Mr. Chairman. in the name of making our borders more secure this throws out all judicial protections to anybody seeking refuge in the United States. What we do is hand over the entire role of judge. jury. in complicated asylum determinations to Border Patrol people who have no background in the law dealing with people. many of them refugees from communism or vicious dictatorships around the world who may have spent months or years traveling to get to the United States where they finally seek to find a land of justice. and they are met at the border or at the airport or wherever it may be by a patrolman and challenged. That patrolman is not likely to understand the immigration laws or what constitutes grounds for asylum. yet he is going to make the final determination. Where there are groups involved this may very well be a mass determination without any opportunity for the person to have his case for refuge from repression heard by anybody who is competent. Furthermore. this just tosses out the action which the House just took with respect to class actions.
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