I think the idea is to treat people who enter the country illegally as though they were trying to enter legally at the border.
If you are denied asylum at the border, you just can't come in. You don't get to lawyer up, and get a number of hearings/appeals.
If you try to enter the country at the border and you're not allowed, you just can't come in. They don't let you in, give you a court date, and then a request to deport, and then maybe they'll come and grab you in a few years or decades. And then maybe you'll be deported.
The better option for a lot of people is to enter the country illegally. I think preferring people come in legally is fairly universal. You can want to change the process or increase/decrease the number of legal immigrants, but doing it above board is a no-brainer. And that's just never going to happen with the way the system is setup now. It's certainly not going to happen if coming in illegally is the better choice.
This is a half-ass idea by Trump. But the idea of treating people entering illegally the same treatment that they would have gotten at the border has some merit at the root of it.
If you are denied asylum at the border, you just can't come in. You don't get to lawyer up, and get a number of hearings/appeals.
If you try to enter the country at the border and you're not allowed, you just can't come in. They don't let you in, give you a court date, and then a request to deport, and then maybe they'll come and grab you in a few years or decades. And then maybe you'll be deported.
The better option for a lot of people is to enter the country illegally. I think preferring people come in legally is fairly universal. You can want to change the process or increase/decrease the number of legal immigrants, but doing it above board is a no-brainer. And that's just never going to happen with the way the system is setup now. It's certainly not going to happen if coming in illegally is the better choice.
This is a half-ass idea by Trump. But the idea of treating people entering illegally the same treatment that they would have gotten at the border has some merit at the root of it.
