With regard to the asylum situation, it makes sense to bracket politics, but I hope you'll consider the more challenging aspects of the *policy* situation: the (I think) unprecedented rate of arrivals (partly driven by a perceived leniency) and the huge backlog in the system for processing asylum claims.
Yes, definitely. Part of the solution needs to be funding to hire many more immigration judges to hear asylum cases, but unfortunately, my understanding of the failed bill is that it instead was going to hire more asylum officers to hear migrants' initial asylum claims, while giving them more incentives to deny those initial claims and limiting migrants' ability to appeal and have their case heard by an immigration judge. I will double check my understanding before I write the post, but it will definitely include the issues you raise. (Sorry for the late response!)
With regard to the asylum situation, it makes sense to bracket politics, but I hope you'll consider the more challenging aspects of the *policy* situation: the (I think) unprecedented rate of arrivals (partly driven by a perceived leniency) and the huge backlog in the system for processing asylum claims.
Yes, definitely. Part of the solution needs to be funding to hire many more immigration judges to hear asylum cases, but unfortunately, my understanding of the failed bill is that it instead was going to hire more asylum officers to hear migrants' initial asylum claims, while giving them more incentives to deny those initial claims and limiting migrants' ability to appeal and have their case heard by an immigration judge. I will double check my understanding before I write the post, but it will definitely include the issues you raise. (Sorry for the late response!)