[zachYCB]

It sounds like she arrived without being on any sort of Visa. I haven’t found any mentions of one, other than she’s a pending asylum case. That could just mean she walked up through the border and claimed asylum.

It really shouldn’t come as a surprise, I think. If you walk into another country without a valid reason to be there, you’re going to be asked to leave. Honduras isn’t currently at war, and a ton of people are abusing the asylum process for purely economic reasons. I feel like articles like this are trying to paint this behavior as cruel and unusual, but it is just the usual.

[seanmcdirmid]

The refugee process isn’t based on visas, you show up and ask for asylum. It’s been like that for a long time. They aren’t undocumented, they have documents, it isn’t a visa, but there is, or was, at least, an agreement to stay until their case is heard. Trump was basically like “I don’t care what judges say, I’m king and they go”. And here we are.

[zachYCB]

> The refugee process isn’t based on visas

I wasn’t implying that. I specifically mentioned walking to the border. I was saying what you did in fewer words.

The wait times for these judgments were turning into multi-year long stints in the country. And there’s no guarantee someone would show up for their hearing (although if the numbers are to be believed, they usually did).

If Trump is doing this without the popular support of the people, then yeah, he’s behaving like a king. But this is what conservatives largely voted him in for. Among people voting for Trump, immigration is usually their first or second concern besides maybe “the economy” — and the two aren’t divorced from each other. So I don’t think that’s particularly anti-democratic like you say.

[seanmcdirmid]

> If Trump is doing this without the popular support of the people, then yeah, he’s behaving like a king.

America is deeply divided, > 30%, < 45% of the American public believe in what Trump is doing, ~50% are horrified. Trump isn't listening to the courts, it is basically the first time in American recent history where we've had to deal with an executive, whose is responsible for enforcing federal judicial decisions, just ignoring them. America might not survive this intact, actually the odds of America simply breaking apart are growing everyday of this adminstration.

> So I don’t think that’s particularly anti-democratic like you say.

Yes, he has his core support. But it is at least anti-american, even if you don't think it is anti-american.