The Trump administration has reached an immigration asylum deal with the Caribbean island nation of Dominica.
The deal means that some migrants who try to seek asylum in the United States will now be sent to Dominica instead, according to the Associated Press.
The deal was reportedly reached after the Trump administration “hit” Dominica with partial U.S. travel restrictions.
“Dominica’s government has been in talks with U.S. officials to try to resolve the U.S. entry limitations,” the AP noted.
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What remains unclear is how soon the deal will go into effect.
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit stressed in a statement that he wants to “avoid receiving violent individuals or individuals who will compromise the security of Dominica.”
The AP hilariously enough reported that because of Dominica’s population size of only 72,000, locals are extremely “concerned about whether the island has enough resources to absorb asylum-seekers into its population.”
For some reason, the AP and other liberal outlets never raise this concern when talking about the United States embracing endless hordes of asylum seekers.
As for Dominica, the country’s opposition party leader, Thomson Fontaine, doesn’t appear to be a fan of the deal.
“The prime minister still has not told the Dominican public what exactly he has agreed to, in terms of the numbers of persons that are going to come to Dominica, where will they be housed, how will they be taken care of,” he complained to the AP.
If an American politician raised similar concerns about the type of asylum seekers being accepted into the United States, the leftist AP would likely call them a bigot.
Speaking of which, last week, Politico complained that the Trump administration “is asking courts to summarily dismiss asylum claims without a hearing and send migrants to a third country where they can pursue relief, even if they have no connection to that place.”
“Asylum was not designed to provide people a backdoor way to get to a country of their choosing,” a senior administration official told the left-wing outlet.
“If the United States is confident that they can be successfully removed to another country where they will not be threatened, then there’s no reason or expectation that they should be allowed to remain here,” they added.
But the leftist advocates that Politico found alleged that these policies are an erosion of rights.
“The administration wants to demolish our humanitarian protection system,” said Rebekah Wolf of the American Immigration Council. “They do not want to have people have the ability to apply for asylum in the United States.”
To Politico’s credit, it did seek a response from the Trump administration over Wolf’s allegation.
“They shouldn’t care about what specific location,” a Trump administration official said. “Many [immigration groups] somehow think that it’s bad to be doing this — that everyone should get a hearing, no matter anything else. But the reality from our perspective is, it is the law. And you may disagree with the law, but the way to address that is through Congress.”
Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies also defended the administration.
“No one who has passed through other countries where they’re not being persecuted should get asylum [in the United States],” he adamantly insisted to Politico.
“If you’ve passed through other countries, you’ve effectively ignored other opportunities to claim asylum. It’s a way to deter bogus asylum claims,” he added.
Returning to the asylum deal, the AP reported that the Trump administration “has signed similar deals with countries, including Belize and Paraguay, as it continues to pressure countries in Latin America and Africa to take asylum-seekers.”
Indeed, another deal announced Monday included Antigua and Barbuda, which inked a deal “as part of its global efforts to share responsibility for refugees already present in its territory.”
“Local government officials said Antigua and Barbuda would not be accepting anyone with a criminal record,” according to the AP.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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