In recent years illegal alien advocates have promoted bogus asylum claim as a means to allow illegal aliens to settle in our county. Under existing law, we must process these claims, even as their rising numbers threaten to overwhelm our capacity to enforce immigration law.
Todd Bendsman, senior security advisor of the Center for Immigration Studies, says this situation must change. In book published this month, Bensman states:
“The United States must withdraw from the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees treaty that President Lyndon Johnson signed in 1968 and rebuild the U.S. asylum system that treaty obliged after Congress incorporated its provisions in the Refugee Act of 1980.
“[N]o other enticement exerts a greater gravitational pull on illegal immigration than does the easy ability to defraud the American asylum law as it now stands to achieve long-term entry. The asylum system must be torn down and rebuilt because it directly nullifies most congressionally approved immigration statutes that should, if actually executed faithfully, staunch mass illegal immigration.”
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