The White House also began resorting to technical deterrents, ordering changes to tighten the asylum system, including moving to charge fees for the first time to those applying for humanitarian refuge. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)There are few tough immigration proposals that Trump has seen as too draconian, aides say. Some White House aides have used legal objections to attenuate his harshest impulses. But he said the White House must pair enforcement with increased foreign aid to alleviate the poverty and violence the migrants are fleeing. “If your goal is to reduce the numbers.”Lapan, the former DHS official, said the biggest rhetorical disconnection is between the president’s tough border talk and calls for Congress to act.

Source: Washington Post May 04, 2019 19:52 UTC