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People who come here seeking asylum can are subject to "expedited removal," which does not entitle them to a court hearing, and such an order is non-appealable.

Not according to legal experts who are more familiar with the law than you apparently are. Those seeking asylum must be granted a hearing.

There is an exception from expedited removal for those with a credible fear of returning home

BTW, El Salvador and Honduras have some of the highest violence rates in the world-

You could save yourself some embarrassment if you would actually read the quotes you post, eh?

Under expedited removal proceedings, which are used most commonly at ports of entry, an immigration official can evaluate an immigrant's claim and reject it with no involvement by an immigration judge or review board....There is an exception from expedited removal for those with a credible fear of returning home.

I'm sure Mexico would have kept them, because every cheese-eater and his brother tells me that every country in the world (except us) would grant them asylum.

The "exception" is clearly conditional, and not absolute, according to the very article you cite. It does not say "for those who seek asylum." It says "for those with a credible fear......"

Do we really want a world where we have a few economically successful, cosmopolitan, crowded countries on one end of the scale and a huge number of economically-challenged, environmentally-exploited "poverty prisons" on the other end where people live under chronic oppression and endemic corruption?

Lee Gelernt, the deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants’ Rights Project, told Reuters: "The administration cannot simply get rid of all process for immigrants. The due process clause absolutely applies. It's not a choice."

If he is to get a hearing, he must first show a credible fear, that's true, but it is NOT merely a credible fear of "returning home" like your article says. It must be a credible fear of persecution or torture or persecution."

Even 80% of those granted a hearing are then found to be presenting a frivolous claim.

that doesn’t mean asylum seekers are gaming the system. The majority have valid claims of fear in their home countries, experts told us.

Louis Desipio, a University of California Irvine political science professor who specializes in immigration, told us that while more people are affirmatively expressing their right to apply for asylum, their claims are not necessarily without merit.

"Initially, a lot of migration was single males from Mexico coming for work, and now you’re seeing a shift to Central American families fleeing record levels of violence in the northern triangle" of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, said Joshua Breisblatt, a senior policy analyst at the American Immigration Council. "There is no indication that that’s an increase in fraud, that’s just something that is happening in the United States’ backyard."

Asylum requests by citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras made up 72.9 percent of total claims in fiscal year 2016.

"Our laws are clear," said Kate Voigt, associate director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "If you express a fear of returning to your home country, you have a right to a credible fear screening. If the asylum officer finds you have a credible fear of persecution in your home country, then you have a right to have an immigration judge hear your case."

Under the last several administrations, Customs and Border Protection increased its use of expedited removal, according to Lenni B. Benson, a law professor at New York Law School. Given the only way to stop an expedited removal order is to seek a credible fear review, Benson said this might explain the hike in numbers.

As we noted, the overall grant rate for all asylum applications nationwide was 20 percent in fiscal year 2017, a percentage hasn’t changed much since 2012.

But Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government who has interviewed hundreds of migrants for immigration research, said the variation in numbers between case approvals and asylum application approvals does not prove fraud, either.

In order to get their cases of asylum initially approved, immigrants arriving illegally must fill out a survey to show whether their conditions qualify under the definition of persecution. In order to prove they merit asylum, they must show evidence they often lack before a court.

The United States has also narrowed its standards for asylum under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Desipio said, precluding victims of domestic abuse and gang violence from qualifying for asylum.

"It’s very complicated for these people," Correa said. "How, if they are in the United States after that very difficult journey, are they going to prove they have been extorted, show that their kids have been recruited by gangs?"

Correa said there are definitely cases of fraud by smugglers who attempt to reunite children with their parents. But there are also families fleeing situations of extreme insecurity...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jun/21/donald-trump/1700-percent-increase-asylum-claims/

EXPEDITED REMOVAL

DHS Deporting Women Without Asking If They’re Afraid to Go Home, Advocate Says

Fast-track proceedings are required by law to consider a person’s fear, but the feds are allegedly moving ahead without asking.
Betsy Woodruff
06.20.18

The Department of Homeland Security is breaking the law to rush separated immigrant mothers out of the U.S., according to an advocate working with detained women.

