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There's no doubt that people are being mislead by coyotes, as well as those maps the NGOs pass out in Latin America showing the routes. The area on the river adjacent to the park is less than a half a mile from the port of entry, which is open from 7am to 11pm, 7 days a week. While there's probably a line, this is where one should go to request asylum. However as the woman was a Mexican citizen, it's unlikely that was the intention of her or her coyote.

Any administration that can empower the CDC to declare a rent moratorium is surely clever enough to stop this. And any new law needed to solve this permanently can be drawn up in about two sentences, and not in the 4789 pages of BS Shumer no doubt has in his basement.

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What two sentences?

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How about 1) go to legal point of entry, apply, and wait over here until your case is cleared,

2) not going to point of entry will be ipso facto evidence your claim is false and you will be expelled immediately.

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the asylum bill currently prohibits #2. There would have to be a change in THAT law for that to work.

#1 could work IF there is funding to increase the capabilities of the immigration courts. Some folks wait YEARS just to get an appointment. Biden definitely wants that. Doubt the GOP would do it. There could even be (decent) places to wait on this side of the border if the turnaround was more like months.

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