You can only come if you can afford a plane ticket

And you can get on a plane in your home country.

From an Intercept email:

The latest salvo in the Trump administration’s war on asylum came Tuesday, with a new rule that makes it nigh impossible for someone to get asylum if they arrive at the border via another country. If the rule survives court challenges, John Washington reported, tens of thousands of Central Americans and others who travel through Mexico en route to the U.S. to ask for protection will be ineligible.

We already know the perils faced by asylum-seekers who are turned back to Mexico. Debbie Nathan investigated the fate of people who have to wait for their U.S. court dates in violent border cities under the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols.

“To call that phrase Orwellian is a gross understatement,” Nathan writes. She found cases of rape and kidnapping and a man pursued to Juarez by cartel assassins.

THIS WEEK, THE Trump administration announced an unprecedented rule that would deny tens of thousands of asylum-seekers the chance to find refuge in the United States, imposing a bar to asylum for anybody who has passed through another country without applying for protection and being denied it there. The rule went into effect Tuesday, the day after it was announced, and set off an immediate storm of criticism and outcry.

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The 58-page new rule is “so plainly illegal,” said Kerri Talbot, director of federal advocacy at the Immigration Hub, that attorneys expect it to be quickly blocked in the courts. That was the fate of the first “asylum ban,” issued last November, which would have eliminated asylum for anyone who applied after crossing the border between ports of entry, and which never went into effect.

But asylum-seekers and immigration advocates might be wary of relying on the courts to rein in the Trump administration’s anti-asylum animus, as the administration has successfully instituted a number of policies to outsource immigration enforcement to Mexico.

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The latest executive ukase would not take into account the validity or strength of any asylum claim from someone who has passed through a third country before reaching the U.S.

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BESIDES SEEMING TO baldly disregard U.S. law, the regulation also is, according to Eleanor Acer, director of refugee protection of Human Rights First, in “direct violation” of the U.N. Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol, the latter of which the U.S. is a signatory to.

  The Intercept

Surely Trump can pull us out of that agreement?