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Biden couldn’t have done this day one? He waited till it was campaign season and illegal immigration was dragging his re-election down (not that he’s in it anymore, obviously)?

Behind Biden’s asylum halt: Migrants must say if they fear deportation, not wait to be asked

Posters inside a complex of giant, white tents tell migrants in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi they should tell an officer if they fear being deported and “your claim will be heard.” On a side wall where migrants are seated in a processing area, a video conveys the same message on a loop.

Breaking from a practice in effect since 1997, Border Patrol agents at the holding facility in Tucson, Arizona, and throughout the country no longer ask migrants if they fear deportation. President Joe Biden’s administration temporarily suspended asylum at the border June 5 and, as part of that move, agents do not ask about fears. Migrants must bring it up themselves.

Immigration advocates call it the “shout test” — suggesting migrants must shout their fears — though agents are taught to respond to other signs of distress, such as crying, shaking or a change in tone of voice and to refer migrants for screening if the behavior appears genuine. Anyone not screened can be immediately deported.

How many are being immediately deported? Almost none, if any. How many are reading the posters in the waiting room after they’ve been picked up and immediately making their declaration? It completely invalidates the notion of the border agents no longer asking. And, if some people are flying from the other side of the world, they are not in danger: they have the economic means to invade the U.S., knowing that Biden will deport a small percentage.

If they pass screening at a higher standard, migrants can stay in the U.S. to pursue protections similar to asylum, like those under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. In doing so, the administration argued it is complying with U.S. and international law prohibiting sending people to countries where they face persecution or torture.

The US should only be complying with U.S. law. That’s it. And, since only a bit under 10% qualify for asylum, they should be held and processed immediately, then sent packing, rather than be released into the U.S. on their on recognizance, where the government now has to take care of them.

Those who consider Biden’s policies too soft play down the “shout test” — and the asylum halt broadly — as too little, too late. Robert Law, director for homeland security and immigration at the America First Policy Institute, said the test may have limited impact but not for long.

“Eventually the word will get out to those who are coaching those who are trying to take advantage of the asylum system,” said Law, who dealt with asylum as chief of policy at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services during former President Donald Trump’s administration.

Yes, it will get out.

Massachusetts migrant-family shelter program has had 300-plus ‘Serious Incident’ reports this year: ‘Very disturbing’

More than 300 “Serious Incident” reports have been recorded at Bay State migrant-family shelter program sites so far this year, the Herald has learned.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities has listed a total of 316 Serious Incident reports at hotels, congregate sites, scattered sites, and co-shelters in the Emergency Assistance family shelter program.

The Herald obtained the Bay State’s “Serious Incident Reports Tracker Data” through a public records request after previously revealing how many people had been kicked out of the migrant-family shelter program for “inappropriate actions.”

Illegal immigration advocates will say “but, Americans do crime!” Yes, but, these are not Americans, and they shouldn’t be here, so, that crime rate should be zero.

Don’t forget, this is all on Kamala Harris: she’s the VP of this administration, and Biden made her border czar.

Read: Illegals Must Now State They Fear Deportation, Rather Than Being Asked »