FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. The Trump administration has quietly shut down the nation's asylum system for the first time in decades amid coronavirus concerns, largely because holding people in custody is considered too dangerous.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday that nearly 10,000 Mexicans and Central Americans have been “expelled” to Mexico since the rules took effect March 21. Mark Morgan, the agency’s acting commissioner, said the changes were “not about immigration.” The administration tapped a law allowing the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ban foreigners if their entry would create “a serious danger” to the spread of communicable disease. The U.S. has the most confirmed cases in the world by far. CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield issued a 30-day order and said he may extend it.
“If someone is deemed to have the appropriate level of fear, those will be processed on a case-by-case basis,” Morgan, the CBP acting chief, said Thursday.offers some detail on exemptions: An agent who determines that a migrant claims a “reasonably believable” fear of being tortured can be referred for additional screening under the U.N. Convention Against Torture, a lesser form of asylum that’s harder to qualify for.
“A public health crisis does not give the Executive Branch a free pass to violate constitutional rights, nor does it give the Executive Branch permission to operate outside of the law,” they wrote Tuesday.
richpaulson3 heartbreaking. But as long as the derangedAnimal is in WH all immigrants are better off not being at mercy of the leathalIneptMaggot.
Obscure? When is a law obscure? It's either on the books or not.
Good
Seek asylum in Mexico
drawandstrike Great News!
Excellent. Maybe there’s an obscure law for criminally biased journalism.
Niiiiice
Awesome!
Is that an actual problem at this time
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You are claiming that PDT is eliminating illegal's only chance to apply for asylum. UR FakeNews
drawandstrike Common sense is heresy for the left.
They're using a LAW.....IMAGINE THAT!
During a pandemic....closing borders? The insanity.
And
Thank god we don’t need more patients in the country as we shelter at home. A little common sense people. I expect this from CNN and MSNBC but yet again AP joins the political arena
This should be the standard practice. Our immigration laws are a joke.
And what else is he quietly doing?
He didn’t quietly do it! He announced it on tv!
Auschwitz... are we there yet? lopezobrador_ por que permitir estas violaciones al derecho del migrante? BASTA DE PALABRAS, NECESITAMOS ACCIONES!!
Good! DeportThemAll
Good.
You guys used to be impartial and reported news. Now you highlight, cut and paste your narrative. I would say the you...THE PRESS.. is the biggest reason why Donald Trump is president of the United states.
Good. Asylum isn’t meant for poverty or crime, it’s meant to protect those being targeted by their government. We have plenty of uneducated and unskilled citizens, we don’t need to import any more.
Awesome
Awesome.
drawandstrike Good. They are ILLEGAL ALIENS!
drawandstrike Great news!! 👍🏼 👍🏼
That's awesome
Criminal trespasser is not spelled m-I-g-r-a-n-t.
drawandstrike It’s a law do quite bitching
My country is doing it too. Great job. And the best is that European Human Rights Court ruled it as legal while the ppl were coming from countries where they could apply for asylum. In fact 98% actually illegal migrants from poor but safe countries, not refugees.
Why is enforcing the law a bad thing?
Finally, some good news.
Estimated 22 million migrants in the United States. Why did the socialist democrats & Rino's never build a wall? Almost like it was a profitable business or something.
TedCornwell Good.
I’m sure you’re fine with American citizens getting arrested for going to the beach though, amiright?
Hey Dan and this is supposed to be bad news!? More like this retweet gave away your politics.Fantastic news!🤔🤔
Americans can't come and go, so why would accept others in right now?
Thank God Trump did.
Excellent
maggieNYT You have just soscibeeed Steve Miller’s role— he is the guy finding even more ways for Trump to be evil!!!
Baba9773 Good!
Good that he is thank you realDonaldTrump
Cry more.
Go Trump
There are consequences for elections !
This is the time to first take care of our people here
Good job President Trump!
Good.
Fantastic
Didn't AP have another story today praising NewZeland for immediately closing their borders and potentially saving thousands of lives? COVID19
Outstanding! Keep up the good work.
