I mean you understand that if you add the number of acceptances and the number of denials, that's the total number of applications? And clearly it has absolutely exploded, with the vast majority of them not being ruled meritorious?
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De La Hoz is very much in favor of immigration, but he captures some of the issues with the asylum system here. We should accept more immigrants, but we need to build up not just processing capacity, but housing & gov't services, or the backlash will be awful.
How does bringing up isolated incidents of crime, ceding ground on "the problem at the border", and making it more difficult for people in need to seek asylum do any of those things?
We have a lot of work to do in convincing people that large amounts of immigration isn't bad. But if your view is that huge numbers of people coming across the border and pretty inarguably abusing the asylum backlog is bad (and that's certainly the majority view) then, yes, we have a border problem.
I represent the family of a US citizen (former interpreter for U.S. forces, was vetted and immigrated years ago) who applied for advance parol into the country from Afghanistan 3 years ago to join him after the Kabul government collapsed. Still waiting on a decision.
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Lots of people want to live here. There are even more people coming here to seek a better life. That's bad because?
If the only thing the bill did was make it easier to apply and accelerate approvals, that would be fine. That's not what it does.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2023/02/commentary-arrival-asylum-seekers-unlike-previous-migration-waves/382845/?oref=csny-author-river
How does bringing up isolated incidents of crime, ceding ground on "the problem at the border", and making it more difficult for people in need to seek asylum do any of those things?
Shameful.