Comments by "Scott Farner" (@scottfarner5100) on "USA TODAY" channel.

§1158. Asylum (a) Authority to apply for asylum (1) In general Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including an alien who is brought to the United States after having been interdicted in international or United States waters), irrespective of such alien's status, may apply for asylum in accordance with this section or, where applicable, section 1225(b) of this title.
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That would be every country that is part of the Geneva Convention.
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@vicpardo2953 LOL, it's been in place for 50 years, so quite a few.
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Republicans want to keep title 42 in place. Title 42 suspends all title 8 laws and authority. The Right is using it to once again undermine legal asylum, 8 US code 1158. It also suspends 8 US code 1325; the misdemeanor that carries a civil penalty for crossing the border. And 8 US code 1326; stiffer penalties for crossing the border. That leaves out any legal penalty or deterrent for those crossing. All we can do is deport, and many re-cross again with no penalty in place. That causes our apprehension numbers to be inflated and the get away numbers to be inflated.
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Title 42 is being used to undermine our 40 year old immigration laws, and is causing the problems the Right wanted to avoid.
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@noneyabizz8337 US code 1158 our asylum laws. Title 42 removes penalties for US code 1325 and 1326. That means we have more and more repeat offenders crossing multiple times who are not being charged with felonies, so 42 is causing the very problem the Right wanted to avoid and it's inflating border crossing numbers as repeat offenders are up to 40%. The Right is using it as another tool to stop legal asylum.
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Funny how southern border crossings were at a 20 year high under Trump before the election.
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You mean Right wing activist judge who is helping the Right to undermine US immigration laws.
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@genstargate5249 Open border is a right wing term for ignoring our asylum laws.
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@sandyh5873 What's an open border is that what we had under Trump?
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@Goldenboy48 US code 1158 our asylum laws. And title 42 removes penalties for US code 1325 and 1326. That means we have more and more repeat offenders crossing multiple times who are not being charged with felonies, so 42 is causing the very problem the Right wanted to avoid and it's inflating border crossing numbers as repeat offenders are up to 40%.
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@Goldenboy48 Nope Trumps wall was doing nothing we were at a 20 year high border crossings under Trump. Open border is a right wing term for being ignorant of US code 1158.
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@Goldenboy48 no my beef 8s with Right wing ignorance of what you think is going on. We are not reporting back to their country of origin we ate sending them back to Mexico and then they just cross again because there us no penalty. We already have a law for those crossing illegally and title 42 us keeping us from using it. Title 42 is not an immigration law
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@Goldenboy48 The Biden administrations intention will be to follow our immigration laws that Trump was violating, and laws the Right do not support nor understand. I’m good with that. No, because unlike you I understand how our voting process works and find people who make that claim have a complete lack of critical thinking and understanding of our laws. The wall was a rally call by the low informed who have no idea what our immigration policy needs are. Legal asylum is what the Right calls open border and catch and release, who have never read an immigration law and you have no idea what you are talking about. The judge did not rule on title 42 legality, he ruled that Biden didn’t follow the correct procedure to make a policy change by allowing for giving “notice and a comment process”. A BS partisan decision. Removing title 42 means we move one step closer to going back to a system that was working before Trump dismantled that system for the broken one, we have now. We had a 17-year decline in southern border crossing to the lowest point in 50 years prior to Trump and his polices. By 2019 Trumps policies doubled the number of southern border crossers to 977,000 in 2019. It was only reduced for the first 9 months of 2020 due to covid. By October of 2020 we were back to a 20-year monthly high, it has remained a 20-year high and growing ever since. Trumps policies failed we need to go back to following immigration laws.
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