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Trump Can Close the Border, Former Federal Prosecutor Says
The New American ^ | October 25, 2018 | R. Cort Kirkwood

Posted on 10/25/2018 8:46:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

As the “migrant caravan” surges through Mexico toward the U.S. border, U.S. officials are debating how to handle the mass of people once they arrive and demand entry into the Promised Land.

Tensions are high inside the Trump White House, The New American reported yesterday, with the president’s aides and officials arguing about the president’s options.

But a former federal prosecutor says debate is unnecessary. Trump can close the border.

The Law, the Court Case, and the Criminal Flood

Writing first at the Daily Caller and then speaking on Breitbart Radio, Sidney Powell, former Assistant United States Attorney and Appellate Section Chief in the Western and Northern Districts of Texas, says no one can stop the president from closing the borders to protect the country from dangerous aliens. In this case, the danger is 14,000 people who will immediately become a burden on public schools, the healthcare system, and police and criminal courts.

Title 8, Chapter 12 of the U.S. Code, which governs “inadmissible aliens,” Powell wrote, gives Trump the right to shut down the border.

Whenever the President 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 United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the president’s authority in the case Hawaii brought against him because of the wrongly named “Muslim ban.”

That statute, the court opined, “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 [Immigration and Nationality Act].... The sole prerequisite set forth ... is that the President “find” that the entry of the covered aliens “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

“Why not just let them all in?” Powell asked. “We’re a big country with some of the most generous people in the history of the world. We wish everyone could enjoy our freedoms and prosperity.”

Because the president has the right and duty to block the mass entry of criminals:

As sympathetic as many in the "caravan" might be, embedded with them are untold numbers of MS-13 gang members, drug dealers, rapists, pedophiles, murderers, and terrorists. Indeed, Guatemala, from which the caravan has come, just arrested 100 members of ISIS.

Friday night, the “caravan” proved to be a violent mob. Video footage shows them breaking through the fence at the southern border of Mexico, injuring Mexican officers and entering Mexico illegally. Categorically, they are criminals.

But that’s not all, Powell wrote. Trump has “countless reasons” aside from the outright criminality of the aliens to close the border. A strange virus causing polio-like symptoms is hitting children, our national deficit is growing, and we face two major drug-abuse epidemics.

Not to mention homeless veterans, homeless battered women and their children, and on top of that, the immigrants who “have not assimilated well. Downtown Detroit has signs in English and Arabic. Many from all countries have never learned English. Americans have died at the hands of illegals — all unnecessarily.”

Americans can’t afford any more immigrants, she wrote. “Millions of people around the world yearn to live in America, but we cannot provide a home or job for the world’s population. We would no longer have a country. Strangers breaking into America is no different than breaking into your home and demanding that you house, feed, clothe and educate them while providing for their medical needs. Americans are overloaded and fed up.”

Congress, Courts Need Not Approve

Importantly, Trump and his advisors must remember that Congress and the courts need not approve, she told Breitbart.

They can’t stop him because they have “already given him that authority.” Congress did so in federal law, and the Supreme Court “approved it.” The president has the authority to close the borders.

Nor can lower federal courts stop it with injunctions. That idea, she said, is a “crock. No district judge has the authority to issue a national injunction.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alieninvasion; aliens; birchers; borders; caravan; closetheborder; conspiracy; criminalinvasion; fakenews; hondurascaravan; illegalsinvasion; immigration; invasion; johnbirchsociety; sidneypowell; trump
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To: for-q-clinton
I never said it confers citizenship. But it does give them the right to seek asylum. And the coyotes teach them what they need to say to get a court hearing.

You said that stepping foot on US soil makes them US persons. It does not. As you said above, they can claim asylum after illegally entering, but even that is subject to legal interpretation.

I've read here today, that aliens seeking asylum are supposed to do so at the American consulate in their own country, not at our border.

Bottom line - the President has it within his power to suspend all grants of asylum for those doing so at our border.

