All CNMI-situated PRC/Russian nationals may at present, and over the ensuing 180 days, seek/apply for U.S. asylum/refugee protection with attendant release pending final disposition into the U.S. mainland general population (as such release has been afforded those previously seeking these asylum protections on Guam).
I’m considering publishing CNMI/international advertisements, notifying all persons who are in, or will enter, the CNMI, during the next six months from PRC/Russia as to their entitlement to seek asylum/refugee status under U.S. law/procedures once they’ve arrive in the CNMI.
If successful, these applicants may roam freely the U.S. mainland until final disposition by U.S. authorities…and, regardless during the interim…allowing such applicants to remain indefinitely in the CNMI/U.S. pursuant to the doctrine of non-refoulement (meaning these PRC/Russian folks can’t be sent home from the CNMI to PRC/Russia until full/final disposition of asylum/refugee claims…thereby seriously jeopardizing U.S. security interests).
As U.S. officials must well know, the U.S. in federal court long argued that U.S. asylum/refugee protections should not be afforded to CNMI situated persons from PRC/Russia because the CNMI controlled its own immigration — and, though having been apprised by the U.S. court that such a position was hardly tenable circa 1999-2003…well, this U.S. position would now appear to preclude the U.S. from not now being wholly responsible for asylum/refugee protections, given the U.S. takeover of CNMI immigration…oops…
So now, instead of having pregnant mothers fly into the CNMI at eight months pregnant in order to deliver birth to U.S. citizen children…the CNMI might have a new business enterprise…at least for any 180-day extension…the exodus of asylum/refugee candidates from PRC/Russia to the CNMI for processing by U.S. officials…courtesy of CNMI federalization-delay-tactics
BRUCE L. JORGENSEN
Washington, D.C.