HC_Richardson Just have to say I’d agree with any administration taking this step, if it was part of a comprehensive measure to test the American public, and therefore needing to shut off entry from outside. That however is not the point here. The point here is the usual idiocy.
Asylum from what
drawandstrike Wonderful!!!!
MagLandrace Good! Are you kidding me right now? Americans are dying and 10 percent have lost their jobs.
realDonaldTrump still laser focused on his bigotry.
The media is so broken they're trying to push open borders during a pandemic sweeping across America. The media is completely broken.
THAT IS WHY YOU ARE FAKE FAKE NEWS PEOPLE
WARMGLASS Thank you President Trump.
That's a great thing, and the dissociated press is the enemy of the people, so hopefully he would pull your press credentials and get you the hell off the national territory.
drawandstrike Hey AP - we’re in the middle of a pandemic. Priorities.
The ultimate stay-at-home order.
This is the most disgusting deplorable president.
Good!
tsartbot Good
Good!
Pictured are illegal border crossers who can't apply for asylum anyway.
drawandstrike Fantastic!
They are much better off. The admin’s failure cost 16000 deaths and counting. 500000 infected.
Perfection!
So your saying he followed the law...as usual.
Cry more
What's wrong with that?
Beautiful! No more Mexicans in america please!
Good. They are supposed to seek asylum at the embassy
Nice to get some good news for a change. Thanks.
Great!!!!!!
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Oh Dear God! U.S. has a Raging Pandemic & they desperately keep others from contracting the disease! How cruel!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good.
America first deport them all
So something good came out of this after all!
Go out of business, rag
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Hahahahahahaha
THANK GOD!! Have you NOT seen the video of Chinese immigrants stuffed in car dashboards trying to infiltrate U.S.? Apparently CNN doesn’t monitor the latest NEWS! Go figure!
drawandstrike We have the BestPresidentEver, AP. WTP agree with strict border control. We’re not impressed by your pointless sob story. Our country needs to restore founding principles undermined by treacherous, evil & corrupt politicians, more of whom we will reject in 2020. CatchUp❗️
Good! We're in a global pandemic...the needs to be closed!
Thank you, President Trump!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
HOW WONDERFUL
Whatever it takes.
And I thought the AP only did negative stories on Trump. Who knew. Keep up the good work.
It's a virus-spread crackdown: Trump has promised to protect Americans.
Yeah!
But we have the most cases of COVID, right? Why would they want to stay here?
That’s just one reason we love Trump.
Excellent
How does it being obscure matter?
So, you admit the law was enforced?
Stable genius
Asylum hell they are not here legally, so why the hell should they get rewarded for breaking the law? If we entered into their country illegally what do you think would happen to us? I bet its much worse then how they get treated here. Come legally or not at all!
Smart move could be carriers.
Good
good
Perfect
Good.
Seek Asylum thru a hole. Hahahahahaha You're some clown
drawandstrike The same people crying about how we don't have enough PPE, vents, saying how exhausted our front line medical workers are, want to bring MORE people in to the country who will inevitably get sick and will overrun our resources even more. The lack of self awareness is blinding
drawandstrike Winning
Good news!
Awesome
GOOD!
One of the many reasons I voted for President Trump & will vote for him again... AmericaFirst
PersisterCrone The trump administration is corrupt and criminal.
Ccp m_ebrard ?
maggieNYT Finally!!!!!!!!! Let’s go!!!!!!
SeacoastEagle Finally our government putting America’s health above all else; thank you President Trump and the Trump Administration!
maggieNYT This is what shutting a border down looks like. Asylum seekers can be carriers like anyone else.
I see all the Doc’s , Nurses, everyday workers - our soldiers. They represent such an amazing cross section of what makes American. We are representing every race, every color, every ideology. We are straight we are gay. We lov America, lov one another. Together we defeat 🦠
Excellent!!!
Yay! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👊👊👊👏👊 BEST PRESIDENT EVER! I LOVE OUT PRESIDENT! Trump2020LandslideVictory
drawandstrike Well the law is the law so deal with it.
