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Demovictory9

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Tue Apr 30, 2019, 01:51 AM Apr 2019

Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-issues-memo-calling-for-changes-to-handling-of-asylum-cases/2019/04/29/df41b5f2-6adb-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html?utm_term=.eaeb0441de20

President Trump ordered major changes to U.S. asylum policies in a White House memo released Monday night, including measures that would charge fees to those applying for humanitarian refuge in the United States.

Trump’s directive also calls for tightening asylum rules by banning anyone who crosses the border illegally from obtaining a work permit, and giving courts a 180-day limit to adjudicate asylum claims that now routinely take years to process because of a ballooning case backlog.

The order, announced in a presidential memorandum, comes as the president is seeking to mobilize his supporters with a focus on illegal immigration ahead of his 2020 reelection campaign.

“If the Democrats don’t give us the votes to change our weak, ineffective and dangerous Immigration Laws, we must fight hard for these votes in the 2020 Election!” the president wrote on Twitter after the White House published his order.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-issues-memo-calling-for-changes-to-handling-of-asylum-cases/2019/04/29/df41b5f2-6adb-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html?utm_term=.eaeb0441de20
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Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge (Original Post) Demovictory9 Apr 2019 OP
How in the US does one idiot get to change our laws? sinkingfeeling Apr 2019 #1
He never passes up a scam UTUSN Apr 2019 #2
trump takes America down another notch. spanone Apr 2019 #3
Please make checks out to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 #4
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