Seeking asylum ‘impossible’ under Trump, expert says

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, says the Trump administration has eliminated almost all legal pathways for asylum-seekers wanting to enter the United States. Reichlin-Melnick appeared on Border Report Live on Wednesday. He tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles that it is effectively impossible to seek asylum at the southern border. “Migrants cannot go to ports of entry to seek asylum. And even the limited ways in which they were processing people in ports of entry in Trump’s first term have been cut off,” he said. His comments come after the release of a McAllen family that had been recently detained by ICE. An ICE official earlier this week said the family had “illegally” entered the United States in May 2023. They were detained and arrested when they went for a mandatory routine meeting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Feb. 25.