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December 17, 2009
Feds Revising Asylum Detention Policies The Associated Press reported this morning that the Obama Administration said Wednesday it will stop detaining asylum seekers who have a credible fear of persecution in their home countries and that foreigners who arrive at a port of entry and are found to have a credible fear will automatically be considered for release into the U.S. Jack Martin, Director of Special Projects at FAIR, commented that this new policy appears to be reverting to the status quo. Previously, asylum claims at ports of entry routinely led to release and a work permit and that was the last the immigration authorities saw of the alien. The arriving asylum claimants would routinely flush the ID documents that they were traveling on so that there was no way to check their identity. It is an irresponsible policy because it rewards illegal entry and it is dangerous because there is no check on the identity of the traveler. This reversion to turnstile admission of asylum claimants is basically a green light to Al Qaeda. FAIR President Dan Stein says that "This is PRECISELY the policy that led to (allowed) the 1993 Trade Center bombing!!!" |
