Ben Shapiro

They would claim they couldn't go back to their home country because of a specific threat.

Now, that is a different thing from temporary protected status, as we'll get to.

Asylum requires you to show a specific threat to you.

You can't just say, I want to come here because my home country sucks.

That's a different thing.

OK, so in order for that to be adjudicated, you would come, you'd wait in line for inspection.

at a port of entry.

And once you're on American soil, then we had a duty to actually listen to your asylum claim.

Toward the end of the Obama administration, there were so many people arriving at the border trying to get in while Obama was still in office that the government approved something called a metering policy under which border agents would basically stand at the border and say, don't come in.

You don't have travel documents.

You don't have a visa.

The port of entry is full.

Come back later.

You stay there.

Why did they do that?

Well, because again, the law says you only have to process people who are in the country.

That is the direct language in America.

So if you don't come in, we have no legal duty to process you.

The first Trump administration expanded and formalized the metering policy.

And then the Biden administration rescinded it.