{"id":12708,"date":"2024-01-22T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2024-01-22T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:51:10","slug":"restricting-asylum-will-cause-more-border-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12708","title":{"rendered":"Restricting Asylum Will Cause More Border Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;&#8221;Examining 100 years of Border Patrol apprehensions data finds none of the three U.S. periods with a significant decline in illegal immigration were due to enforcement policy,&#8221; found a May National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nfap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Illegal-Entry-Presidents-and-Effective-Policy.NFAP-Policy-Brief.May2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>. Most recently, after the Biden administration introduced targeted sponsorship programs to benefit Venezuelans and nationals of three other countries, encounters with those groups fell by 95 percent between December 2022 and March 2023,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nfap.com\/research\/new-nfap-policy-brief-illegal-entry-presidents-and-effective-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to NFAP. The Cato Institute, parsing data from Customs and Border Protection and other sources,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/ending-title-42-halved-successful-covert-illegal-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a>&nbsp;that ending the pandemic-era Title 42 order\u2014which allowed federal immigration agents to immediately expel migrants\u2014<em>halved<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;successful covert illegal immigration.&#8221;&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;If none of that is convincing, take it from federal immigration officials. &#8220;It would break the border,&#8221; one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/border-policies-consideration-overwhelm-system-dhs-officials-warn-rcna129557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;NBC News. A former DHS official&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/border-policies-consideration-overwhelm-system-dhs-officials-warn-rcna129557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a>&nbsp;that by mandating the detention of all border crossers, facilities might run out of space, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement might hypothetically &#8220;have to detain families instead of detaining a single adult male accused of rape.&#8221;&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;It&#8217;s hardline measures and a lack of workable legal pathways\u2014not the president&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/10\/17\/us-mexico-border-open-borders-myth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open border policies<\/a>,&#8221; as many critics charge\u2014that have made the border unmanageable. If lawmakers are serious about reducing pressures at the border, they should look to proven methods, such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/policy-analysis\/how-guest-workers-affect-illegal-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expanding<\/a>&nbsp;guest worker programs and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/congress-blog\/4184182-courts-should-uphold-valuable-immigration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private sponsorship schemes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the border discussions stand, these ideas aren&#8217;t on the table. Instead, decision makers in Washington have proven all too willing to embrace what could be long-lasting\u2014and what would certainly be costly, inhumane, and ineffective\u2014changes to the immigration system.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/15\/restricting-asylum-will-cause-more-border-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/15\/restricting-asylum-will-cause-more-border-chaos\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;Examining 100 years of Border Patrol apprehensions data finds none of the three U.S. periods with a significant decline in illegal immigration were due to enforcement policy,&#8221; found a May National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) report. Most recently, after the Biden administration introduced targeted sponsorship programs to benefit Venezuelans and nationals of three other countries, encounters with those groups fell by 95 percent between December 2022 and March 2023, according to NFAP. The Cato Institute, parsing data from Customs and Border Protection and other sources, found that ending the pandemic-era Title 42 order\u2014which allowed federal immigration agents to immediately expel migrants\u2014halved &#8220;successful covert illegal immigration.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If none of that is convincing, take it from federal immigration officials. &#8220;It would break the border,&#8221; one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told NBC News. A former DHS official warned that by mandating the detention of all border crossers, facilities might run out of space, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement might hypothetically &#8220;have to detain families instead of detaining a single adult male accused of rape.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hardline measures and a lack of workable legal pathways\u2014not the president&#8217;s &#8220;open border policies,&#8221; as many critics charge\u2014that have made the border unmanageable. If lawmakers are serious about reducing pressures at the border, they should look to proven methods, such as expanding guest worker programs and private sponsorship schemes.<br \/>\nAs the border discussions stand, these ideas aren&#8217;t on the table. Instead, decision makers in Washington have proven all too willing to embrace what could be long-lasting\u2014and what would certainly be costly, inhumane, and ineffective\u2014changes to the immigration system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/15\/restricting-asylum-will-cause-more-border-chaos\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[268,449,26,493,25],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asylum","tag-border","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12709,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}