If you disagree, you should leave, too!
MalcolmNance Inexcusable!
Go Trump!
LongMaga Bc there's a process!! Running over the border isnt the process
GArchibaldCTV 😢😢😢
kaci150 The democrat pandemic has consequences they didn’t figure on. They sure are stupid. Thank God for President Trump.
Mexico should follow China economic model.
Bullshit this has been happening since Obama. Cmon!
Bravo. Bravo.
GEOTUS_POTUS good
MalcolmNance The borders should be closed to all immigrants at this time. We have a little virus that is killing everyone and now is not the time to be accepting immigrants. They can wait until this is over, just like everyone else.
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Now is not the time to seek asylum. Border crossers run the risk of being shot dead by the general public at the moment. I’m sorry your situation is dire but Americans are hyper defensive rn.
drawandstrike Key word “law”.
drawandstrike 👍🏻
MalcolmNance Illegal. Asylum is legal in our country. Stupid people.
the heart-breaking reality is the US can't manage the volume of migrants seeking asylum from failed/corrupt govs. former asylum law gives a false sense of security to well-meaning migrants who want a better life only to enter into a new scenario of poverty once in the US
Good
Best President ever!
So the executive branch used the laws as written by the legislative branch.... and?
drawandstrike They are doing more than that with 'obscure' laws. Liberal tears inbound.
Excellent!
If WE have to be locked in our homes then so do they...IN MEXICO
Perfect. Exactly why I voted for him.
drawandstrike That's really great news! Thanks AP for turning a crappy day into a day with a little sunshine!!!!
rentonMagaUK Send them back, build the wall, no stimulus check. If you want things to be better in your country; fight a revolution there and make things better. Don't bring your BS here any longer.
what a PIG!
drawandstrike This is awesome news!
Best President Ever
Good
Good
Fabulous!
Perhaps Mexico will start taking their borders more seriously.!
drawandstrike Great!!!
Translation he is keeping the democratic voters from getting into the country.
Good Job.
seek asylum at the official port of entry, then they will be fine
Good! I hope he does this more!
Halli-fing-luya! Finally, the system is protecting the Americans who live here, which include natural born and immigrants, who did it the right way. It’s shocking when things go correctly. That tells you how far left we have allowed our country to go.
maggieNYT Smart move realDonaldTrump, thanks for keeping Americans safe!
And if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19 and can now spread it further south, that’s ok with you all?
drawandstrike Good
drawandstrike Thank you DJT!
drawandstrike Promises kept 🤡
maggieNYT Never let a crisis go to waste when there is so much need for degenerate vindictiveness.
And America is cool with this! MAGA2020
Fantastic!
maggieNYT Trump is diabolical. Please read Susan Glasser’s article in The New Yorker, “Coronavirus and How the US Ended Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags”.
Good.
drawandstrike Thank God for President Trump. Democrats would sell their souls to destroy America.
Justa47yearold2
Hire more agents for ICE, Finish the wall and then deport the rest of them back to where they came from....
drawandstrike Good
drawandstrike Good!
drawandstrike IS AP part of the Satanist cabal org. Or China Democratic socialist party OR BOTH (THEM) VS. AMERICA
This is super news!
Does it make you wonder why it became a law in the first place?
Best President Ever! .. Always Doing His Best To Protect Our Country And Citizens .. Trump2020
And....? Whats the problem ? All travwl is on hold for anyway or didnt they get the memo? Stop making a huge deal out of a Sovereign Nation protecting its borders you commies
Good.
Let them stay at your place or stop bitching about it.
Good.
Good for them!!
And Is there a narrative you are trying to push? The President is enforcing a law. Well, that is certainly a change from the last president. msm sucks
How evilgelical.
Nice. When the pandemic is over. Keep it going.
Tha is AP for finally printing a story that says good things about Trump.
drawandstrike THIS is the stuff we need. Keep up the good work!
This law shouldn't be so obscure, even after coronavirus has passed.
