[your other brother]

Discretionary means whatever a federal district judge takes it to mean and it won’t be hard to find one who thinks it means Trump is the anti-Christ and nothing he wants or does is legal and voila a nationwide injunction forbidding any change and it will take 3 years to get to the Supreme Court and be overruled.

[goldstategop]

Yup. In the meantime the Caravaners will get their asylum claims adjudicated.

That will take years.

[Windflier]

Discretionary means whatever a federal district judge takes it to mean and it won’t be hard to find one who thinks it means Trump is the anti-Christ and nothing he wants or does is legal and voila a nationwide injunction forbidding any change and it will take 3 years to get to the Supreme Court and be overruled.

That ship has sailed...

The President has it within his statutory and constitutional authority to suspend all grants of asylum, should he choose to do so. This was reaffirmed by the SCOTUS in June of this year, in the case, Trump v. Hawaii, No. 17-965 in the Supreme Court of the United States.

“8USC 1182(f) and 1185(a) 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, whose entry to suspend, for how long, and on what conditions. It thus vests the President with “ample power” to impose entry restrictions in addition to those elsewhere enumerated in the INA.”