Trump told Fox News he plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of Central American asylum-seekers currently trekking through Mexico on their way to the US border. While the tents will be \u201cvery nice<\/em>\u201d \u2013 everything Trump builds is, in his mind \u2013 he hopes that holding the migrants in these tent cities until their asylum hearings will deter additional caravans from making the crossing.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Current practice, derided by Trump and others as \u201ccatch and release<\/em>,\u201d allows asylum-seekers to stay in the US until their hearings, which can be years after they cross the border given the huge backlog of immigration cases.<\/p>\n Many new arrivals, understandably, never turn up for the hearing, having successfully blended into American society and not wishing to risk being turned back to their country of origin. Restricting them to tent cities \u2013 no matter how \u201cnice<\/em>\u201d \u2013 ensures they will be present at their hearing, where \u2013 according to Fox News host Laura Ingraham \u2013 80 percent will be sent home.<\/p>\n While the migrant caravans are still weeks away from the border, Trump has made headlines with his decision to send 5,200 troops and dozens of \u201cair assets<\/em>\u201d to the US-Mexico border as part of \u201cOperation Faithful Patriot<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The military units will stake out 26 crossing points across California, Arizona, and Texas and await the arrival of the two caravans. They join over 2,000 National Guard personnel already guarding the border and will additionally construct fences and anti-vehicles in an effort to \u201charden<\/em>\u201d the border against the migrant \u201cinvasion<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n In a Department of Defense press conference on Monday, US Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan urged migrants fleeing violence to accept Mexico\u2019s offer of asylum and employment authorization within its borders and cease movement northward, admonishing those seeking employment in the US to return to their homes and apply for the proper documentation.<\/p>\n We\u2019re gonna have tents, they\u2019re gonna be very nice, and they\u2019re gonna wait, and if they don\u2019t get asylum, they get out.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Countering charges of fearmongering stemming from his description of Central American migrant caravans as \u201cinvasion,\u201d President Trump shared his plans to house the newcomers in \u201cvery nice\u201d tent cities until their cases are heard. Trump told Fox News he plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of Central American asylum-seekers currently trekking through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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