By Federale
07/24/2023
It might appear that everyone in the Biden Regime and Treason Lobby is on the same page with respect to the illegal-alien invasion. All are united in wanting to dispossess the Historic American Nation. But, amazingly, high-level bureaucrats are squabbling with low-level bureaucrats and with Treason Lobby “charities.” Treasoncrats inside the Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are conspiring with communist front groups like the American Civil Liberties Union to expand the current Biden Regime Administrative Amnesty via litigation. The Amnesty’s Asylum rules, they allege in federal court, are too restrictive [Asylum officers union comes out against Biden administration’s asylum rule in new legal brief, by Alisa Reznick, Fronteras, June 15, 2023]. This is crazy, of course. Anyone who applies on the CBP One Mobile App, or even if entering illegally, except for single men, can apply for and likely receive asylum. But the Treason Lobby didn’t seize control of U.S. immigration policy by being reasonable.
Reuters first reported the infighting in a story about this classic Treason Lobby lawsuit. The Lügenpresse subsidiary wants readers to believe that the heartless Biden Regime is harming illegal aliens by making them apply for asylum on CBP One Mobile App. It found two such illegals in Matamoros, Mexico:
On a June afternoon when temperatures climbed near 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), Alejandra Pena gently tipped a jug of water into her son’s mouth. Like other children in the migrant camp, a mile-long stretch of tents along the banks of the river separating Mexico from the United States, the toddler had diarrhea. Pena worried the boy was dehydrated. …
Pena, 34, fled Venezuela after a criminal group killed her sister, according to interviews and police records. Hoping to seek asylum in the United States, she said her family was stuck in northern Mexico because of new U.S. border rules adopted on May 11 by the administration of President Joe Biden.
The rule requires migrants to make an appointment on a government-run smartphone app before approaching the border — but none of the people with Pena has a device. “We are paralyzed here,” Pena said.
[Biden’s New Asylum Policy Strands Some Migrants At Mexico Border, by Laura Gottesdiener, Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke and Daina Beth Solomon, Reuters/YahooNews, July 6, 2023]
NEW: On May 11 Biden replaced a COVID-era border policy with tough new asylum rules that advocates and the asylum officers union say are essentially the same as policies proposed under Trump. We took a look at the effect more than one month later: https://t.co/Y5bsLZFs5K
— Mica Rosenberg (@micarosenberg) July 6, 2023
And the sob story from Pena, who “wants to follow the rules,” gets even better.
Tens of thousands of migrants hoping to seek asylum in the United States are stuck in northern Mexico because of new border rules adopted by US President Biden’s administration https://t.co/JCTjoYRRSJ pic.twitter.com/DM1TNYdpzN
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 7, 2023
Two of the family’s smartphones were stolen and a tablet was sold in Costa Rica. And, of course, being penniless, she can’t buy another phone.
However, Pena’s not using CBP One is not a barrier to entry. For one thing, a Regime official told the reporters that it “is working with shelters and other non-governmental organizations to expand internet access for migrants, adding that there was no need for them to wait in dangerous border towns” because “‘there are plenty of safer parts of Mexico where people can go.’”
In other words, phones regardless, Pena and her kin can wait in a safer place.
For another, we learn from the story that the shameless baby-waving was a big bucket of eyewash. Other invaders who don’t use the app, such as one “Cindy,” are still being processed and released if they present themselves at the border:
Desperate after multiple assaults, and unable to secure an appointment on the CBP One app, she and her son walked up to the international bridge on May 21. She said they were allowed to enter and given a notice to appear in immigration court in Houston in August.
Officials and advocates said families are subject to the higher asylum standard, but have not been held for in-custody screenings; while Cindy was not detained, she may still have a tougher time winning her case in immigration court.
“Tougher time”? Maybe, because being a victim of a crime is not a basis for asylum. But most likely “Cindy” simply won’t show.
And invaders need not despair. Treason Lobby lawyers are on their side, working with the Deep State to overturn even the CBP One Amnesty:
In a June 7 filing supporting a lawsuit brought against the regulation by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others in U.S. District Court in northern California, the union representing asylum officers said the policy puts “our international and moral commitments at risk.”
So, as they did during the Trump Administration, federal bureaucrats are trying to sabotage a president. The same union tried to subvert the Trump’s immigration enforcement — although they were clearly violating the Hatch Act, which forbids political activity by federal employees [Insubordination At USCIS, Close It Down, Federale, The Fifth Columnist, July 28, 2019].
