Yes, criminal migrants should be denied asylum

Published December 20, 2019 3:10pm ET



The Trump administration is right to restrict more convicted criminals from claiming asylum in the United States.

As Fox News explains, the new rule introduced by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security this week “would only apply to crimes that had been committed in the U.S., meaning it would mostly target those migrants already in the U.S. or who had been removed from the U.S. and then attempted to re-enter.”

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