http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/27/exclusive-obrien-civic-illiteracy-among-americas-political-elite/
President Trump announced that he would be implementing a temporary pause on certain types of immigration to help the United States recover from COVID-19. And it only took about 14 hours for his detractors to accuse him of exceeding his authority and violating the separation of powers.
New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James threatened to sue, in order to protect Congress' power to "write immigration policy." And Jerrold Nadler and Zoe Lofgren claimed, "Under our Constitution, Congress writes the laws, and the president must enforce them as written. This executive order turns that bedrock principle of separation of powers on its head."
The problem here is that AG James, and both Representatives Nadler and Lofgren, appear to have less working knowledge of the Constitution they are sworn to uphold than the average seventh grader in a French middle school. And it turns out that President Trump is, in fact, faithfully enforcing the law, as written by Congress.
As all three of the aforementioned civic illiterates should be well aware, 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1182(f) grants the President of the United States broad power to, "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." This power may be exercised, "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." And the president is specifically permitted to take such action, "by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary."
Only two years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) addressed the powers granted to the president to manage immigration when America's interests are at stake during a time of crisis. In Trump v. Hawaii, the SCOTUS ruled firmly in favor of the Trump administration. And the court noted that, "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."
In plain English, that means the following: Congress specifically granted the president authority to impose additional restrictions on immigration - above and beyond those already found in the Immigration and Nationality Act - in times of crisis, when the president deems U.S. interests to be at stake. And, quite frankly, it's hard to envision a more explicit authorization for a temporary immigration pause during a global pandemic. ...
8 U.S.C. Sec. 1182(f) was exactly the law I was educating Cactus Flower on when he decided to ban me from ALEA. Poor Cactus Flower realized he was illiterate and ignorant ... and woefully losing the argument ... so, he responded like a classic libtard and immediately withdrew from the truth - by removing me from his presence. Oh well.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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