🧵 1. Those who enter the U.S. without papers and apply for asylum are supposed to be detained until their claims can be adjudicated. That doesn’t happen under Biden.
2. Biden gives them a plane ticket, a work permit, and a mild suggestion that they show up for their immigration hearing, which might take place sometime in the mid-2030s.
3. This works out nicely for the drug cartels, who make billions of dollars smuggling millions humans into the United States, turning them into indentured servants and in some cases subjecting them to sex slavery. It’s really bad for everyone outside the drug-cartel world.
4. Biden speaks as though he’s the victim of our asylum laws—suggesting that he has no choice but to handle asylum applications this way, and that he has no power to restrict the flow of illegal immigrants without a change in law. That’s simply not true.
5. The president and DHS secretary have full discretion to stop processing asylum applications whenever they choose, as the asylum laws say they “may” grant asylum applications when the conditions are met. There is no “shall” language.
6. They should certainly stop processing those applications whenever they run out of bed space or timely processing capacity.
7. Asylum laws are not a border-specific suicide pact. We should stop thinking of them as if they were.
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