re: The Immigration Crisis.

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The influx of families from Central America seeking asylum is relatively new over the last 10 years.

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Asylum has three basic requirements:

1. An asylum applicant must establish that he or she fears persecution in their home country;

2. Theapplicant must prove that he or she would be persecuted on account of one of five protected grounds: race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or particular social group; and,

3. An applicant must establish that the government is either involved in the persecution, or unable to control the conduct of private actors.

The illegal aliens from Central America are not qualifying for asylum. Many are claiming that they're victims of gang violence but that does not apply. We have gang violence in the U.S. Nearly every country has that problem.

Central American countries have the familiar problem of having too many people and not enough resources to support them. Instead of encouraging birth control, they see the out-migration of their poorest to any nation that will take them. It's a problem that will become steadily worse as the population of poor people continues to grow unchecked.