{"id":24073,"date":"2021-01-26T14:11:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T19:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24073"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T19:36:38","slug":"no-criminal-asylum-bill-introduced-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/01\/26\/no-criminal-asylum-bill-introduced-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Bob Good Introduces the \u201cNo Asylum for Criminals Act\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Freshman Representative Bob Good (R-Va.) introduced H.R. 398, the \u201cNo Asylum for Criminals Act<\/a>,\u201d his first legislative action in office representing Virginia\u2019s 5th Congressional district. This legislation is more important than ever, as the actions of the new Biden administration threaten to strain our broken asylum processes through the rollback of the Trump administration\u2019s border actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

H.R. 398<\/a> bars convicted criminals from receiving asylum protection. This prevents aliens with prior criminal offenses in the United States from receiving asylum and eventually legal permanent residence. The asylum case backlog exceeded 1.3 million cases<\/a> when President Trump left office on January 20. This common-sense legislation would reduce the number of cases by making ineligible for asylum those applicants with prior criminal records – including those convicted of illegal re-entry and unlawful presence. If passed, H.R. 398 could significantly reduce this backlog by removing all aliens with these convictions from future case dockets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans saw firsthand the dangerous loopholes associated with our broken asylum process during the spring and summer of 2019. During fiscal year 2019, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered more than 977,000 aliens at the Southwest border<\/a>. Many of those encountered were seeking asylum, and often went out of their way to locate Border Patrol agents rather than evade them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning in President Obama\u2019s second term,\nhuman traffickers and smugglers discovered that it was significantly easier to\nenter the U.S. through the asylum process than it was through the traditional\nway of sneaking across the border and avoiding Border Patrol long enough to make\nit to the interior of the country. Under catch and release, Border Patrol\nagents would apprehend  aliens, who would\nthen claim that they were seeking asylum protection in the United States. Then\ncomes the release process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under a standard known as \u201ccredible fear,\u201d any alien found by an asylum officer having a \u201ccredible fear\u201d of persecution because of race, religion, sexual orientation, political opposition, or membership in a particular social group<\/em><\/strong> could stay in the country until their case concluded. That process – particularly as the case backlog grew – could take well over two years. During this time, they hold work permits and are, for the most part, considered legally present in the United States. Immigration judges usually dismiss the majority of asylum cases, but our \u201crelease\u201d process means that by that time, aliens have been in the country for years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration <\/em>rightly identified asylum abuse as the primary issue affecting southwest border security, even as the president himself focused largely on continued construction of the border wall. The situation was so bad that even the New York Times – <\/em>hardly a mouthpiece of Trump administration policy – declared that the border was at a \u201cbreaking point<\/a>\u201d in March 2019 following the apprehension of over 76,000 aliens. In hindsight, the crisis continued worsening and in May 2019 CBP apprehended over 144,000 aliens in a single month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Good\u2019s bill addresses a small portion of\nthis much larger problem – preventing convicted criminals from receiving\nasylum. Yet H.R. 398 would actually have an outsized effect on the immigration\ncourt backlog by instantly removing tens of thousands of petitioning aliens who\nhave prior convictions – especially those related to immigration offenses. In\nthat way, Rep. Good\u2019s bill would strengthen our asylum process by ensuring that\nonly those aliens with legitimate asylum claims- rather than returning,\npreviously deported individuals – earn asylum protection from an immigration\njudge able to adjudicate their cases quickly and efficiently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freshman Representative Bob Good (R-Va.) introduced H.R. 398, the \u201cNo Asylum for Criminals Act,\u201d his first legislative action in office representing Virginia\u2019s 5th Congressional district. This legislation is more important than ever, as the actions of the new Biden administration threaten to strain our broken asylum processes through the rollback of the Trump administration\u2019s border<\/p>\n

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