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The reason we have tragedies like that on the border is because those folks, that father didn't want to wait to go through the asylum process in the legal fashion, so decided to cross the river, and not only died, but Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli daughter died tragically as well. – Ken Cuccinelli	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Depending if they committed amajor crime, they should bedeported, president Obama, Ithink, did a heck of ajob.To compare him to what [Trump] is doing is absolutely --I find ... immoral. But the fact is that look, we should notbe locking people up.We should make sure we changethe circumstance as we did -- whythey would leave in the firstplace. And those who come seeking asylum,we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them [and] keep them safe until they can be heard. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. – Thomas Paine	added by Normando 4 years ago
If were successful, the number of people waiting for asylum in Mexico will decrease, if we fail, and if we dont get the results, well, were not going to have solid arguments to propose a different path. – Foreign Minister Ebrard	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We also reached an agreement with Guatemala to reform our laws to essentially say that if people are looking for asylum they ought to be willing to apply for asylum in the first safe country in which they arrive. We'll only move on to that if it's necessary. – Mike Pence	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They proposed in the first meeting to have( a) third safe state, which is not the case here, which is very important. And on the other hand, we accepted to have a more extended version of( migrants remaining in Mexico during asylum claim processing) and to accelerate the deployment of the national guard. – Marcelo Ebrard	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We will see more and more people being granted political asylum in the future. – Alan Li	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I didn't know how tough it would be to get asylum in Denmark. But when you're fleeing, you do not think about that, you just want to go to a safe country. – Ali Adnan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
To act as though throwing up a small section of wall on private land does anything to effectively secure our southern border from human- and drug-trafficking or address the humanitarian needs of the asylum seekers and local communities receiving them - that's nonsense. – Michelle Lujan Grisham	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Asylum seekers are being put at serious risk of harm every day that the forced return policy continues. – Omar Jadwat	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Asylum seekers are being put at serious risk of harm every day that the forced return policy continues, notably, two of the three judges that heard this request found that there are serious legal problems with what the government is doing, so there is good reason to believe that ultimately this policy will be put to a halt. – Omar Jadwat	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is about the Trump administration's agenda of locking up any asylum seeker they can to deter people from seeking protection under our laws. – Michael Tan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The majority of people coming to the United States seeking asylum are coming with little more than the shirts on their back. – Victoria Neilson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum, we urge you to immediately investigate this atrocious and unlawful conduct. – The ACLU	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The number of asylum seekers who will remain in potentially indefinite detention pending disposition of their cases will be almost entirely a question of DHS's detention capacity, and not whether the individual circumstances of individual cases warrant release or detention. – Steve Vladeck	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Nor is it right for The President to use immigrants or people who are claiming political asylum as pawns in a fight against political opponents, the President shouldn't use them as what The President imagines as retribution to political opponents in various areas. – Jerry Nadler	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is a great ruling, this is what they were planning on implementing on a large scale. That would have been a complete game changer in the way our asylum system works. – Judy Rabinovitz	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is what they were planning on implementing on a large scale. That would have been a complete game changer in the way our asylum system works. – Judy Rabinovitz	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Oh, give him asylum -- he's afraid, he's afraid ! we don't love the fact that he's got tattoos on his face, that's not a good sign. We don't love the fact that he's carrying the flag of Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, only to say he's petrified to be in his country. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Congress has to meet quickly and make a deal. I could do it in 45 minutes. We need to get rid of chain migration, we need to get rid of catch and release and visa lottery. And we have to do something about asylum. And to be honest with you, we have to get rid of judges. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Congress has created a complex, comprehensive system laying out both the eligibility criteria and the procedures for deciding who's allowed to enter United States and who isn't, that would defeat the whole point of the asylum process designated by Congress. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
That would defeat the whole point of the asylum process designated by Congress. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Nhat was in Thailand for one reason only, to apply for asylum and someone obviously didn't want him to - so now the Thai government should launch an immediate investigation to find out what happened to him. – Phil Robertson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Every asylum-seeker child has now been removed from Nauru or has had their claim processed and has a clear path off the island. – Scott Morrison	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

The reason we have tragedies like that on the border is because those folks, that father didn't want to wait to go through the asylum process in the legal fashion, so decided to cross the river, and not only died, but Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli daughter died tragically as well.

– Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Depending if they committed amajor crime, they should bedeported, president Obama, Ithink, did a heck of ajob.To compare him to what [Trump] is doing is absolutely --I find ... immoral. But the fact is that look, we should notbe locking people up.We should make sure we changethe circumstance as we did -- whythey would leave in the firstplace. And those who come seeking asylum,we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them [and] keep them safe until they can be heard.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

– Thomas Paine

added by Normando
4 years ago

If were successful, the number of people waiting for asylum in Mexico will decrease, if we fail, and if we dont get the results, well, were not going to have solid arguments to propose a different path.

– Foreign Minister Ebrard

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We also reached an agreement with Guatemala to reform our laws to essentially say that if people are looking for asylum they ought to be willing to apply for asylum in the first safe country in which they arrive. We'll only move on to that if it's necessary.

– Mike Pence

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They proposed in the first meeting to have( a) third safe state, which is not the case here, which is very important. And on the other hand, we accepted to have a more extended version of( migrants remaining in Mexico during asylum claim processing) and to accelerate the deployment of the national guard.

– Marcelo Ebrard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We will see more and more people being granted political asylum in the future.

– Alan Li

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I didn't know how tough it would be to get asylum in Denmark. But when you're fleeing, you do not think about that, you just want to go to a safe country.

– Ali Adnan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To act as though throwing up a small section of wall on private land does anything to effectively secure our southern border from human- and drug-trafficking or address the humanitarian needs of the asylum seekers and local communities receiving them - that's nonsense.

– Michelle Lujan Grisham

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Asylum seekers are being put at serious risk of harm every day that the forced return policy continues.

– Omar Jadwat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Asylum seekers are being put at serious risk of harm every day that the forced return policy continues, notably, two of the three judges that heard this request found that there are serious legal problems with what the government is doing, so there is good reason to believe that ultimately this policy will be put to a halt.

– Omar Jadwat

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is about the Trump administration's agenda of locking up any asylum seeker they can to deter people from seeking protection under our laws.

– Michael Tan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The majority of people coming to the United States seeking asylum are coming with little more than the shirts on their back.

– Victoria Neilson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum, we urge you to immediately investigate this atrocious and unlawful conduct.

– The ACLU

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The number of asylum seekers who will remain in potentially indefinite detention pending disposition of their cases will be almost entirely a question of DHS's detention capacity, and not whether the individual circumstances of individual cases warrant release or detention.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Nor is it right for The President to use immigrants or people who are claiming political asylum as pawns in a fight against political opponents, the President shouldn't use them as what The President imagines as retribution to political opponents in various areas.

– Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a great ruling, this is what they were planning on implementing on a large scale. That would have been a complete game changer in the way our asylum system works.

– Judy Rabinovitz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is what they were planning on implementing on a large scale. That would have been a complete game changer in the way our asylum system works.

– Judy Rabinovitz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Oh, give him asylum -- he's afraid, he's afraid ! we don't love the fact that he's got tattoos on his face, that's not a good sign. We don't love the fact that he's carrying the flag of Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, only to say he's petrified to be in his country.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Congress has to meet quickly and make a deal. I could do it in 45 minutes. We need to get rid of chain migration, we need to get rid of catch and release and visa lottery. And we have to do something about asylum. And to be honest with you, we have to get rid of judges.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Congress has created a complex, comprehensive system laying out both the eligibility criteria and the procedures for deciding who's allowed to enter United States and who isn't, that would defeat the whole point of the asylum process designated by Congress.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That would defeat the whole point of the asylum process designated by Congress.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nhat was in Thailand for one reason only, to apply for asylum and someone obviously didn't want him to - so now the Thai government should launch an immediate investigation to find out what happened to him.

– Phil Robertson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Every asylum-seeker child has now been removed from Nauru or has had their claim processed and has a clear path off the island.

– Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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