Subject: Re: NYC HS Students Forced....
I may be speaking for myself but I personally don't care how many are approved as far as that goes.

My concern is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by making it so easy for people to claim asylum.

And we are stuck with astronomical support costs while having zero legal authority to constrict the inflow. All self-imposed, it is insane. The entire world will eventually drag down the lifeboat.

Seems pretty unlikely to "drag down the lifeboat," honestly. As noted above, under the current regulations we see about 30-40% of asylum applications approved. There were just under 500K applications filed last year. We currently approve about 20K-30K asylum requests per year (we don't process all the applications timely, which is why there's a backlog). So if we timely processed all applications within the same year they were filed, you would end up with between 120K-180K additional new legal residents, in a country of 330 million people. Which would be about 0.5% of the U.S. population. We would go from having about 1.1 million new legal residents per year to 1.2-1.3 million new legal residents per year (again, in a country of 330 million people). There might certainly be some costs associated with that - but some of those costs would be offset by benefits, and they couldn't possibly be large enough to support that metaphor.