{"id":21322,"date":"2019-04-03T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21322"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:27:19","slug":"can-the-president-shut-down-the-border-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/03\/can-the-president-shut-down-the-border-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the President Shut Down the Border?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In response to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2019\/03\/28\/ice-chief-we-cannot-secure-the-border-in-a-meaningful-way-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">endless stream<\/a> of Central American migrants currently attempting to access the U.S. by any means, lawful or otherwise, President Trump has threatened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/news\/2019\/04\/the-d-brief-april-01-2019\/155955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">shut down the border<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Predictably, the armchair jurists in the media have opined that the president doesn\u2019t have the authority to close the border and will be sued if he tries. The<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/12\/28\/trump-threatens-shut-down-border-entirely-heres-why-he-cant-do-that\/?utm_term=.49d591ef6ad6\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> proclaimed, \u201cThe only way Trump could potentially shut down the border would be through trade.\u201d (Although, the legal sages at the Post didn\u2019t go into any detail about how that would actually work, since the object of any border shutdown would be keeping out the people currently trying to get in.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what\u2019s the real deal? Can the\npresident shut down the border? He can. And the Supreme Court has repeatedly\nsaid so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>8 U.S.C. \u00a7 1182(f), unequivocally grants the\npresident the authority to \u201csuspend the entry of all aliens or any class of\naliens\u201d whenever he finds that their entry would be \u201cdetrimental to the\ninterests of the United States.\u201d &nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/509\/155\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc<\/a><\/em>., decided in 1993, the Supreme Court held that, 1182(f) was intended to give the president the authority to prevent unauthorized mass migrations. Therefore, it delegates \u201cample power\u201d to impose entry restrictions on foreign nationals, in response to emergent situations that threaten America\u2019s interests. In fact, the Court found that 1182(f) was a more than sufficient basis for the naval blockade which ended the mass migration from Haiti during the Clinton administration. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>More recently, in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/585\/17-965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Trump v. Hawaii<\/a><\/em>, the high Court reaffirmed <em>Sale<\/em> holding that, \u201cFairly read, [1182(f)] vests authority in the President to impose additional limitations on entry beyond the grounds for exclusion set forth in the [Immigration and Nationality Act] \u2014 including in response to circumstances that might affect the vetting system or other \u2018interests of the United States.\u2019\u201d The court also noted that, \u201cBy its terms, \u00a71182(f) exudes deference to the President in every clause.\u201d <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the Supreme Court\u2019s holdings in <em>Sale<\/em> and <em>Trump v. Hawaii<\/em>, 1182(f),  it would appear to grant the president more than ample authority to close ports of entry because they are being overrun by people seeking to enter the U.S. by any means, lawful or illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2019\/04\/01\/cnn-making-folk-heroes-out-of-villains-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">mainstream media<\/a> has repeatedly presented its <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2019\/03\/26\/when-the-truth-about-border-security-doesnt-make-the-cut-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">inaccurate<\/a> opinions on this issue as a factual statement of the applicable law is completely unconscionable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the endless stream of Central American migrants currently attempting to access the U.S. by any means, lawful or otherwise, President Trump has threatened to shut down the border. Predictably, the armchair jurists in the media have opined that the president doesn\u2019t have the authority to close the border and will be sued<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/03\/can-the-president-shut-down-the-border-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":17817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[140,1524,5127,1519],"yst_prominent_words":[5120,3011,5126,2043,2249,3557,4726,5117,5116,1942,5118,5121,5123,5122,5125,3366,2242,1946,5119,1933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21323,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322\/revisions\/21323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21322"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}