{"id":384450,"date":"2018-11-10T01:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T00:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/asylum-ban-trump-eliminates-right-to-asylum-for-immigrants-crossing-without-documentation\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T01:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T00:34:54","slug":"asylum-ban-trump-eliminates-right-to-asylum-for-immigrants-crossing-without-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/asylum-ban-trump-eliminates-right-to-asylum-for-immigrants-crossing-without-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum ban: Trump eliminates right to asylum for immigrants crossing without documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Asylum ban: Trump eliminates right to asylum for immigrants crossing without documentation<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>9 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Justice Department issued a joint statement yesterday announcing a new federal regulation barring immigrants who cross the US border without documentation from applying for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is the most significant restriction on immigration in decades, as the vast majority of asylum seekers apply from within the country. It will cause hundreds of thousands of deportations and family separations, and send countless immigrants to their deaths, largely in Mexico and Central America. It is aimed at whipping up racist and xenophobic sentiment against vulnerable workers from Latin America in particular.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Democrats pledge their willingness to \u201ccollaborate\u201d with President Trump. The asylum ban passed unnoticed at Democratic Party rallies held yesterday to oppose the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland called for \u201ca round of applause for AG Sessions,\u201d ignoring the fact that Sessions was the architect of the Trump administration\u2019s anti-immigrant policies.<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u201cnational security,\u201d the DHS-Justice Department statement announcing the asylum ban reads, \u201cOur asylum system is overwhelmed with too many meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Immigrants will only be allowed to apply for asylum if they present themselves at a port of entry, which means they would have to wait in detention for months or years before rigged courts and prosecutors weigh their asylum applications.<\/p>\n<p>Courts near the border have the highest asylum denial rates, meaning many more claims will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/09\/immi-n09.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Asylum ban: Trump eliminates right to asylum for immigrants crossing without documentation By Eric London 9 November 2018 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Justice Department issued a joint statement yesterday announcing a new federal regulation barring immigrants who cross the US border without documentation from applying for asylum. The decision is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}