Turley on “squatter” illegal aliens
The left knows that they can exploit our legal system to assure that when aliens enter this country illegally they cannot be easily deported, especially if they claim asylum. And various pro-illegal-alien groups (apparently many funded by taxpayer dollars, as DOGE has documented) have spread word far and wide, especially in Latin America but also elsewhere. A handy app to facilitate asylum claims (most of which are bogus) has also been provided, and all such claims must be heard.
Jonathan Turley has written a good piece on this phenomenon [hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”], which can be found here and is entitled “Squatter Syndrome: How the Inefficiencies of Our Legal System Are Making a Mockery of Our Immigration Laws.” Of course, it’s not just the inefficiencies, it’s the inefficiencies purposely exploited by the left. As Turley explains:
In courtrooms across the country, the nation seems trapped in a type of Squatter Syndrome, a macro version of the housing cases. The slowness of the removal process is being used to keep millions in the country indefinitely. It may prove to be President Joe Biden’s most lasting legacy, a de facto residency by simply overwhelming the system by the sheer number of unlawful entries. …
For years, the Biden Administration claimed that it could not close the Southern border without immigration reform, including the new pathways to citizenship. Donald Trump then effectively shut down the border in a matter of weeks with the same authority that Biden had for four years. Entries are down a breathtaking 97 percent under Trump.
The record conclusively shows that Biden and the Democrats could have closed the border at any time but chose to keep it open despite daily images of waves of migrants entering the country. These same politicians knew that, once in the country, it would be practically impossible to remove a significant number of these individuals due to a court system that takes years actually to deport an individual. They become de facto resident aliens and Democrats then insist that the length of their time in the country warrants a pathway to citizenship.
It’s a ratchet that tends to work only one way. Easy in, difficult out. To the left this is a major feature rather than a bug, and they have currently enlisted leftist-friendly judges to help them block Trump from carrying out the will of the people.
Those of us who are on the right have long known this was the leftist plan; it was quite obvious. And that’s one of the reasons why the Biden administration’s loud and repeated insistence – that they needed Congress to stop the “invasion” and that it was the GOP that hadn’t cooperated with Democrat efforts to stop it – was such an obvious lie, a lie broadcasted by a cooperative press. Luckily, the lie didn’t have the desired effect of facilitating Kamala Harris’ election or Democrat control of Congress in November of 2024. But the illegal arrivals remain; at least, the vast majority of them do.
NOTE: Turley’s piece ends with suggestions for speeding things up in the courts. It’s well worth reading.
“Of course, it’s not just the inefficiencies [of our legal system], it’s the inefficiencies purposely exploited by the left . . . . Those of us who are on the right have long known this was the leftist plan; it was quite obvious.”
And major credit goes to Columbia Professors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven: overwhelm the system in order to to crush it / transform it, although Cloward and Piven tailored their strategy to the welfare system rather than to the immigration system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
It’s time for the executive to ignore the Democratic operatives in robes and just send them home.
At this point, the only satisfactory solution would be (a) Operation Wetback 2.0 and then for legal immigration the equivalent of zero base budgeting i.e. each FY begins with the assumption that the actual number of admissible foreigners is “none”. Then we let in only those who would be advantageous for political, cultural, economic, or strategic reasons, plus a handful of refugees. Sob stories, most of which are phony baloney to begin with, need not apply.
Extreme? Maybe. But what’s been allowed to go on for the last 60 years is Extreme as well.
Re: Squatters
I was wondering if this post was about people squatting in temporarily vacant homes with paperwork faking they were owners.
It can take quite a while for the legal wheels to turn.
Apparently that issue is still hanging fire. Only Florida and Georgia have passed laws taking away the loopholes.
Deporting illegals individually is not feasible.
Mass self-deportation is feasible.
Make it a really bad idea to hire a person who is not authorized to be here. Any business who expenses such a hire is guilty of tax fraud, with heavy financial and in egregious cases criminal penalties for any entity that does not ascertain an employee’s status. This will require a workable online database that makes it easy to check a person’s status in real time.
Bonus: The same system can be used to check eligibility to vote, also.
Increase penalties to whatever is needed to eliminate under-the-table employment. Make it hurt.
No government paid social services to anyone not authorizes to be here. People who object to this policy are free to provide such services at their own expense, but no SNAP, no housing, no healthcare at federal expense, and no access to the legal system for them to sue for denial of anything.
West TX Intermediate Crude,
But the vast majority are “authorized to be here.” During Biden’s reign they were given asylum status and are permitted to live in the U.S. until their asylum hearings, which can be up to 7 years from their initial processing as asylum seekers.
Those who violate U.S. law can be removed, and that is what Homan is focusing on, but the rest, technically, are due their day in court.
As I’ve also been saying for years, West TX Intermediate Crude has “the right of it”.