81 posted on 10/26/2018 4:25:15 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Ok you know more than they just briefed us by the border patrol. I was just briefed on this very topic, but I’ll defer to the Internet genius.


82 posted on 10/26/2018 6:02:09 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: for-q-clinton
Ok you know more than they just briefed us by the border patrol. I was just briefed on this very topic, but I’ll defer to the Internet genius.

What - a ruling by the Supreme Court holds less weight than a briefing by some gubmint employee at the Border Patrol?

Get a grip, friend.

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.”

All it takes is an executive order from the Prez.

83 posted on 10/26/2018 6:24:42 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

No the Supremes ruled on people from land not connected to the US. The couldn’t set for in the US.


84 posted on 10/26/2018 6:41:54 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: for-q-clinton
No the Supremes ruled on people from land not connected to the US. The couldn’t set for in the US.

Once again:

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.”

Read more here.

All it takes is an executive order from the Prez.

85 posted on 10/26/2018 7:43:15 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: LucyT
You ever notice that almost every single one of these illegals are wearing very expensive backpacks?

They say, they only make $5/day. So, how can they afford a month's pay for a backpack?


86 posted on 10/28/2018 12:37:38 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Red Steel
Trump is well within the law to close it.

Better hurry up if you plan on seeing your VA Dr soon before they close it lol


87 posted on 10/28/2018 12:48:04 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Brown Deer; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; ...
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You ever notice that almost every single one of these illegals are wearing very expensive backpacks?

They say, they only make $5/day. So, how can they afford a month's pay for a backpack?

Thanks, Brown Deer.

88 posted on 10/28/2018 9:59:25 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Brown Deer; LucyT

http://www.viveusa.mx/articulo/2017/07/31/educacion/abren-cruce-peatonal-de-tijuana-estados-unidos

That’s a new Tijuana border crossing in the El Chaparral area.

Sign says “Cruce Peatonal Oeste El Chaparral”

https://www.uniradioinforma.com/noticias/tijuana/488947/cruce-peatonal-el-chaparral-dara-celeridad-a-paso-migratorio-delegado.html


89 posted on 10/28/2018 10:27:40 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: LucyT; Brown Deer

Also at the bottom of that article I linked is this report:

https://www.uniradioinforma.com/noticias/tijuana/544940/sector-salud-alarmado-por-llegada-de-migrantes-traerian-colera.html

The Tijuana health department is raising the alarm over the Central Americans bringing cholera in with them.


90 posted on 10/28/2018 10:32:06 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Brown Deer

Not just nice backpacks but nice iphones. I’m still using an old flip phone and still haven’t received that free obama phone.

Notice they’ve stopped whining about no diapers. If the babies didn’t have diapers, their parents shirts and pants would be covered with poo and pee. Instead, everyone is wearing clean clothes. Same with those little kids parents are carrying on their shoulders. Those kids should have dirty shoes that kick their parents’ chests but the parents have crisp white t-shirts.

At least the msm is sometimes admitting and showing them catching rides. It wasn’t until just yesterday the guy on FOX said the people have blisters on their feet. Over the past days, when shown bedding down without their shoes on, they have clean feet with no blisters. So many lies.


91 posted on 10/29/2018 3:54:08 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Brown Deer

They say, they only make $5/day. So, how can they afford a month’s pay for a backpack?


I noticed that....and their brand new Adidas and Nike shoes, expensive strollers, cell phones, etc., in the very first pics that were posted, of these invading mobs, here.

Tell me this isn’t being funded by leftist operatives.


92 posted on 10/29/2018 5:29:28 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bgill

Remember (in some of the first pics of these invaders) the ‘tired’ guy rubbing lotion on his feet?

First, as you said, no blisters on those clean feet AND what dirt poor person happens to carry lotion with them, in their brand new Adidas backpack?

So fake, even a caveman can figure it out....yet, FauxNews thinks we cannot.


93 posted on 10/29/2018 5:32:22 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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