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President Trump can shut the border down using “8 U.S.C. 1182(f), giving the president authority to shut off immigration for any period of time, at will, when he believes it’s in the national interests.”
The problem is Trump’s Staff won’t tell him this.
conservativereview.com/news/illegal-i…
The problem is Trump’s Staff won’t tell him this.
conservativereview.com/news/illegal-i…
SCOTUS agrees: “The Act also vests the President with authority to restrict the entry of aliens when- ever he finds that their entry ‘would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.’” -Justice Roberts in Majority Opinion in Trump v. Hawaii (Travel Ban Case)
8 U.S.C. 1182(f): “Whenever @POTUS finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the U.S., he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens”
The more you read our immigration laws and Supreme Court Cases, the more you realize there is a sh*t load of power the President has in controlling the border.
“The Supreme Court just made clear last year that there are no limitations on this power, and the court cited the Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. (1993) case, which concluded that this power superseded even asylum law.” conservativereview.com/news/illegal-i…
Trump must be having this line of “our immigration laws are terrible” fed to him by the Never Trumpers in the White House to convince him he doesn’t have this power.
The President has extraordinary power on immigration.
He needs someone like Kobach to guide him on this.
The President has extraordinary power on immigration.
He needs someone like Kobach to guide him on this.
Justice Roberts in Majority Opinion in Trump v. Hawaii (Travel Ban Case): “By its plain language, §1182(f ) grants the President broad discretion to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States.”
Justice Roberts continued: “By its terms, §1182(f ) exudes deference to the President in EVERY clause. It entrusts to the President the decisions whether and when to suspend entry (“[w]henever [he] finds that the entry” of aliens “would be detrimental” to the national interest);”