Awesome.
Great news!
Nice!!!
Sweet. That’s my POTUS.....see, cuz I’m an America citizen.
Tanks, Mr. President, Donald Trump!!!
👍
rentonMagaUK Good
Finally! A heartwarming news story
Literally the only thing the Trump administration should be doing instead of this social garbage and of course it’s the only thing AP complains about.
Good I wish we had a leader like that in Canada instead of the joke we have! Puppet!
The left is so worried about not spreading the virus and staying quarantined. Unless of course it’s the border and illegal immigrants are involved because their well being far outweighs those of US citizens.
Great
We know Trump saved lives by closing our borders during the pandemic. We are living in a state of emergency. Even the AP slants stories and it is not supposed to be biased.
They will fill US hospitals, if they are allowed thru borders.
Great
And another Dem mouthpiece showing they don't care if Americans live or die, only the political agenda matters.
Great news
drawandstrike
Great.
drawandstrike In other words, we have a President with a damn backbone!! Good. Seek asylum in the first country you’re entering at their ports of entry...ONLY. We can’t take of our own, seek help elsewhere.
Good!
Great news
Were they here legally or illegally? If illegal, don't really see the issue. Why is it wrong to punish people that break the law? Want asylum, go about it the right way. Why is that wrong to expect?
drawandstrike America First there’s hundreds of other countries out there
drawandstrike Good.
FANTASTIC NEWS
drawandstrike Fantastic.
drawandstrike This dude is pissed!
So what’s wrong with that asshole
Awsome
The only good thing about this outbreak.
Wonderful news! Thanks!
maggieNYT Corrupt and cruel. Watch what they do not want they say. Republicans are racist everyone of them.
Outstanding.
drawandstrike Great job realDonaldTrump
obscure, justify, chance These are words used to paint illegal behavior as legal The enemy of the people
drawandstrike Great!
drawandstrike
drawandstrike At least the virus was good for something
drawandstrike Awesome! 👏🏽👏🏽
Wipe out the Cartels!
drawandstrike Excellent. The asylum loophole is routinely abused.
And?
The Federal gov't is legally acting to protect Americans. Only the Democrat/media complex objects. (B/c it runs counter to their Chicom paymasters' commands).
drawandstrike
drawandstrike WINNING!!!!
i don’t understand why those seeking asylum won’t wait another 8-9 months.. they already know what’s in store for them at our border, now. they’ll be safer & happier here once trump is gone...
drawandstrike Good
Good
Excellent!
Awesome.
Can we use our resources for Americans before we worry about those on the border. We can’t even test everyone in our own country and yet you want to let more people in. WTF get your priorities straight!
PuppyResists they're probably better off - usa sucks right now
Great! I am sure it is helping keep Americans healthy.
Awesome! More winning and return to the rule of law! Thank you, Mr. President!
Hopefully he keeps it up after the pandemic too.
In otherwords, this administration is exploiting this pandemic as an excuse to violate the rights of asylum seekers and force them into life-threatening danger?
GOOD!! GREAT JOB!! We don't have time right now to deal with the added hassel, and expense of people breaking the law. Check back when we're healthy.
What’s the problem?
Awesome! Keep the good work!
Thank you President 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
maggieNYT About time!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That is what laws are for to protect legal citizens.
National Emergency. America is closed
And? I want Biden to continue to rail against borders and guns...wont hear a peep.
Oh no
The Associated Press piles one terrifying and unacceptable distraction on the other. None of this has anything to do with the American People getting a new functional government and a reliable source of information.
Good.
May God safeguards American people from such an inhuman leader.
Rahm Emanuel playbook: Never let a crisis go to waste.
Good. This should be the case even when we aren’t in a pandemic.
The absolutely right call in today's world.
Social distancing of 10 miles? Sounds good.
Meanwhile United States citizens are being arrested no questions asked for being at the ocean with no ability to seek asylum
More blood on his hands! EVIL!
Exactly the right thing to do. Thank you President Trump.
Good.
Thank God
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