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by culot 2382 days ago
So if you don't detain them you do what then? Let them roam free? Considering the amount of fraud related to asylum claims, with entire legal entities dedicated to coaching aliens to provide fake testimony, letting them roam free is a definite risk for citizens. Especially as they are coming from one of the most violent warlord-controlled warzones in the hemisphere.
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This whole problem could be precluded by doing a few simple steps:

1. Build a wall to control flow.

2. Allow anyone to come to the border and seek asylum.

3. Have enough humane beds/housing to store them at the border while their application is processed.

4. Hire enough officials and judges to process all claims timeously.

5. Fingerprint, photograph and document anyone that applies.

6. Turn away all individuals that re-apply without new evidence and attempt to clog the system by creating too much load.

Oh and 7: If they come as a family, let them stay together under monitoring.

And corollary to 7 would be 8: Do DNA tests on all family groups to affirm family status to prevent trafficking

At this point, if no hiccups arise, the wall is only necessary for those that wish to bypass a well-functioning system designed to treat people humanely and allow them to get refuge if they are being persecuted.

Edit: fixed formatting.