Federal asylum law to change; requiring asylum-seekers to first try elsewhere

[lfromnj]

100% reasonable idea.

The migrants coming are economic and want to abuse asylum laws. Do I want economic migrants who will likely contribute to the economy? Yes.
 
But these people literally cross half a dozen countries to get to the USA. Even Mexico itself is large enough that large parts of the country are free from violence to a degree.  If Mexico accepts the asylum request then they are simply choosing beggars and not refugees.

[lfromnj]

This more or less would mean almost no asylum claims would be valid anymore, right?

I guess it wouldn't affect Venezuelan refugees who generally come through planes.

[lfromnj]

This will be shot down in court simply because the US does not have a Safe Third Country Agreement with Mexico. The US only has such a law with Canada. Without that agreement with Mexico, US law does not recognize Mexico as a safe third country and, therefore, migrants cannot be rejected for asylum in the US on the basis that they should've applied for asylum in Mexico instead. That's simply not permissible under existing American asylum laws.

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It should be shot down, but there will be a lot of suffering in the meantime, and I don't have faith in the Supreme Court to uphold the actual law, and it will work its way there.

How is there any suffering? All we are saying is just don't claim asylum as you pass through other safe zones just to get into a 1st world country.