The US has a rule about applying for asylum at designated ports of entry. That is not the international law that they signed up to. There are two main problems with the rule. 1. Some people can’t get to the designated ports of entry. 2. There are many people who have been waiting at the designated ports for a long time waiting to be seen. Some people can’t afford to do that, so they try getting into the country another way. That way they have people who will support them while they go through the process.

Trump says that no one ever comes back for their asylum hearing if they get free via the catch and release process. It’s not true. In 2016 (latest year figures available) 75% came back. In areas where special programmes in place to get people back, the figure was 90%. Clearly, asylum is not a red herring.

I’m sorry, but that’s an asinine comparison. We have laws against racial & other class discrimination. Any policies enforcing racial segregation would be unconstitutional. Our immigration laws are constitutional and race neutral as constructed.

There seems to be some confusion here. First, the only legal way to seek asylum is to present oneself at a designated port of entry. So even if the intention of these people crossing in the middle of AZ desert is to seek asylum, they have violated the law.

Second, it is preposterous to think that before being apprehended, they had any intention of formally applying for asylum. They would’ve gone to ground, aided & abetted by the illegal community and the Catholic Church.

The whole asylum thing is a desperate red herring.

Let’s be clear: are you saying that:

a) trump and Sessions’ motivations are racist? (I’d say rather just sadistic)?

and/or

b) anyone who supports strict enforcement of our immigration laws (which inevitably will lead to separation of children from their parents) is motivated by racism?

Yes, of course he’s fictional, but he has a venerable ancestral line, I think the oldest dates from 1894, “the new boy” saying “What’s the good of anything? — Nothing!”, he hadn’t acquired his AEN name yet.
Some contend the lad was an anti-Irish caricature, Mickey Dugan (aka the ‘Yellow Kid’, after his yellow robe), but I doubt that was him, only a superficial resemblance.
He also acquired some notoriety as stooge for Antikamnia tablets, coming from the dentist : “That didn’t hurt a bit!” in the early 1900’s (also on the Antikamnia calender of 1908).
I could not find when his slogan “What? Me worry?” came in, but it is definitely -at least the “me worry?” part- from the 30’s or earlier. It is thought to be derived from Yiddish expression “Ishe Ga Bibble” or “Ish Kabibble”, meaning exactly that.

The more I see of Trevor Noah , the more I think he’s brilliant.

My comparative was just the face, not religion or anything else. I believe the guy was fictional anyway.

Mr Sessions as a jew? somehow I inexplicably feel some doubt there.
One of the models of Alfred E. Neumann was a Nazi anti-jewish propaganda poster, according to Carl Djerassi (the father of the ‘pill’), who said he saw him in 1939 in Vienna with the subscript ‘Tod den Juden’ (Death to the Jews). Note, his image predates the Nazis, so maybe not, after all.

Alfred E. Neuman I could not think of the name.

I’ve got a cartoon of that somewhere amongst the thousands!