As I said, a good 99% of asylum seekers are turned away. Here's a reality check: if they are allowed out while their asylum hearing is pending they tend to DISAPPEAR into the country. When do we catch them? Often never.
In fact, the old INS practice of "deportation" meant telling the person "go home within 60 days" and letting them walk out the door. As you can guess, they don't tend to follow the court's order. You see these people back in the INS hearing rooms who have been illegally in the country for 4 or 5 years and keep getting told "go home."
That's rather silly. The correct practice should be lock them up until we're ready to SEND them home, don't you think?
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"People who come here may have no legitimate [reason]. They are here for economic reasons or for criminal reasons and have been trained to assert asylum,"
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See, that's the thing. Asylum is the last-ditch effort the illegal alien asserts. And, it's an incredibly hard test to meet -- most people can't prove that if they go home their government/society will be actively persecuting them. So, an "asylum seeker" is not a poor downtrodden sympathy-deserving individual 99.999% of the time, but rather "asylum seeker" almost always means "illegal alien trying for a hail mary at the end of the 4th quarter."