Under U.S. law, if people get across the border into the U.S., they are entitled to apply for asylum, and then stick around in the U.S. for a long time while they wait to get a court date.  That's the customary way many illegal aliens game our system to get access to the U.S.  But President Trump is throwing a monkey wrench (not meant to be a racial term!) into their plans by reducing access to asylum for the mass of illegals on our southern border. A simple two-lane bridge spans the Rio Grande between Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Mexico, and Roma, Texas, sleepy sister cities that have long accommodated a steady flow of traffic back and forth across the border. Dozens of families from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Peru, some with babies only a few months old, have spent weeks living on the Mexican side of the bridge, waiting to be admitted to the United States as asylum seekers. U.S.-Mexico border near Laredo (credit: U.S. Customs and...(Read Full Post)