For what it’s worth, my “friends” on FB are saying there is a Refugee Act of 1980 that allow the president power to do this. I didn’t read much further so don’t have details.
I believe you are correct
The annual admission of refugees is set to a 50,000 cap per fiscal year unless in an emergency situation, during which the president may change this number for a period of twelve months. The Attorney General is also granted power to admit additional refugees and grant asylum to current aliens, but all admissions must be reported to congress and are limited to 5,000 people.[6]
That’s a specific act for a specific group of people.
However, as Rush Limbaugh clearly stated today, the Congress has the duty of setting immigration policy .. NOT THE PRESIDENT.
Go to Rush’s website and read it for yourself.
Your “friends” on FB are constitutionally illiterate.
Oh jeez...1980 was when the despicable Jimmah Carter let in hordes of Marielitos from Cuba as a gleeful Fidel Castro emptied his prisons of all his hardened criminals.
That Refugee Act would have been passed by a DemoRat Congress.
Could get interesting. Lock & load, all you “infidels”.
Correct, the Congress has delegated all sorts of immigration related powers to the President.
We can argue theory on whether doing so is Constitutional or not, but functionally there’s mountains of case law precedent supporting Congresses ability to delegate powers to the President. IOW it’s a fait accompli. Again from a practical not theoretical perspective.