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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I think that many of the people currently crossing the border cannot be considered illegal or undocumented. They have applied for asylum, and have been instructed to attend a court hearing at a later date. Doesn't that make them legal and documented residents?
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Not an accurate representation.
You can legally request Asylum in America ONLY at international bridges or ports of entry, basing your request on the fact that your life or well-being is in jeopardy in your country of origin based on one of the following four reasons:
- race,
- religion,
- nationality,
- membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Once you legally apply for asylum at an international bridge or port of entry, you are then a DOCUMENTED alien. A document exists attesting to the fact that you have legally applied for asylum in America.
But just wanting a better-paying job, or reuniting with family, would not be a legitimate reason to request asylum. Because of that, the vast majority crossing our southern border do NOT cross at the legal points, but instead choose to do it illegally, most often with the paid help of people who know how to smuggle people across, assuming that they can just sort of blend in, with people of their own nationality/ethnicity. In all too many cases, they do.
But they are aliens who are here illegally. Hence "Illegal Aliens". That "undocumented" bee ess is just another weary example of "wokeness" trying to deny the truth.