The Coffman Chronicle

The Coffman Chronicle

How One Asylum Rule Turns a Backlog into a Weapon

Trump’s new work-permit crackdown quietly starves out asylum seekers instead of putting them on a plane.

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General Azmundus
Feb 23, 2026
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You Followed The Rules. The Rules Changed Anyway.

You did what they told you to do. Then they moved the goalposts.

By the time the notice shows up in the mailbox, they’ve already done everything this country said it wanted.

They turned themselves in at the border instead of slipping past it. They sat through fingerprinting and interviews. They hired a lawy…

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