(Staff articles from The BRIEBART NEWS & NEW YORK TIMES in October 2018.)
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A tent city detention camp in West Texas near Mexico border. |
Trump stated, “If they apply for asylum, we’re going to hold them until such time as their trial takes place.” He added, “We’re going to put up — we’re going to build tent cities. … We’re going to have tents. They’re going to be very nice, and they’re going to wait, and if they don’t get asylum, they get out.”
There are two paths to asylum in the United States:
First Path To Asylum: In
"affirmative asylum" cases, an individual is in the U.S. or has
arrived at a point of entry and has declared his or her application for asylum
to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within one year of their
arrival in country. A decision can be made by a USCIS asylum officer.