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s0nicfan posted...

To the point saying the 10,000 people will just get processed... even at 50 requests processed a day (which included background checks), that's still 200 days. Assuming the US govt employees aren't working weekends, that's 40 work weeks. So we're presuming that 10,000 people are going to just wait patiently for the better part of a year, through the winter, while their applications are processed? And they're going to do this in Mexico?

Even the ~3K or so there right now will take about 3 months at the rates above.

And that presumes some sort of rushed process. The actual asylum process takes between 6 months and several years per person and is horribly backed up:
https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-u-s-asylum-process/

Under the defensive asylum process, applicants must go through the immigration court system, which faces significant backlogs. As of July 2018, there were over 733,000 pending immigration cases and the average wait time for an immigration hearing was 721 days. The backlog has been worsening over the past decade as the funding for immigration judges has failed to keep pace with an increasing case load.

Well you can deny all the Central Americans outright because they are doing it wrong. You apply in the nearest country: Mexico. You dont get to shop around when applying for asylum.
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