Scandal-plagued Border Patrol would be in charge of asylum interviews if Stephen Miller gets his way
Source: Think Progress
Newly reported internal emails shed light on the next grim maneuver in the Trump team's nativist campaign to slam the door on non-white immigrants.
Alan Pyke
Jul 30, 2019, 1:37 pm
White House operative Stephen Miller is maneuvering to further sabotage the asylum process by replacing highly trained career staff with border cops at a crucial early stage.
The scheme would shift responsibility for initial “credible fear interviews” with asylum-seekers away from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency where it’s rested for years. Miller is eager to replace USCIS’s professional asylum interviewers with Border Patrol officers, emails reported by NBC News suggest.
The credible fear interview process has long been a target for President Donald Trump’s staffers seeking to radically restrict Latinx immigration. Miller in particular is seen as a prime mover behind Trump’s efforts to restrict legal immigration as well as flows of undocumented people — including support for work-visa rule changes that experts say would favor white Europeans.
The laws and legal standards underlying those interviews err on the side of asylum-seekers by design, because passing a credible fear check only ensures that the asylum-seeker will get to go before an immigration judge. These first-round interviews are intended to be a modest screening rather than a hard barrier, in part because the final determination of an asylum case is viewed as so sophisticated as to require a courtroom adjudication.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/stephen-miller-plots-to-put-scandal-plagued-border-patrol-in-charge-of-asylum-interviews-69182bd5ade0/
And if anyone doesn't think he wants a police state.........................every wanna be defacto fascist has used this police state tactic through out history..............................this asshole is menace to society..............literally...................
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