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| Trump moves to block asylum applications by migrants – live updates | |
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| Republican radio silence on Trump’s racist tweets | |
| The row goes on about Trump’s tweets about the Squad, which is all part of the ongoing immigration policy fireworks that are squirting rockets in every direction. | |
| For the full report on this, I refer you to our lead news story on the US site this morning. We’ll be touching on it here, too. | |
| Acting director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, Ken Cuccinelli, talking earlier on CNN, said “No” when asked by Alisyn Camerota if the tweets were racist. But he did call them “political hand grenades.” No kidding. | |
| Republicans silent as Trump renews racist attack on congresswomen | |
| Guatemalan officials expected in Washington | |
| Apparently a meeting between Trump and Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales was canceled amid a court challenge in Guatemala over whether the country could agree to a ‘safe third’ with the US. | |
| Trump administration officials say the changes are meant to close the gap between the initial asylum screening that most people pass and the final decision on asylum that most people do not win. | |
| But immigrant rights groups, religious leaders and humanitarian groups have said the Republican administration’s policies amount to a cruel and calloused effort to keep immigrants out of the country, the AP writes. | |
| Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are poor countries suffering from violence, poverty and, disproportionately to many places, the effects of the climate crisis. | |
| Along with the administration’s recent effort to send asylum seekers back over the border to wait for their legal process to play out, Donald Trump has tried to deny asylum to anyone crossing the border illegally and restrict who can claim asylum, and attorney general William Barr recently tried to keep thousands of asylum seekers detained while their cases play out. | |
| Nearly all of those efforts have been blocked by courts. | |
| Trump administration tries essentially to end asylum protections via the US-Mexico border | |
| The president and the anti-immigration voices in and around the White House constantly buzzing in his ear, urging him to stoke the base and further divide Democrats, while seemingly appealing to Trump’s id, won’t wait for Congress. | |
| There will be some exceptions to the new rule, the AP writes. | |
| If someone has been trafficked, if the country the migrant passed through did not sign one of the major international treaties that govern how refugees are managed (though most Western countries have signed them) or if an asylum-seeker sought protection in a country but was denied. | |
| In those cases, a migrant could still apply for US asylum after crossing the US-Mexico border unlawfully. | |
| But the move is meant is aimed at ending asylum protections. The system was already in chaos after Trump administration crackdowns on asylum. | |
| The new policy is almost certain to face a legal challenge, AP writes. | |
| US law allows refugees to request asylum when they arrive in the US regardless of how they did so, but there is an exception for those who have come through a country considered to be “safe.” | |
| The Immigration and Nationality Act, which governs asylum law, is vague on how a country is determined “safe”, however. It says “pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement.” | |
| The US has such an agreement, known as a safe third country, only with Canada. Under a recent agreement with Mexico, Central American countries were considering a “regional compact” on the issue, but nothing has been decided. | |
| Do take a look back at the Guardian’s Julian Borger on how US foreign policies have contributed to the troubles facing the Central American nations. | |
| Fleeing a hell the US helped create: why Central Americans journey north | |
| The White House is making a further move to crack down on migrants reaching the US via the US-Mexico border. | The White House is making a further move to crack down on migrants reaching the US via the US-Mexico border. |
| According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the US southern border, the Associated Press has just reported. | According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the US southern border, the Associated Press has just reported. |
| There was growing speculation about this earlier today, and so it has come to pass. | There was growing speculation about this earlier today, and so it has come to pass. |
| The rule, expected to go into effect on Tuesday, also applies to children who have crossed the border alone. | The rule, expected to go into effect on Tuesday, also applies to children who have crossed the border alone. |
| We’ll have a lot more on this in a moment.... | We’ll have a lot more on this in a moment.... |
| Good Morning, welcome to our daily live coverage of US politics. There’s a lot going on today as lawmakers try to cram in as much scandal, argument, division and, possibly, even, legislation, with the summer recess looming. | Good Morning, welcome to our daily live coverage of US politics. There’s a lot going on today as lawmakers try to cram in as much scandal, argument, division and, possibly, even, legislation, with the summer recess looming. |
| Happy Monday, what’s coming up today? | Happy Monday, what’s coming up today? |
| We need to figure out if Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are actually happening, as they were promised to begin yesterday but don’t appear to have and confusion and fear reign. Meanwhile, acting director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, Ken Cuccinelli, just called Donald Trump’s racist tweets telling The Squad to “go home” to where they came from “political hand grenades”, but said they weren’t racist. | We need to figure out if Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are actually happening, as they were promised to begin yesterday but don’t appear to have and confusion and fear reign. Meanwhile, acting director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, Ken Cuccinelli, just called Donald Trump’s racist tweets telling The Squad to “go home” to where they came from “political hand grenades”, but said they weren’t racist. |
| Author E Jean Carroll is considering suing Donald Trump over his alleged sexual assault on her in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room in the past. She had earlier said she was not going down the legal route, out of respect for migrants being raped and exploited at the US-Mexico border. | Author E Jean Carroll is considering suing Donald Trump over his alleged sexual assault on her in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room in the past. She had earlier said she was not going down the legal route, out of respect for migrants being raped and exploited at the US-Mexico border. |
| Jeffrey Epstein, that old ally of the rich and powerful and convicted sex offender, is due back in court in New York today, at 10am ET, as he argues to be allowed to be on house arrest as his latest case proceeds. | Jeffrey Epstein, that old ally of the rich and powerful and convicted sex offender, is due back in court in New York today, at 10am ET, as he argues to be allowed to be on house arrest as his latest case proceeds. |