The asylum loophole is breaking the border; Trump’s new directive is a good start at fixing it

Published April 30, 2019 2:08pm ET



President Trump has finally stopped banging his head against “THE WALL” and turned his attention to our absurd asylum law, which has led to the near collapse of our whole immigration system, such that we ever had a “system.”

It’s going to come with a legal fight that the White House may very well lose, but it’s the fight the country needs. Even in defeat, there will be some success in just having elevated the issue so that people can see the wreckage at our southern border created by our immigration law’s gaping asylum hole.

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