King Solomon, Immoral Voters, or Legislators? Illegal Immigration, Post Three — reblogged

That passage is still wrong. Until you are granted asylum, either by the Immigration Office or in court, you are neither allowed to work, nor eligible to any public funds. You will have to make ends meet either by funds of your own or the charity of others, in large numbers of cases for years on end.

That California “law” about healthcare, that according to you has been passed, has only been introduced this January to the California Assembly, not passed .

Here’s some more food for thought.

US: Catch-22 for Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2013, may or may not be outdated)

The US government stands alone among developed countries in denying asylum seekers both employment authorization and governmental assistance …
[…]
Khaled M., an asylum seeker from Egypt, said he was unable to work or receive public assistance for his family for nearly five years. They struggled to find food and shelter.

There were nights when the family had to sleep in a bus station or airport. During the hottest week of one summer, Khaled, his wife, and two small children were evicted and found themselves on the streets without shelter or food.

Josiane F., a 27-year-old rape survivor from Rwanda, said that not being able to work year after year “kills you emotionally.” She said, “Just sitting on your own, one year, two years, three years, five, doing nothing, just sitting there, kills you. I was so depressed.”

New immigration policy leaves asylum seekers in the lurch (The Hill, Feb 2018)

The backlog at the asylum offices, for affirmative asylum seekers, includes around 311,000 individuals. Many of these asylum seekers have now been waiting one, two, three, four, and even five years for an interview with an asylum officer.

Until recently, asylum interviews were scheduled chronologically according to when the asylum applicant submitted their application; the wait was far too long, but there was an end in sight. On January 29, however, the Asylum Office issued a new memo explaining that they will now prioritize adjudication of the most recently-filed applications, those pending 21 days or less. While this may be a relief for asylum seekers who have just filed their applications or are about to file, for the more than 300,000 asylum seekers who have already filed and patiently waited in line, the government has effectively constructed a wall blocking adjudication of their applications and leaving them in legal limbo indefinitely.

If you really are interested in reducing the number of asylum seekers in the US, maybe you better invest money in staffing immigration offices and courts, to bring down the waiting times for the final decision to the intended 6 months.

More fun facts:
– about 10,000 people are granted asylum in court per year in the US
– During financial years FY2012 through FY2017 Chinese were the largest group of applicants at about 30,000 cases.
– Denial rates for Mexicans and Haitians are in the high 80% range, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have denial rates of 75% to 80% and your personal favorite, India, saw a denial rates of 42%.

You may or may not want to do a major rewrite. If you do, consider what is more in the interest of your readers:
a) Having to come back to your articles to check again and again, whether or not they have been edited, and in the case of the latter go on a wild goose chase to track down the changes
b) Being told straight away what was wrong in a new post, which will (hopefully) catch their attention the same way your disinformation did.

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