Subject: Re: Our worst enemy
Sure. Guess what all those people have in common. They're here legally.

Now, what do 100% of all illegal immigrants have in common? They're all here in violation of US law.

Right. And what do 100% of all asylum claimants have in common? They're all lawfully permitted to remain in the U.S. Because they're not illegal immigrants - they're lawful asylees.

And they're supposed to be held in detention on arrival until their cases are adjudicated.

They can be held in detention - if you want to pay for that. And pay for a system to take care of all their kids - and 100% be able to reunite them - who are not supposed to be held in detention. But unless you want to pay for feeding and clothing and housing and providing medical care and everything else for those many hundreds of thousands of people...that's the dilemma. Again, the system was built for catching and returning people trying to sneak over the border, not people claiming asylum.

BTW. What stops me from paying a coyote to lash me across the back a few times with a power cord a few weeks before I cross?

Nothing. But it won't do you any good unless you can tell a convincing story, with details that make sense, about who specifically gave you those injuries and for what reason, to a person who's heard literally thousands of people telling variants on that story in order to weed out a third of them to never even make it to an immigration judge. You absolutely wouldn't be the first person to deliberately inflict an injury - or repurpose an old injury - in order to try to clear a CFI. I doubt that you (Dope1) would ever be able to pull it off.