There is a difference between shutting down the border for commerce and suspending all immigration at our border.
The bad news is that they are obfuscating the distinction between shutting off the entire border for commerce and suspending immigration requests at the border.
If members of Congress were to get together and craft a new law with the intent of giving the president more power to shut down what is happening today, they could not conceivably have written anything strong than this existing law, which has been in place, in some form, since 1893, particularly to keep out those with diseases.
As Justice Clarence Thomas said in Trump v. Hawaii, "Section 1182(f) does not set forth any judicially enforceable limits that constrain the President. Nor could it, since the President has inherent authority to exclude aliens from the country."
While there is some utility to the president threatening to shut off commerce for a day or two to leverage both the Mexican government and Congress into action, it would be better policy and savvier politics to simply suspend all immigration requests at the border while leaving open non-immigrant travel with proper documentation.
Any commonsense balancing of equities both for the American people and for legitimate asylees would be to proclaim a temporary suspension of all immigration requests at land borders and route them to embassies.
You know what else? We can keep the ports open to commerce, have our secure borders, and eat our avocados too.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/we-can-keep-the-ports-open-to-commerce-secure-our-borders-and-eat-our-avocados-too/
The bad news is that they are obfuscating the distinction between shutting off the entire border for commerce and suspending immigration requests at the border.
If members of Congress were to get together and craft a new law with the intent of giving the president more power to shut down what is happening today, they could not conceivably have written anything strong than this existing law, which has been in place, in some form, since 1893, particularly to keep out those with diseases.
As Justice Clarence Thomas said in Trump v. Hawaii, "Section 1182(f) does not set forth any judicially enforceable limits that constrain the President. Nor could it, since the President has inherent authority to exclude aliens from the country."
While there is some utility to the president threatening to shut off commerce for a day or two to leverage both the Mexican government and Congress into action, it would be better policy and savvier politics to simply suspend all immigration requests at the border while leaving open non-immigrant travel with proper documentation.
Any commonsense balancing of equities both for the American people and for legitimate asylees would be to proclaim a temporary suspension of all immigration requests at land borders and route them to embassies.
You know what else? We can keep the ports open to commerce, have our secure borders, and eat our avocados too.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/we-can-keep-the-ports-open-to-commerce-secure-our-borders-and-eat-our-avocados-too/
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