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Originally Posted by JMintzer
That says nothing about entering ILLEGALLY... Once you have done that, you've committed a crime...
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Okay, you are right.
President Trump changed the law in 2019, making it illegal to seek asylum anywhere except at a port of entry. This is where my confusion came from. Prior to that, US law conformed to iknte4rnational law adopted at the Geneva convention that all countries agreed to - including the US. And the US adopted those rules into law by Congress. That was reversed by, President Trump.
However, the law still is that if you are in the US and have been for less than a year, you can apply for asylum. Even if you got here illegally.