Correct me if I'm wrong, but your historical narrative left me with the impression that you think of Trump as the precipitating factor, the beginning of the chain of events that led us to the current juncture. I was expecting to see, instead, a discussion of the dramatic increase in asylum claims over the past eight years, which in turn is a result of an overloaded system since 2010, which has created increasingly strong incentives to make false claims for asylum (because the average wait time for a hearing is over 4 years: https://trac.syr.edu/reports/705/ ). That context is essential to understanding the purpose of the proposed policy: it's to reset potential migrants' expectations about the likelihood that making a false asylum claim will give them years to settle in the U.S.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your historical narrative left me with the impression that you think of Trump as the precipitating factor, the beginning of the chain of events that led us to the current juncture. I was expecting to see, instead, a discussion of the dramatic increase in asylum claims over the past eight years, which in turn is a result of an overloaded system since 2010, which has created increasingly strong incentives to make false claims for asylum (because the average wait time for a hearing is over 4 years: https://trac.syr.edu/reports/705/ ). That context is essential to understanding the purpose of the proposed policy: it's to reset potential migrants' expectations about the likelihood that making a false asylum claim will give them years to settle in the U.S.
More generally, it's also worth noting that the number of immigrants (as a share of total population) is at its highest level since 1910: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time