Our asylum laws have long been a millstone around the neck of our immigration system — dragging down any efforts to curtail illegal immigration. As my colleague Mark Krikorian has written:
Asylum … represents a profound surrender of sovereignty, a limitation on the American people’s ability to decide which foreigners get to come here from abroad.
An unprecedented migration wave … has turned the Refugee Convention … [in]to a crowbar used by the post-national Left to pry open the borders of democratic societies contrary to the will of their citizens.
Krikorian noted at the beginning of the Biden border crisis that “Asylum is driving the current border crisis, with illegal aliens, coached by smugglers and U.S. immigration lawyers, turning themselves in and claiming a fear of return, thus initiating the asylum process.” He has explained that “the goal of illegal immigrants is not so much to receive asylum ... but rather merely to apply ... and then go about your new life secure in the knowledge your case may not be heard for years, and even if you are rejected, you are unlikely to be removed”. (Emphasis added.)
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