From a legal standpoint that is irrelevant. Until their asylum case is adjudicated, they are here legally.

all immigration is legal if you claim to be an asylum seeker. It’s not intended to be a deportation-delayer for economic migrants.

Cool. How do you decide who is an economic migrant?

If they traveled through another country (Mexico) which could grant asylum, but chose not to stay there.

If it were that easy, why aren’t they doing that?

I can't speak for these people but I do know why this happens in Sweden (where I live): because the Swedish state provides lavish benefits, a lot more than neighbouring countries. This fact is taken by human smugglers, blown out of all proportions where they promise migrants that they'll get a house and a car and a girlfriend (not a joke) if only they pay them €€€€ to be dumped into a leaky boat across the Mediterranean.

Because they arent seeking asylum!

They want jobs.

Sorry, I wasn't precise enough with my language. I was saying if it is that easy to determine who has a legitimate asylum claim, then why don't the courts do so?

When they actually show up to court, they're usually not granted asylum. But we have teens of millions of people living here illegally, it's not hard to avoid the authorities.

For some reason we keep talking past one another. I’m talking about why CBP doesn’t just turn away asylum seekers that transit via Mexico if it is so easy to determine in advance that their asylum claims are not legitimate.

For some reason you keep railing against illegal immigrants instead of actually engaging in productive discussion.

CBP is not authorized to do so. Asylum must go before a judge.

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. Many migrants don’t even show up to their asylum hearings.. they just use it as a deportation delayer. You’d think 100% of migrants would show up if they were serious but its only like 80%.

Then change the law, you can't have it both ways. Also - if they weren't here legally before the stunt then the governor of Florida literally smuggled people into the country, which he cannot do as immigration is the federal government's purview. The thing is, there is a decent point that border states bare the brunt of illegal immigration issues but to draw attention to it at the expense of poor humans is just despicable.