Kate on November 2, 2018 at 9:25 am at 9:25 am said:
Yes to what Art Deco says at 9:13 a.m. Plus, the law says “may apply” for asylum, not that asylum must be granted. I see no bar to using illegal entry as a reason to refuse the asylum request.
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This.

I think during the Newseum era (1955-95) there was a sense of professionalism which tended to contain the worst abuses. Also, look at the Kilgallens, father and daughter, and what they had to say about their vocation. Bennett Cerf said he and Arlene Francis never cared for Dorothy Kilgallen’s politics (Hearst loyalist), but he did aver that she was a terrier as a reporter, and when she got wind of a story, she would never let it go. She wanted to tell stories. Her father just ‘ere his death listed all the sorts of stories he’d covered in nearly 80 years in the reporter’s trade, “In what other line of work would I have seen such action?”.

I’d note in this connection Fred Barnes recollection of his years working on opinion magazines during the period running from 1985 to 2000. He said when he worked for The New Republic, a dissenting liberal magazine, newspapers were calling all the time trying to recruit their interns and staff writers. Barnes was always the odd man out there and when The Weekly Standard was founded in 1995, he was hired there. He said during his years at The Standard, they had interns and staff writers of equal quality to those at TNR, but there were no recruiting calls. IIRC, he could recall one person who’d worked at The Standard who had been hired by a provincial metropolitan newspaper during the period running from 1995 to 2000. Newspapers were going out of their way to not hire people who had worked for the starboard press. I note that at that time you could readily find print reporters who had worked at Pacifica and at Out. Jonah Goldberg offered that he discovered to hie surprise working at the defunct Brill’s Content (a media review) that the place was shot through with veterans of Mother Jones.

Barnes landed his first reporting job in 1965. His frame of reference was there.

(2) Exceptions
(A) Safe third country
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien if the Attorney General determines that the alien may be removed, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement, to a country (other than the country of the alien’s nationality or, in the case of an alien having no nationality, the country of the alien’s last habitual residence) in which the alien’s life or freedom would not be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and where the alien would have access to a full and fair procedure for determining a claim to asylum or equivalent temporary protection, unless the Attorney General finds that it is in the public interest for the alien to receive asylum in the United States.

I think this is coming quickly unless Mexico wants to see the border closed and all those Mexican trucks, that are now hauling “Migrants” north, barred from US highways.