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Friday, May 11, 2018

DHS Secretary Nielsen Begs Asylum-Seekers: ‘Please Come to Ports of Entry’

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen begged foreign asylum-seekers to “please come to the ports of entry” on the U.S.-Mexico border during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.

Nielsen pleaded with asylum-seekers to enter the U.S. by using the ports of entry to legally come and claim asylum, despite President Trump’s concerns over the nation’s weak and often abused asylum laws.

Nielsen told asylum-seekers during the hearing:

NIELSEN: If you are fleeing and you have a need to come to the United States, please come to the ports of entry. You — you — you know, we will process your claim there. But if you come across the border illegally, you’ve — you’ve broken the law and we have to prosecute. It’s the only way to keep our border — to have a border.

So if you have a claim, you have children, you’re concerned for your life, go to a port of entry. You’ll be processed. We have asylum laws. But when you break the law, that’s where it gets very difficult because we have to prosecute those who break the law.

As Breitbart News reported, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan described Nielsen’s comments telling foreign nationals to use the ports of entry as a “colossal mistake.”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We need to put out some barrels of "Jim Jones Kool Aid" for these folks at the checkpoints.

Anonymous said...

In a recent poll of working people in the US, 8 out of 10 don't want new immigrants, refugees, illegals, or Dreamers in the country.
Why would anyone want to come to a place where you are not wanted and hated? Must be all the free stuff the government give them that working folks pay for!