'Dropping 10,000 asylum-seekers on Los Angeles in one fell swoop could create a logistical problem...where the local capacity for resettling migrants awaiting deportation hearings has been overwhelmed,' columnist Scott Martelle writes.
than native-born Americans. So flooding sanctuary cities temporarily with asylum seekers would probably drive down local crime rates. The so-called sanctuary cities and states have staked out that position for a purpose — they welcome migrants as friends, neighbors and colleagues.
Dropping 10,000 asylum seekers on Los Angeles in one fell swoop could create a logistical problem, much as it has in El Paso, where the local capacity for resettling migrants awaiting deportation hearings has been overwhelmed. Yet if it happened, it probably wouldn’t play out that way. Trump, who never misses a chance to malign migrants and stoke fear among the irrational, doesn’t understand that just because he releases migrants into specific cities that they will stay there.
Trump blames Congress for the outdated immigration and asylum system, which is true as far as it goes. But Trump’s ramped-up arrests have overstuffed detention centers. His government shutdown contributed to the immigration court backlog, with hearings that had been scheduled before the shutdown getting postponed, in some cases, for years.Trump has made immigration the centerpiece of his presidency, yet he has botched it at just about every turn.
And neither does releasing migrants in the sanctuary cities and states. But it would at least drop the desperate into much more caring hands than they experience with the Trump administration.
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