SAN DIEGO – One of President Donald Trump’s top priorities on immigration, if he wins a second term, he will use agreements with Central American governments as a model for countries around the world to claim asylum for people seeking asylum in the United States. The adviser said Friday.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s chief architect for immigration policies, said the agreement would “help prevent asylum fraud, asylum purchases and asylum abuse globally.”
Miller, in an interview with the Associated Press, also predicted widespread aggression against so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions that would limit cooperation with federal immigration officials, saying the administration would use its “full power, resources and authority.” He vowed to make more efforts toward legal immigration “on merit.”
The “Asylum Cooperation Agreement” signed by the administration in 2019, which allows asylum seekers from El Salvador and Honduras to travel to Guatemala for asylum, denied the opportunity to apply in the US
From November to March, when coronavirus epidemics halted flights to Guatemala, there were only 209 asylum seekers from 939 Honduras and El Salvadorans. Almost all of those who became known as “Exile with Layover” went home.
Many of Trump’s policies, such as the dramatic change in the U.S. immigration system, have led to bilateral agreements being challenged in court. Critics have noted that asylum-seekers are sent to countries with low infrastructure to handle high levels of violence and poverty and asylum claims.
The coronavirus struck before the flights to Honduras and El Salvador began and stopped the launches.
Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have focused heavily on immigration in their 2020 campaigns, despite enthusiastic exchanges during Thursday’s debate, court-appointed lawyers were asked by news of the inability to find the parents of 545 children separated from their families. In the Trump administration.
Trump has not yet outlined a second term immigration priority, although he has made an open presentation in an effort to revoke the constitutional right to citizenship for anyone born in the United States.
Biden has promised to reverse Trump’s policies, not many but all. With the epidemic and other issues, it is not clear how hungry Biden must have been for all the work Trump has done.
Biden campaign spokesman Mike Gwynn, responding to Miller’s remarks, highlighted how far candidates are on immigration.
“We are going to win this election so that people like Stephen Miller do not have the opportunity to write more American policies that insult our American values.” Gwyn said. “Unlike Trump, Vice President Biden knows that immigrants make America stronger and help build this country, and as president he will make sure he continues to play the important role he has played throughout our history: enriching our communities, our Will strengthen the economy, and serve our nation in uniform. “
Biden will legally introduce the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to illegally provide citizenship for the country’s people, protect youth from deportation, and “restore America’s historic historic commitment” to refugees and asylum seekers. , Gwyn said.
Biden, on his campaign website, is silent on the asylum agreements struck by the Trump administration with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador last year but says it will end “harmful” policies, including Trump’s efforts to keep asylum seekers in Mexico waiting. U.S. For a hearing in immigration court.
Administration officials have discussed creating a global web of monopolies for countries in Africa and Asia to meet with Central American governments. Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were under heavy pressure from the U.S. to release the culprit last year, with Trump threatening to cut off international aid.
Such agreements could be proposed to potential countries that send large numbers of asylum seekers to the United States, such as Cameroon or China.
Trump, who made immigration a signature issue in his 2016 campaign, has introduced a flurry of rules in recent months, which are expected to be finalized soon after incorporating a public response. They are mostly about banning asylum.
Administration officials are also looking at ways to draw lottery tickets to issue H-1B visas to highly skilled workers, replacing them with another preferred method in many technology industries. H-1B visas cost about 85,000 a year.
Miller said the administration will continue efforts to redefine the criteria for legal immigration, which is now largely based on family ties.
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