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The arrival of desperate asylum seekers at our southern borders is clearly a humanitarian, not a military crisis.

Nonetheless, Trump ordered thousands of U.S. soldiers to the border as window dressing for a political stunt, at an estimated cost of $200 million.

Just some of this administration’s anti-asylum edicts include:

• A narrowed interpretation and a greater burden of proof of credible fear, including denying domestic violence as grounds for asylum.
• Limiting asylum hearings to those arriving at ports of entry, declaring all others “illegal”.  The resulting bottlenecks keep people waiting at the border for weeks without humanitarian support.
• Immediate deportation of anyone declared illegal without the chance of an asylum hearing.
• Separate asylum hearings for parents and children.  Asylum for one family member may be granted and another declined, yet again using the threat of family separation as a deterrent.
• Barring anyone covered by any of Trump’s Presidential proclamations.

Trump feeds xenophobic and racist fears for political gain.  He misuses our military and flouts U.S. and international law.  He ludicrously justifies stopping exhausted families seeking a safe haven in our country by calling them a threat to national security.

Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and have both made their views clear on these inhumane actions. Once again, Where’s Walden?? 

This must stop.  It will take our voices to stop it.