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Message: <blockquote data-quote="newfie" data-source="post: 6087429" data-attributes="member: 58700">there is a process for legitimate asylum seekers that goes through the judiciary not the president. what trump has done is to deny those who have to travel through other countries to get here to request asylum since true asylum seekers just need a country to escape to and should not be able to pick and choose the country they find most desirable. the president can however add to the process. for instance if a war torn country is overwhelming those countries around it then the president can choose to accept some of those asylum seekers to aid the relief effort. this case is interesting because dems have been able to define those in need of asylum as being people of color where in this case the legitimate seekers are white.</blockquote>