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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: 'Seeking asylum is a legal right': Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker 'Seeking asylum is a legal right': Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker causes controversy by helping immigrants in Mexico return to the US after they were deported as he is slammed for 'breaking the law' Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker has caused controversy by crossing into Mexico to escort deported asylum seekers back over the border. The Senator, 50, visited the Mexican border city Ciudad Juarez from El Paso, Texas, to help five women who had previously been sent back to Mexico. He was joined by immigration rights attorneys and advocates to get the women, who are fleeing domestic violence, admitted back into the US. However, he has been accused of breaking the law by critics who claimed he violated legislation which prohibits 'bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens into the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry'. His trip across the border comes after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited a detention center this week and said that illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers were 'drinking out of toilets' – a claim an agency official quickly denied. Several Democratic leadership candidates have made visits to detention centers in recent weeks, including Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke Kirsten Gillibrand, Pete Buttigieg, and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. Booker tweeted about his visit to Mexico, with photos and video of him escorting the immigrants shared on social media. He said: 'Today I crossed the US-Mexico border in El Paso with @fams2gether and @LasAmericasIAC to help five women present themselves for asylum. 'We helped the women present themselves for asylum. @LasAmericasIAC will monitor them throughout the process to ensure they aren't sent back. 'Seeking asylum is a legal right': Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker causes controversy by helping immigrants in Mexico return to the US after they were deported as he is slammed for 'breaking the law' July 04, 2019 News Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker has caused controversy by crossing into Mexico to escort deported asylum seekers back over the border. The Senator, 50, visited the Mexican border city Ciudad Juarez from El Paso, Texas, to help five women who had previously been sent back to Mexico. He was joined by immigration rights attorneys and advocates to get the women, who are fleeing domestic violence, admitted back into the US. However, he has been accused of breaking the law by critics who claimed he violated legislation which prohibits 'bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens into the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry'. His trip across the border comes after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited a detention center this week and said that illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers were 'drinking out of toilets' – a claim an agency official quickly denied. Several Democratic leadership candidates have made visits to detention centers in recent weeks, including Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke Kirsten Gillibrand, Pete Buttigieg, and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. Booker tweeted about his visit to Mexico, with photos and video of him escorting the immigrants shared on social media. He said: 'Today I crossed the US-Mexico border in El Paso with @fams2gether and @LasAmericasIAC to help five women present themselves for asylum. 'We helped the women present themselves for asylum. @LasAmericasIAC will monitor them throughout the process to ensure they aren't sent back. Embedded video Andrew Kimmel ✔ @andrewkimmel HAPPENING NOW: @SenBooker escorts victims of abuse seeking asylum across the Santa Fe bridge from Juárez, Mexico to El Paso, TX. The asylum seekers were sent back to Mexico under the MPP program. They have asked for their identities to be protected. @CoryBooker 'But it shouldn't take a member of Congress to help people cross into our country. Seeking asylum is a legal right.' Booker said the women had been abused and lived in squalid conditions with inadequate food, water and medical attention while detained in the US. He was slammed online for escorting the asylum seekers over the border. One person wrote: 'You should be charged with treason. Certainly won't get my vote.' Another said: 'So a sitting US Senator openly admits to breaking the law. I would say kiss your prospects goodbye but your poll numbers already show that.' A third added: 'When is the last time you went to a soup kitchen here in the US?' Linda Rivas, an attorney with the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, said that the women Booker helped were victims of sexual assault and labor trafficking in Juarez. They appeared to have been sent back to Mexico under the Trump administration's 'Migrant Protection Protocols'. MPP sends asylum-seekers back to Mexico while their applications for asylum are pending. It comes after Booker released a new immigration plan on Tuesday that would 'virtually eliminate immigration detention.' If the New Jersey Senator was elected, he vowed to severely limit the time unaccompanied children are able to be held in custody. It would also put an end to for-profit detention facilities. The 2020 Democrat contender's campaign said the plan would phase out government contracts with private prison operators over the course of three years, shut down facilities that do not meet high standards of care and reform the bond system in immigration court by prioritizing liberty over detention for immigrants. Instead of detaining the illegal border-crossers, Booker's plan proposes they be monitored using 'alternatives to detention,' like some of the methods already being utilized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE uses ankle bracelets, bonds and in-person and phone check-ins. There are, however, exceptions, and immigrants who pose a risk to public safety or are deemed a flight risk would still be detained as part of Booker's plan. Booker, 50, is one of the 25 Democrats seeking the party's nomination to take on Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. The issue of immigration and detention centers has been high on the political agenda in recent weeks. Speaking outside a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, firebrand Congresswoman AOC raged this week: 'There's abuse in these facilities.' 