“If you want to apply for asylum, that’s fine. But you should do so in the safety of your home country.”
Fox News host Laura Ingraham argued on her show Wednesday night that asylum seekers shouldn’t make the journey north to the U.S.-Mexico border, but should instead simply apply for asylum “in the safety of [their] home country.”
“If you want to apply for asylum, that’s fine,” Ingraham said. “But you should do so in the safety of your home country or, as is beginning to happen now, once you’re in the United States and you declare [asylum], you should be sent to Mexico until your case comes up for hearing. We have a backlog right now of 800,000 immigration cases.”
Ingraham added that a policy of forcing asylees to make their claims in a country other than the U.S. would discourage migrant families and those “posing” as family units from coming here.