‘Yes, it is a criminal offense in the USA to knowingly hire an unauthorized alien, particularly if it involves a pattern or practice of doing so. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made it illegal for employers to hire, recruit, or refer for a fee an alien knowing they are unauthorized to work in the U.S.”
Plus, charge employers of illegals with harboring illegals.
“Yes, it is a criminal offense in the United States to knowingly harbor, conceal, or shield an undocumented individual from detection by immigration authorities. This is outlined in 8 U.S.C. § 1324.”
NO jobs + NO benefits = self-deportation.
As for the NGOs facilitating illegal immigration, charge them with RICO violations. Remember; the process is the punishment. They’ve set the rules they wish to play by, so ‘respect’ that choice. No more Mr. Nice Guy…
One of the problems is that it is also illegal to ask a prospective employee their immigration status, nor is discovering an employee isn’t legally in the country sufficient grounds to fire them.
Note that this takes most of the teeth out of the two laws Geoffrey Britain cites because it is very difficult to knowingly hire someone in a category you aren’t allowed to ask about.
Yes, some areas require an employer use E-Verify with new employees. Which means they learn about immigration status after the hiring process. And again, you can’t fire someone for being in the country illegally, and since you can’t ask them about that status while hiring, you can’t fire them for misrepresenting their qualifications to be hired. (Just applying for the position doesn’t seem to count as a claim that the applicant can be legally hired.)
Point is, the law as a whole is very schizophrenic on this issue, even if each individual law seems to take a firm stance. It’s another example of where, if you want anything like a permanent answer, you need Congress to do their job and fix the black letter law.
Geoffrey, West TX and Boobah,
Please read this:
https://shorelineimmigration.com/asylum/work-while-my-asylum-case-is-pending/
The government contractor that operates the Hanford Nuclear reservation changed recently and everyone had to again provide verification of US citizenship (passport, SS card, or Drivers License and Certified copy of Birth Certificate) or be terminated. The same drill that I had gone through less than three years earlier, and many times before when working on this federal facility. I’m not sure if the can’t fire a worker who hasn’t the papers isn’t just a wink, wink/ nod, nod. Enforced depending on political considerations.
Rufus, thanks for that educational and depressing link.
How much of this is law passed by Congress, and how much is policy that was put into place by a bureaucrat, that can be changed by the administration?
Isn’t there a law that an asylee has to request asylum status in the first place he arrives after escaping the hellhole of origin? That would make only Mexicans and Canadians eligible (also the people who Biden flew in directly from Venezuela, etc.).
“… a ratchet that tends to work only one way …”.
Isn’t that the point of a ratchet?
LTEC:
Yes, an actual ratchet only works one way. But this is a metaphor, and so I tried to explain that it’s a ratchet that TENDS to only work one way. Obviously, when someone is deported, it works the other way. But most illegal aliens are not deported.
@ Neo > “But most illegal aliens are not deported.”
Yet.
The more useful ratchets have a switch so they can tighten (right tightly) or loosen (lefty loosely). But that is only practical, every day, guy stuff (but also known by handy, practical gals).
The difference between a metaphor and life?
Again, almost none of these people are refugees. Give them a pro-forma four minute hearing at the airport.
From: https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum (emphasis mine)
A lot of wiggle room in that definition for Judges sympathetic to the cause and there are groups who coach illegal aliens on the law and terminology so they know what words to use to qualify.
Democrats are very comfortable with using lawfare to through a wrench (or ratchet) into any political action that goes against their goals.
West TX,
Yes, asylees are supposed to seek asylum in the first, safe country they reach. Trump used that to get Mexico to hold many asylum seekers during his first term. Biden rescinded Trump’s Executive Order.
I assume the link to Turkey’s piece is in red text and that the word “here” is red.
I say “assume” because I’m one of the approx. 8% of men who are red-green colorblind.
So I say to The New Neo and other bloggers, please consider using blue text to highlight links. Or maybe underline them.
Love you. Keep up the good work.
<"throw a wrench," not "through."
Yeesh!
Well the democrats tried twice to gain the White House through a wench. And one is near enough Nurse Ratchet.
“DeSantis sets pace for GOP governors on immigration”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/florida-gov-ron-desantis-sets-pace-gop-governors-immigration/
President Trump proposes reopening Alcatraz Prison “to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” Until the penultimate sentence I thought he meant homegrown miscreants as well as illegal aliens, which IMO would be a good idea.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114452025916969327
RTF, I suspect 99% of us read right through “through” and understood your meaning when we got to “wrench”.
Which led me to recall a language exercise I found some years ago, where they kept the correct first and last letter of the words in a body of prose, but either scrambled the other letters or removed the vowels, but after just a few seconds of “reading” the text, your mind caught on and was able to fill in or adjust the letters to provide the correct understanding.
Sometimes our minds are truly versatile “detectives”.