This time, they’re opposing Biden’s belated attempt to make the Great Replacement invasion more saleable to the American people, because they think it hinders it from proceeding fast enough.
The head of the Asylum Office is John Lafferty, a well-paid bureaucrat who was involved in machinations against enforcement during the Trump Administration [Top asylum official reassigned to Virginia processing center, by Ted Hesson, Politico, September 5, 2019]. At a “town hall,” he told the disgruntled Open Borders bureaucrats to get with the program and do as they were told:
The Biden border strategy set a target of 63,000 sped-up screenings for the month of June, more than five times the previous high in July 2019, according to a previously unreported virtual town hall for USCIS officers which was shared with Reuters.
Asylum division chief John Lafferty told the town hall that the administration aims to process migrants for release or deportation within one or two weeks and cut the time migrants have to consult with a lawyer from 48 hours to 24 hours.
Some asylum officers in the meeting raised concerns about the timelines.
“We are hearing that when an applicant calls an attorney but no one answers, supervisors are determining that is considered sufficient opportunity to seek representation and the interview must proceed,” one officer who was not identified by the moderator said.
“Like it or not, we are an immigration consequence,” Lafferty said. “We are part of the enforcement strategy that has been pursued by the department and the administration in the post-Title 42 era.” [Emphasis added]
As under President Trump, the bureaucrats think they, not the president, should make asylum policy.
Lafferty should have dismissed the protesters and ordered disciplinary action for insubordination. Minor bureaucrats aren’t empowered to make decisions about this country’s “international and moral commitments.” That’s the President’s job.
Of course, Biden’s parole and catch-and-release policies are illegal. But that illegality is quite different from bureaucrats conspiring with political lobbies to widen Biden’s illegal Amnesty policies further.
The lawsuit’s potential beneficiaries, Reuters reported, are more than 100,000 invaders waiting in Mexico for Asylum officers to bang them in.
Funny thing is, the Reuters offering contradicts a key union allegation, with a second example of an illegal who claimed to flee “gang threats” and landed at a point of entry without a CBP One Mobile appointment:
Meanwhile, [Jose Miguel] Anariba’s wife Elsa and their daughters 10, 12, and 14, surrendered at a U.S. border crossing on May 30.
After a couple days in custody, they were released and told to check in with ICE, according to documents shared with Reuters. They are living in Houston pending a court date for their asylum hearing.
A few days ago, Elsa said, she got a call from Anariba. He told her he had been deported.
Yet here is an amicus curiae brief from a Treason Lobby Coalition component:
The Rule effectively eliminates asylum for most non-Mexican asylum seekers arriving at the southern border, irrespective of the merits or urgency of their claim for protection [Brief Of Amicus Curiae National Citizenship And Immigration Services Council 119 In Support Of Plaintiffs, by Kathleen R. Hartnett and Zoë Helstrom, In Complaint — East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Biden, June 7, 2023].
Obviously, that’s wrong. Regardless of what happened to the husband, Elsa and her children are in the U.S. pending their asylum hearing (which they will probably skip).
Point is, whatever rules Biden has set forth, claims are not restricted whatsoever. All claimants can sit for a Credible Fear interview before an asylum officer. If denied, they can appeal to the Executive Office For Immigration Review.
But note that the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant [Tweet them] legal brief claims, significantly, that Deep State bureaucrats should decide asylum policies, not Congress or the President.
A decade later, in 1990, the Immigration and Naturalization Service established an Asylum Corps comprised of professional asylum officers with training in international law and ready access to relevant country conditions and human rights information to enable the more accurate and efficient processing of asylum claims. … The imperative to make asylum decisions based on an objective application of the law to the facts of a case, free from improper interference or political pressure, is fundamental to the institutional identity and ethos of the Asylum Corps.
That is the quintessentially arrogant Deep State claim that bureaucrats, not elected officials, should make public policy.
Well, bureaucrats and their “institutional identity and ethos” are not in the Constitution and hold no writ.
As for Reuters and its tale of woe, the put-upon “migrants” aren’t the victims.
We are: the Historic American Nation that is being forced to pay for its own Dispossession and Replacement.
The blogger Federale is a 4th generation Californian and a veteran of federal law enforcement, including service in the legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal law enforcement agencies.
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