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riversedge

(70,187 posts) Fri May 3, 2019, 08:47 AM May 2019

Trump to give Border Patrol agents authority to decide asylum claims on the spot:

Every day gets worse

SCOOP: Trump administration to give Border Patrol agents authority to decide asylum claims on the spot:

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Trump to give Border Patrol agents authority to decide asylum claims on the spot: (Original Post) riversedge May 2019 OP

I'd like to say I'm outraged, but really it's just another day in Trumpland. Shell_Seas May 2019 #1

More steps on the way... Wounded Bear May 2019 #2

I do not understand how these directives can override our laws sinkingfeeling May 2019 #3

Make them personally liable for Human Rights violations... SidDithers May 2019 #4

Shell_Seas

(3,332 posts)

1. I'd like to say I'm outraged, but really it's just another day in Trumpland.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri May 3, 2019, 09:18 AM

May 2019

Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)

2. More steps on the way...

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Fri May 3, 2019, 09:21 AM

May 2019

sinkingfeeling

(51,445 posts)

3. I do not understand how these directives can override our laws

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri May 3, 2019, 09:39 AM

May 2019

and signed treaties.

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)

4. Make them personally liable for Human Rights violations...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri May 3, 2019, 09:52 AM

May 2019

Sue the shit out of a few Border agents, for refusals that don’t follow due process, and soon no border agent will want the liability associated with making an incorrect decision.

And Asylum cases will be approved in record numbers.

Sid

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