Laura Lunn, managing attorney for the detention program of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, told The Daily Beast that numerous detained women she’s spoken to say they were placed in expedited removal proceedings without being asked by Customs and Border Patrol officials if they were afraid of returning to their home countries.

Lunn said she represents women detained in Colorado, including many who have been separated from their children under Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new “zero tolerance” policy.

“It’s been a significant number of people we’ve met with who say they were never asked if they had a fear,” Lunn said.

That’s important because before DHS can put an immigrant into expedited removal proceedings, the law requires that officials determine if the immigrant is seeking asylum, according to immigration attorneys.

“That’s a violation of the law,” Lunn said. “When somebody is put into expedited removal, the government has to ask them if they have a fear of return because that’s what puts the brakes on just deporting them, and that is their right under the asylum statute. And that’s not happening.”

“That’s not a new phenomenon,” she added, “but we’re seeing it in mass scale right now.”

Lunn did not share the names of immigrants who have been put in expedited removal without being asked about fear of returning home, and said the women are very fearful and worry about their children. Advocates fear that immigrants who speak on the record about alleged DHS lawbreaking could face retaliation in their immigration court proceedings.

Katie Shepherd of the American Immigration Council said CPB violates the law if its officers don’t give immigrants a chance to express their fear before putting them into speedy removal proceedings.

“Individuals placed in expedited removal proceedings must be referred to an asylum officer for an interview to determine if they have a ‘credible fear’ of persecution,” she told The Daily Beast. “Failure to do so is a violation of law and could result in a legitimate asylum seeker being deported to imminent harm or even death.”

David Leopold, an immigration attorney who formerly headed the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said he found Lunn’s allegations to be chilling.

“Customs and Border Protection officers have a duty to understand and figure out whether or not a person is in fear for their life, fear of persecution before they subject them to the harshness of expedited removal and immediate return to their country,” he said. “They have to ask that question.”

He added that allegations of a pattern of officers neglecting to ask immigrants about potential fear of return would be a significant change.

“This allegation is very serious and it must be investigated,” he said.

A DHS official told The Daily Beast that the lack of detail with the allegations made it hard for the agency to respond.

“DHS complies with federal law with regard to processing individuals claiming asylum,” the official said. “It is hard for us to respond to claims without the specificity needed to look into it further.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dhs-deporting-women-without-asking-if-theyre-afraid-to-go-home-advocate-says?ref=scroll

but the feds are allegedly moving ahead without asking.

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If he is to get a hearing, he must first show a credible fear, that's true, but it is NOT merely a credible fear of "returning home" like your article says. It must be a credible fear of persecution or torture or persecution."

Where is your legal support for that view? In fact, why don't you post the source material, or link, for your statements regarding law?

"If you express a fear of returning to your home country, you have a right to a credible fear screening. If the asylum officer finds you have a credible fear of persecution in your home country, then you have a right to have an immigration judge hear your case."

Under the last several administrations, Customs and Border Protection increased its use of expedited removal, according to Lenni B. Benson, a law professor at New York Law School...the only way to stop an expedited removal order is to seek a credible fear review...

The United States has also narrowed its standards for asylum under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Desipio said, precluding victims of domestic abuse and gang violence from qualifying for asylum.

The article refers to one block in San Francisco

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EXPEDITED REMOVAL

DHS Deporting Women Without Asking If They’re Afraid to Go Home, Advocate Says

“It’s been a significant number of people we’ve met with who say they were never asked if they had a fear,” Lunn said...

“That’s not a new phenomenon,” she added, “but we’re seeing it in mass scale right now.”

Lunn did not share the names of immigrants who have been put in expedited removal without being asked about fear of returning home,

“DHS complies with federal law with regard to processing individuals claiming asylum,” the official said. “It is hard for us to respond to claims without the specificity needed to look into it further.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dhs-deporting-women-without-asking-if-theyre-afraid-to-go-home-advocate-says?ref=scroll