Sudden Flood of Asylum Requests at U.S./Mexico Border

What is the impact of this on CIR?



At the Otay crossing near the San Diego border last Monday, about 200 people
coming from Mexico gained entry to the United States all using the same key
phrase; they claimed they had a 'credible fear' of drug cartels. According
to KSAZ FoxPheonix:

So many were doing this that they had to close down the processing
center and move the overflow by vans to another station.

"They are being told if they come across the border, when they come up
to the border and they say certain words, they will be allowed into the
country," said a person who did not want to be identified on camera. "We
are being overwhelmed."

This apparent new shift in tactics to enter the United States comes at a
time when the Associated Press is reporting a spike in the number of asylum
requests in the past few years:

According draft testimony for USCIS Associate Director Joseph Langlois
that was to be submitted for a congressional hearing on asylum requests last
month, USCIS received more than 19,119 asylum requests through the end of
May. The agency anticipates receiving more than 28,600 by the end of the
fiscal year.

According to the testimony, during the 2009 budget year the agency
received just 5,369 such requests.

However, this new phenomenon is out of all proportion, even with this spike.
To put those numbers in perspective with the 200 people making asylum
requests on one day at one border crossing, 200 people a day equals 73,000
people a year -- close to three times the total number received all year, at
all border crossings.

KSAZ reports the new tactic could easily overwhelm the immigration system,
quoting immigration attorney and former immigration official Pete Nunez:

"To make our system even more ridiculous than it has been in the past,"
he adds. "There are no detention facilities for families, so the family
would have to be split up. We don't want to split families up, so we end up
releasing people out into the community on bond, on bail."
Nunez says, "It's a huge loophole."

"There has to be a policy change, something implemented, an emergency
implementation that will stop this, or otherwise we will have thousands
coming in."

The goal, however, may be to overwhelm the system. This apparent new tactic
comes on the heels of widely publicized activism by a group called 'The
Dream 9' who also used a claim of asylum to gain re-entry to the country. As
leftist organization Colorlines reported last week:

All nine of the activists have now established credible fear, a step
toward an asylum hearing. Supporters are now hoping the Dream 9 will be
eligible for parole, which would allow them to return to the United States
until their asylum hearing dates.

This connection between the 'Dream 9' and the tactic of asylum was made by
Spanish-language news source La Opiniòn. They report (translation by Google
Translation) in an article entitled El asilo se volvió un sueño (in
English: The asylum becomes a dream):

Following the release of nine Dreamers prisoners in Arizona, after a
protest at the border, others have taken the path of asylum as a way to
solve their deportation.

Media reports in San Diego are reporting that "hundreds of foreigners
are trying to enter the country in the same way" and even that immigrants
are being taught to use key phrases that they can stay in the country.

Reports tell of cases in the Port of Entry Otay Mesa, where 199 people
have argued a 'credible fear "to the drug cartels in Mexico.

And the validation of Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) of the
status of "credible fear", which allowed young people to stay at home and
return to their families seems to have generated more of a headache for
Immigration.

La Opiniòn goes on to quote Marshall Fitz, the immigration policy expert
the liberal Center for American Progress, who points out that many would not
qualify and it's not a good 'long term strategy' for those attempting to
cross the border.

i swear those dreamers had to do with this! this is the reason why i hate most of you.

and by most of you, i mean the so called activists that do retarded shit, gives us all a bad name.

All thanks to the Dream9...if I can't adjust, I will file for asylum.

If they fear the cartels that means they are involved with them. My family over there tells me that they don't mess with you if you are innocent. Them dumbasses called dream 9 are just making things worst. They think they are entitled to everything.

One of those Rush Limbaugh type people was talking about this and using it to argue against CIR. "these people are coached to say certain keywords".

I hope your asylum fails Dream 9. You have hurt the cause.

They should had not allowed them back in the USA. I still don't get why people wants the government to bring back all the deported people to the USA. I swear to god that is one of dumbest thing I have ever seen. If they are deported than that's it game over.

I called this. Did i NOT called this out? Oh well

Whatever it takes yo,time for amnesty.

I have credible fear of gang bangers cutting people in pieces back in honduras, if you go there with nice shoes - they kill you for it, the murder capital of the world.. Asylum sounds good to me..

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