Thousands of people remain gathered in Tijuana near the border hoping to gain admission to the U.S. by being granted asylum.
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform says asylum is a fairly narrow provision of federal immigration law being cynically exploited.
”It’s not supposed to be something that dictates, you know, the destruction of the country by allowing hundreds of thousands of people to simply march across the border and demand taxpayers pay for unlimited amounts of procedural process, hearings before immigration judges, levels of administrative appeal, years of backlogged delays, giving them jobs, giving them benefits.”
He says Congress needs to stop dragging their feet on reforming the nation’s asylum laws.
“The only thing they seem to get done on immigration is to provide, apparently, a new increase in the number seasonal farm workers that can come in. They got time for that, but they can’t get together and come up with some asylum law reforms.”
Stein was a guest on McIntyre in the Morning.
By Sandy Wells
KABC News.