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Trump Signs Immigration Order on Asylum

© REUTERS / Adrees LatifA man from El Salvador holds his passport in the back of a U.S. border patrol vehicle after he is apprehended for illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, U.S., October 17, 2018
A man from El Salvador holds his passport in the back of a U.S. border patrol vehicle after he is apprehended for illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, U.S., October 17, 2018 - Sputnik International
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Earlier this month, at a campaign rally in Missouri, US President Donald Trump said that "the illegal aliens will no longer get a free pass into the country by lodging meritless claims in seeking asylum."

US President Donald Trump signed on Friday a proclamation that would prevent immigrants from qualifying for asylum if they entered the United States illegally.

"We need people in our country but they have to come in legally and they have to have merit," Trump said Friday before departing for Paris.

The Department of Justice said in a press release on Friday that migrants who illegally enter the United States through the southern border with Mexico will be ineligible for asylum. Currently, migrants who enter the United States illegally between ports of entry are able to apply for asylum.

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At the same time, the United States has suspended the entry of migrants through the southern border between ports of entry for three months, according to the proclamation.

"The entry of any alien into the United States across the international boundary between the United States and Mexico is hereby suspended and limited, subject to section 2 of this proclamation," the document said. "That suspension and limitation shall expire 90 days after the date of this proclamation or the date on which an agreement permits the United States to remove aliens to Mexico."

The current suspension concerns only those migrants who will enter the United States after November 10, when the new rule comes into force.

Senior US administration officials said during a conference call on Thursday that they were working to ensure they had the resources and manpower at the ports of entry to prepare for any large number of asylum seekers arriving at the border.

A migrant carrying the flags of Mexico and Honduras gives a thumbs-up to a moto rickshaw driver who stopped to take their picture, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central Americans hoping to reach the U.S. border moves onward from Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Thousands of migrants resumed their slow trek through southern Mexico on Thursday, after attempts to obtain bus transport to Mexico City failed - Sputnik International
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The decision comes amid a huge crisis, as some 7,000 migrants, according to UN estimates, are moving towards the US southern border in a bid to obtain asylum.

In an attempt to prevent the migrants from coming into the US, Trump threatened to cut off foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador because the governments of the countries failed to crack down on illegal immigration.

After failing to meet this goal, Trump said that the US was deploying 5,000 military personnel to the US-Mexico border. Currently, there are more than 5,600 US troops deployed to the border mission, with about 550 actually working on the border in Texas.

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