Kris Kobach Tells Dobbs ‘Solution’ to Asylum Seekers is to Keep Them ‘Confined’ in a ‘Camp’
“Well, Lou, the solution to this crisis is actually a fairly easy one,” said Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Tuesday. That was his lead-in to his three part “solution” to crisis and caravans, and it was hailed as brilliant by Dobbs.
The discussion focused particularly on asylum-seekers and the caravans in the interview for Lou Dobbs Tonight on FBN. Dobbs started out the interview saying that it is “stunning” to hear DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen say the border is in meltdown after “she has waited six weeks from the time the President declared a national emergency to seek emergency authorities.”
Kobach started with the above quote. “The solution to this crisis is actually a fairly easy one,” he said, then immediately corrected. “I won’t say easy, but it’s three major steps–these steps should have been taken months ago, and I don’t know why the agency has sat on its hands for so long.”
He proceeded then to go through each step of his “easy not easy” solution. The first was to “publish the Flores Settlement regulation.”
“This would be a regulation that ends the Flores Settlement and defines how we can detain families together,” he said. “That should be done immediately, then that will stop the caravans from using children as get out of jail free cards.”
Dobbs suggested it hasn’t been done yet because “Kirstjen Nielsen’s working for the Chamber of Commerce” and not for Trump. Kobach didn’t offer an opinion on that, but said that step one would be a “an easy step to do.”
The second part of his three part solution was the “camps” step.
“Number two, Lou, and this one is: deploy immediately dozens of immigration judges, as well as a fleet of passenger planes, and the thousands of empty mobile home trailers that the United States owns right now, and is attempting to sell at bargain prices on the internet,” he said. He explained then what to do with the trailers.
“Instead of selling them, deploy them to border cities, and create processing towns that are confined,” he said. “And so when someone comes in and falsely claims asylum, we don’t release them for six months onto the streets of the United States.
“We process them right there, in that camp,” he said. He called it a “camp.”
He quickly added that it’s a “camp” where they they “have the three square meals, they’re living in a nice mobile home.
He said that once they are quickly “rejected” and “on the next plane back home” that other migrants will think “maybe going in these caravans isn’t such a great deal.”
He re-emphasized that asylum claims would be processed right there at the border in the camps, and those detained families and asylum seekers won’t disappear. “Process the claims right there, at the border, and not release these people,” he said.
His third step was that the United States should propose a regulation to prevent “remittances” from anyone who can’t prove they are in the U.S. legally, and then use that proposed legislation as leverage.
“If you did those three things then we’d solve the problem, Lou,” said Kobach. He then added to “continue building the wall” as part of the solution.
Dobbs praised Kobach for having come up with “more answers in five minutes” than the DHS has in “quite some time.” But Dobbs was not alone in that praise.
Later in the show, Republican campaign consultant and advisor Ed Rollins was equally impressed.
“I thought all three of them were great suggestions and they should be implemented tomorrow,” said Rollins. “I hope the president watches the show tonight and basically makes it happen tomorrow.”
Watch the clip above, courtesy of Fox Business Network.
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