Trump Announces Plan to Limit Asylum-Seekers to US Ports of Entry

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Aerial view of Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the US, as the leave Arriaga on their way to San Pedro Tapanatepec, in southern Mexico on Oct. 27, 2018. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

President Donald Trump said asylum-seekers will have to “lawfully present themselves” at a U.S. port of entry, in remarks that addressed what he called a “crisis at the southern border.”

“Migrants seeking asylum will have to present themselves lawfully at a port of entry,” Trump told reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Nov. 1. “Those who choose to break our laws and enter illegally will no longer be able to use meritless claims to gain automatic admission into our country.”