How Do We Stop Asylum Fraud? | Lora Ries

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s clear that the Trump administration’s commitment to securing the southern border is working. But the question now is, how do we keep it working? What changes need to be made to the immigration system to keep us from heading back to the uncontrolled illegal migration of the Biden years?

One critical component, argues Heritage Immigration expert Lora Ries, is the reform of the asylum system, ensuring that people who are genuinely in danger have access, while discouraging fraudulent claims.

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Lora’s report on Heritage.org: https://www.heritage.org/border-security/report/the-us-must-redesign-asylum-law-21st-century-reality-and-put-america-first

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.7	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.3	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.5	To remind the current regime.
0:18.6	We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.
0:22.5	All the action to get back in their box and stay there.
0:28.0	Lift-off.
0:28.9	We have a lift-down.
0:31.8	From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.
0:48.7	Yeah. This is Heritage Explains. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection website contains a lot of really interesting information,
0:54.9	including an interactive graph of the number of migrant encounters on the southern border over time.
1:00.9	Since 2022, the number of migrant encounters has been well over 200,000 per month,
1:07.0	peaking as high as 300,000 in December of 2023.
1:11.6	The data is current up until February of this year.
1:14.6	The number of border encounters in that month, just under 12,000.
1:20.6	It's clear that the Trump administration's commitment to securing the southern border is working.
1:25.6	But the question now is, how do we keep it working?
1:29.7	What changes need to be made to the immigration system to keep us from heading back to the
1:33.8	uncontrolled illegal immigration of the Biden years?
1:37.7	One critical component, argues heritage immigration expert Laura Rees, is the reform of the
1:42.3	asylum system, ensuring that people who are genuinely in danger
1:46.2	have access while discouraging fraudulent claims. Here's Laura to talk about that issue.
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