'This was them knowing a congressional visit was coming. This was CBP on their best behavior. Telling people to drink out of the toilet.' AOC said she 'forced' herself into a cell with detainees and one woman told her officers were waging 'psychological warfare' and that the agents often called them 'wh***s.' The 29-year-old congresswoman claimed officers laughed at migrants drinking out of toilets. The inflammatory statements – including the suggestion that she witnessed toilet-drinking herself – came hours after a news story established the existence of a private Facebook group where current and former CBP agents distributed lewd illustrations of the Democratic congresswoman from New York. She was later criticized by members of the Jewish community after doubling down on her description of migrant detention facilities as concentration camps. Writer and Israel activist Emily Schrader tweeted: 'If you can’t make your point without diminishing the memory of the Holocaust you need to re-examine your claim.' Joel M. Petlin, who contributes to the Jewish publication The Forward, tweeted in reply to AOC: As you quadruple down on the Holocaust references, please know that actual survivors of Nazi Concentration Camps are begging you to stop & instead tour a real one in Poland. I respect your passion to help those at the border but why are you not respecting Holocaust survivors?' In reply to Petlin, user @MicheleSabra, who calls herself a 'proud Israeli American doing my part to stop antisemitism,' tweeted: 'Because she doesn’t care about either one. Its all one big AOC show.' Focus on detention centers increased last week after a desperate father, and his 23-month-old daughter, drowned when attempting to swim across the Rio Grande to gain illegal entry into the US. Trump has made clamping down on illegal immigration the centerpiece of his domestic policy agenda, rallying against Central American migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. Some, including a handful of candidates, blame the current administration’s policies and crack downs for the two Salvadoran deaths, claiming they were desperate to step foot in the US. But U.S. agencies have struggled to keep up with a surge of Central American families arriving at the border, straining resources and severely overcrowding facilities. Poster Comment: Video at source. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Horse (#0)
Seeking it may be a right. However being granted asylum should never be automatic.
"Call Me Ishmael" -Ishmael, A character from the book "Moby Dick" 1851. "Call Me Fishmeal" -Osama Bin Laden, A character created by the CIA, and the world's Hide And Seek Champion 2001-2011. -Tommythemadartist
Seeking asylum is acceptable. Economic migration for ps4s and buffalo wild wings is not a right.
______________________________________ Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
This ship is sinking with all the gimme-dat's and you owes me.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
There is a war on for your mind. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Domestic violence is not grounds for asylum here. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I knew a couple in Chicago. I was visiting them at their place. She said something to him and he punched her out and knocked her down. Then she directed a comment to me trying to get me to intervene. I said, "I'm not getting in the middle of this one." He is dead a long time now. He got drunk in Wisconsin and went off the road and hit a tree and killed himself. They had 2 kids and I bet they grew up to be delinquents. Lucky to recall this because of meningitis. But you mentioning domestic violence triggered the memory. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Comments @ freerepublic.com: "Cut off employment and benefits and millions will go home on their own." "walk into 1000 businesses employing illegals over the next couple months and fine them $1000 a head with the promise of $10,000 a head next time and watch them leave on their own" ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
America needs a restraining order against Democrats to protect our nation and rightful form of government from their destructive lawlessness. We have legal immigration limits here, not Open Borders for unlimited "asylum" posers of the world to move into our country because they don't want to stay in their own.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I totally agree. If the Dims do impeach Trump, he would never be convicted by a Republican controlled Senate. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"Cut off employment and benefits and millions will go home on their own." "walk into 1000 businesses employing illegals over the next couple months and fine them $1000 a head with the promise of $10,000 a head next time and watch them leave on their own" YouTube comments: "some come and take low paying jobs, but we need those jobs too; the lower paying jobs are intended for our children coming of age; to legally work. They collect a wage that is better than most live at home allowances, and they learn crucial work ethics needed for, later in life. [Illegal aliens] head right for jobs not protected by a license or college degree" "[revoke] business licenses for companies that hire illegals" ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I was talking with the local butcher. I told him my Conservator paid those unlawful and corrupt federal income taxes. She used the CPA on the square. I had 2 liens against me over in the town I used to live when I drove the big truck. I had Lexington Law, credit repairs lawyers from Salt Lake City, challenge them. They could not prove I owed the tax and were forced to withdraw the liens. Now my Credit Karma says "0" for Public Filings when it used to say "2". And she never even tried to call over to the Recorder where I used to live to find out if the have, or did have, liens in my name from the IRS. If she would have called she would have found that I had them but they were withdrawn. I told the local butcher that if he failed to file his taxes they would raid his shop and close him down, and then seize his bank accounts, both business and personal. But as a private citizen who is not engaged in commerce, I do not lawfully owe the tax. That is the way the law reads. But the IRS collects it thru intimidation, coercion and threat of lien, levy and confiscation. Joe Bannister, former IRS-CID agent, they carry guns, asked his supervisor to show him the law that says the average citizen owes the tax. His supervisor refused. Joe resigned and started working against them. Unfortunately, the State revoked his license as a CPA and now he must work as a book keeper. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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