To end illegal immigration, dont fix the asylum system abolish it

Joe Biden’s border crisis is over.It didn’t take new laws, just a new president.But it’s only a temporary reprieve.

What happens next time we get a president — as we will — with Biden’s border philosophy?Nothing can completely Biden-proof the border (as it were).But one important change would make it much harder for a President Jasmine Crockett or President Gavin Newsom to illegally usher in millions more illegal aliens.End asylum.After all, the Democrats’ rationale for admitting all those millions of illegal border-crossers was that they had a “right” to claim asylum, the legal protections offered to political or religious refugees.Many never even bothered to apply, but those who did produced an immigration-court backlog that may never be cleared.That means these illegal-alien applicants will get to stay (and work) here “legally” for years before their hearing dates arrive — having kids, buying homes, putting down roots.And when they lose, as most will, how are we supposed to find and remove them?A new Heritage Foundation report laid out several important ways to reform and restrict asylum.Such changes would be great first steps, but they don’t go nearly far enough.Asylum needs to be abolished altogether.Current asylum law was invented in 1951 to deal with the fallout of World War II and the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe.Three-quarters of a century later, it’s an anachronism, a Cold War relic out of place in today’s very different world.Unlike refugee resettlement, which countries affirmatively choose to do (wisely or not), asylum represents a surrender of national sovereignty.Instead of a country’s government deciding to bring in refugees, asylum means the illegal alien gets to decide, by claiming the legal right to stay in the country he has infiltrated — whether that country’s people like it or not.When asylum involved the defection of a handful of Russian ballerinas, that surrender of national sovereignty was not a big ...