On Tuesday, the Department of Justice teamed up with Homeland Security to smack down hard on criminals trying to enter America through a major rule change. One of the best ways to ease the burden on officials trying to sort legitimate claims for asylum from the Obama era free pass seekers is to weed out the criminals before they get in line.
If you ever got busted for a dime bag of happy grass, you can forget about claiming U.S. asylum.
Final rule to restrict ‘criminal aliens’
Effective a month from Wednesday, the new joint rule will prevent convicted felons, drunk drivers, wife beaters, gang members and other lowlifes from receiving asylum in this country. The Department of Justice got together with the Department of Homeland Security to hammer out the final regulations “to prevent certain categories of criminal aliens from obtaining asylum in the United States.”
In their statement to the press about the new rule, officials of the two departments explained that Asylum is “is a discretionary immigration benefit.” In general any eligible alien can apply, either if they are already here or just now arriving.
Congress already had laws to ban certain “categories of aliens from receiving asylum.” Now there are more.
Besides the so-called “statutory bars,” Congress delegated authority “to the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority to establish by regulation additional bars on asylum eligibility.” They can make any rule they want that’s “consistent with the asylum statute.”
Immigration and Nationality Act
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, congress gave the department heads the power to establish “any other conditions or limitations on the consideration of an application for asylum,” that are consistent with the INA. That is the basis for the latest rule change.
The Trump administration wants to make sure that “criminal aliens cannot obtain this discretionary benefit.”
To that effect, “the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security have exercised their regulatory authority to limit eligibility for asylum for aliens who have engaged in specified categories of criminal behavior.”
Under the latest version of the rule, not only killers and rapists kept out, anyone with any MS-13 tats should forget about even trying. Domestic abusers and drug addicts aren’t welcome either.
The release spells out that, the new rule applies to “aliens who are convicted of a felony.” Also anyone even charged with “Alien Smuggling or Harboring Illegal Reentry.” Any crime “involving criminal street gang activity” will get you blacklisted.
So will “certain federal, state, tribal, or local offenses concerning the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant, domestic violence offense, or who are found by an adjudicator to have engaged in acts of battery or extreme cruelty in a domestic context, even if no conviction resulted.”
Finally, Uncle Sam doesn’t like frauds and cheats. “false identification, the unlawful receipt of public benefits, or possession or trafficking of a controlled substance” will keep you on the outside looking in.
About time! The lives that would have been saved, if this had been the Policy from the beginning.
I agree. It makes me mad to think about how stupid and lack of common sense, politics has been in the past. Finally, we have a smart President that knows how to get things done.
Now if we could just build up another country, where the people would want to go, instead of coming here.
the doj is corrupt along with the fbi and the judicial system
I agree with almost all of this but I do take exception to this “wife beaters” I have worked with many domestic violence victims and one thing I have found, women are at least as abusive are men so this should read domestic abusers.
One major exception regarding domestic violence is that women have a couple thousand shelters while men have less than a dozen nation wide. We can thank Joe Biden for this as he authored the Violence Against Women Act
Please note that although the feminist claim the VAWA is gender neutral, I urge you to read for yourself and decide for yourself if it is indeed gender neutral
Also please note who had a major part in writing this act:
Senator Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat who once chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, first proposed the VAWA in 1990. The bill was a collaborative effort, with key roles played by Victoria Nourse, then Senate Judiciary Committee counsel, and Sally Goldfarb, then NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (NOW LDEF) staff attorney. A broad range of feminist groups offered input and support, and NOW LDEF’s Pat Reuss lent lobbying expertise.
Radical feminist wrote this act. Would not this be like asking the klu klux klan to write laws concerning racial relations?
I ask you to substitute the word “women” in any of this with Black, Asians, or any other group. Would it be fair? Would it be Just? Would it stand the test of the Equal protection clause of the
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
What is more interesting is this:
Who do you think made this statement?
It may surprise you when you find out.
“In my house, being raised with a sister and three brothers, there
was an absolute – it was a nuclear sanction, if under any
circumstances, for any reason, no matter how justified, even self-
defense – if you ever touched your sister, not figuratively,
literally. My sister, who is my best friend, my campaign manager, my
confidante, grew up with absolute impunity in our household. And I
have the bruises to prove it. I mean that sincerely. I am not
exaggerating when I say that.”
“And I have the bruises to prove it.”
The author? None other then Senator Joe Biden…the originator of
the Violence Against Women Act. Umm wouldn’t ya think he would
know better then most that women can be violent too???
Without looking at both sides and without holding women responsible as we do men, we only make it more dangerous for everyone.
That is leaving out a lot of democrat voters. The liberals are not going to like it.
Thank You President Trump for making the safety of my countrymen, my loved ones & myself a priority. You are indeed one of the Greatest leaders & Presidents this country has ever experienced.
Biden already said if he is in office he will eliminate borders, ICE, CBP and all will be allowed in even of they currently are denied entry. These previously denied entry under Trump will be returned to the US at taxpayer expense.
Make them apply at the Consulate where they are vetted in their homeland. If approved they may go to the point of entry for further processing. If not approved at the Consulate, no go.