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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The administration can do what Europe started doing in Africa and set up asylum hearing centers in Mexico, so people can be screened without having to enter the US first. It would of course have to involve Mexico's cooperation but it might be more productive than threatening to make them pay for the wall.[/quote]
Mexico has no incentive to curb the flood of drugs or sex trafficking. Cartels are making Mexican politicians very rich. [/quote]

Question....

When seeking asylum, isn't it incumbent upon the seeker of asylum to request it in the first country in which he or she arrives?  [/quote]

Did any of you follow the Kirstjen Nielsen hearing with Congress a few days ago?  Wow.  Scathing.  Border Patrol was breaking laws right and left and it was witnessed by members of Congress.  Refugees are supposed to go to ports of entry and on getting to the US side, request asylum, and were doing exactly that - and that is 100% legal - yet they were being treated like as if they had illegally snuck in, they were being treated as though they had not requested asylum, et cetera.  And people have witnessed it first hand.  And let's not even get into all of the other scathing items that came up in that [b]hearing about numerous kids dying in ICE custody[/b], being raped while in ICE custody, et cetera.  Truly disgusting.  No matter how you feel about the wall, DHS is completely mishandling all of it and frankly Nielsen needs to step down, along with many others in the CBP chain of command.[/quote]

What I find disgusting is people like you blaming ICE/Border Patrol for those who die in custody.  Do you have any idea how sick many of these people are by the time they wind up at our border?  Many are at death's door - and then when they inevitably collapse and die in custody, people like you actually have the gall to blame our agents.  No mention of the horrendous journey they were on to begin with - and which they chose to drag their children along as well.

[b]For U.S. border agents, the strain has grown more acute, as they struggle to care for children using an enforcement infrastructure made in an era when the vast majority of migrants were Mexican adults who could be quickly booked and deported. The Central American families — called “give-ups” because they surrender instead of trying to sneak in — have left frustrated U.S. agents viewing their own role as little more than the facilitators for the last stage of the migrants’ journey. They are rescuing families with small children from river currents, irrigation canals, medical emergencies and freezing winter temperatures.
“We’re so cold,” said Marlen Moya, who had left Guatemala with her sons six weeks earlier and crossed the Rio Grande with the group of 64.
Moya’s son Gael, 6, was sick with a fever and moaning, his face streaked with tears. “In Juarez, we were shoved and yelled at,” she said, looking back across the river to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. “We slept on the street.”  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/03/04/feature/after-cold-busy-month-at-border-illegal-crossings-expected-to-surge-again/?utm_term=.804c59cdfedc
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