Conservative Review: Trump already has the power to
stop anyone at our border, by Ann Corcoran, 10/18/18.
Daniel
Horowitz at Conservative Review lays it out for us. President
Trump already has all the power he needs to close our borders.
Presumably
inspired by all the news about a now 4,000-strong migrant caravan heading
toward Mexico with the apparent aim to assault our southern border (see
my post yesterday),
Horowitz says this (emphasis is mine):
President Trump has full constitutional power to stop the
border invasion – even without Congress Just as President Reagan is remembered for ending the Cold War,
President Trump can be remembered as the one who ended the war on our
sovereignty. Will he rise to the occasion?
The wall will be meaningless if we
continue to allow fake asylum seekers in through the gates!
Here’s
the stone-cold truth about our border: We could construct a border wall as high
as the stratosphere, and it won’t help much if we continue our self-destructing
policies of allowing bogus asylees to come through our front door and
legitimizing the opinions of sanctuary judges who “make denizens of aliens.”
President
Trump publicly warned the governments of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala
that if they don’t take steps to stop the latest caravan of bogus asylum
invaders, he will cut off aid to the countries. While this is a good first
step, it won’t deter the invasion unless we stop admitting the invaders and
implementing catch-and-release under orders from illegitimate court rulings, as
we did with the previous caravan and countless tens of thousands of others coming
in with less pomp. And that would hold true even with a border wall. They just come to our points of entry,
surrender themselves, get released into our communities, and never show up to
their hearings until and unless they wind up committing crimes.
Moreover,
the caravan is already in Guatemala and headed for Mexico. Thus, the Honduran
diplomacy is moot at this point. And this is much bigger than one caravan. We
must first dissect what is actually happening at our border.
This is nothing short of an invasion
Earlier
this week, KTAR news in Phoenix, Arizona, sat down with ICE’s Phoenix field
director, Henry Lucero. What he revealed should disturb all of us: See
the revelations here.
Then
this…..Thus, it all boils down
to bogus asylum and catch-and-release. Either Trump ends those, or everything else is just talk.
While Trump is right to ask Congress to step in, we’ve noted before that our
statute is already clear that these
people do not qualify as asylees and that the unaccompanied teenagers do not
qualify as refugees.
With
this background in mind, it’s easy to understand why Lindsey Grahmanesty’s idea
of trading amnesty for a border wall is so counterintuitive. We only have this
border invasion because of the magnet of amnesty, and the magnet of amnesty
allows them to come to the entry points, demand asylum, sue for rights, and
never get deported. A wall
only helps a country that has a strong spirit but a weak frontier; it doesn’t
help a weak political system that willingly commits national suicide.
Anyone who tells you that the president doesn’t have the authority to
exclude anyone for any reason doesn’t deserve to live in a sovereign nation.
Sovereignty trumps everything. There is nothing in our statutes that forces the president
to admit anyone he feels is a problem. In fact, as we’ve noted before, he has
inherent executive powers from Article II, as well as delegated authority from
Congress under existing law, to stop taking in immigrants at the border or
through visas for as much time as he deems necessary.
There
is much more here as
Horowitz lays out the case.
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