A fair enough idea... but I'm a little puzzled about the nature of the "evidence" that would be lacking.
Suppose for example someone is a political dissident or on some dictator's kill list, etc.... it seems unlikely that they'll have a copy of their own death warrant to show to an ICE officer as "evidence."
Well those situations generally the sort of thing our intelligence community knows about. If there's political or personal persecution going on, we probably already know about it.
If they're on the run from a drug cartel, forget it! Those guys aren't even in the habit of leaving paper trails at all... so the asylum seeker is out of luck, aren't they?
Well, that's part of the problem I think...it's not consistent across the board. Claims of gang violence will get someone a hearing...but it sounds like very few will qualify for asylum.
So determining if that qualifies or not would be a good start...and then after that, we should require something more than a claim if it does qualify. Did they file a police report? Did the police make an attempt to investigate it? That sort of thing.
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