What Should Happen at The Border?

MPR Two Minnesota attorneys' trip to the border captures 18-hour standoff with officials

A FB friend posted the above link.

"This is a big part of the problem. USCIS regulations state that asylum seekers can request asylum when they reach US soil or a port of entry. If we don’t want them to come here first, then seek asylum, we should change the law, not break it."

And the following quote.

“Pottratz Acosta said she finds it frustrating that, on the one hand, the Department of Homeland Security says people should apply for asylum the right way, at a port of entry, instead of crossing illegally. But on the other hand, it prevents certain people from doing so."

So I linked to the Asylum page and the Asylum Process page. And posted this quote from the Asylum page.

"Every year people come to the United States seeking protection because they have suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution due to: Race, Religion, Nationality, Membership in a particular social group, Political opinion, If you are eligible for asylum you may be permitted to remain in the United States."

Here are my thoughts and questions:

• What do Liberals think should happen at the border?
• Is their idea that a person or group would show up, be finger printed, fill out some paperwork and be allowed to cross into the USA immediately? How long of a wait is acceptable?
• At which time they would be free to go where they want and do what they want in the USA until their court hearing?
• Are their any limits to how many they think should be processed each day?
• Why is it deemed "unacceptable" for these people to stay in Mexico while their asylum application is being reviewed?
• Do they deem Mexico to be an unsafe place for asylum seekers?  Is the USA that much better?
• Should we set up even more "safe holding" capacity at the US / Mexico border , so the asylum seekers can be safe and contained during the process?  In essence refugee camps?

And ultimately I wonder:

• How many of the billions of people in the world who live in more disruptive unfair and unsafe communities than ours do you want to accept into ours each year?
• Do you want them to go to our consulates, apply and await permission?
• Or do you want them to sell everything, pack up their kids, start walking through crime invested areas just be told their issues are not bad enough when they arrive?