Caravan Asylum Seekers are Guilty of Criminal Fraud

 All  members of that “caravan” that came to our border through Mexico, or bordering Central American countries, seeking “asylum” in the U.S., are guilty of criminal fraud under under Federal law.

8 USC 1182(a)(6)(C)

Misrepresentation

(i)            IN GENERAL.—Any alien who by fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact seeks … entry into the United States or other benefit provided under this act is excludable (and prosecutable for a felony that includes imprisonment for up to five years).

Precedent decisions governing asylum have made it clear that an applicant for asylum must be seeking

“…to escape immediate danger or imminent persecution…”

First we need to clarify that Central America is not a country. The geographical area includes several countries that are in no way united as a single country. None of the caravan members can show that, after they “escaped” their home country, where they allege they were in "immediate danger or imminent persecution” afterwards, as they continued the journey toward our border.

If the caravan members had been bona fide asylum applicants, they would have applied for asylum at the first border they crossed while leaving their “persecuting” country. The fact that they were freely allowed to leave their home country is prima facie evidence that they were not "oppressed" in their home country. Our asylum laws were developed mostly to aid refugees from oppressive Communist countries that built walls to keep  people in. The Mariel Boatlift event of 1980 proved that oppressive regimes have become wiser and now recognize the opportunity for getting rid of their non-productive population by SENDING them to the U.S. (To be fair, there were a few bona fide refugees in that event.)

The U.S. has diplomatic relations with all those “Central American” countries whence come the fraudulent refugee applicants (the caravan), and it seems that it would be a slap in their faces for our Government to declare that they were oppressive to  humble, poorly educated peons with no demonstrable  political beliefs.  However,these countries' leaders well know that their economy benefits enormously from remittances of money sent home by emigrants to relatives in the their home countries. The banana republic leaders know as well as you and I that these peon asylum frauds are simply seeking to better themselves economically (mainly through welfare; very few will ever become financially solvent, if allowed to stay in this country). 

Until recent years, most asylum seekers were embroiled in politics, making their well-documented claims of "imminent danger" credible. We used to require proof―such as jail records and newspaper accounts of oppression of the specific applicant (and his/her immediate family). Our corrupt, incompetent Congress has created a monster by watering down asylum laws to effectively include economic refugees--poor people with no credible proof of oppression for their religious or  political beliefs. American religions have gotten involved, hoping to build up their tithers--supporting Sinclair Lewis’ statement (through a fictional character) that "If Fascism ever comes to this country it will come “wrapped in the flag,  holding a bible.” An overload of perennially-needy, illiterate, third-world imports will help us along the road to socialism, a fact of which Democrats are joyously aware.

For further reading on requirements of applicants for asylum, see:

https://www.proskauerforgood.com/2017/12/illegal-or-fraudulent-entry-into-the-u-s-and-its-effect-on-asylum/?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=View-Original