The influx of migrants is 'a humanitarian crisis that demands a humanitarian response,' columnist Scott Martelle writes.
— to try to stymie human smuggling networks. And it has asked Congress for additional funding to expand its capacity for handling newly arrived migrants. Unfortunately, that has come in the form of requests to vastly expand the detention system that it already can’t get right.
And the government shouldn’t be relying on detentions in the first place. Remember, the detainees at places like Adelanto by and large are people accused of violating civil rather than criminal laws, or who inof cases are exercising their legally and international recognized right to seek asylum. They should only be detained if the government can make an individualized case that they pose a flight risk or a threat to public safety or national security as their applications are processed.
The administration also has sought additional money from Congress to continue to expand the capacity of the immigration courts to adjudicate the cases. That is a key part of the problem. If it is true, as the government argues, that migrants show up and claim asylum knowing they will be released pending a potentially years-long review process, one solution is to give them a faster answer.
But for the most part, the Trump approach has been to deter or try to shut off access to asylum, from charging border crossers seeking asylum with a misdemeanor count of illegal entry to
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