FYI. Despite the disinformation and spinning out there, here's why the President is within his constitutional authority to prohibit illegal entrants from applying for asylum. Here are the sections of the Immigration & Nationality Act which specifically grant him such authority:
1. Section 215(a): “Unless otherwise ordered by the President, it shall be unlawful for any alien to depart from or enter or attempt to depart from or enter the United States except under such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions AS THE PRESIDENT MAY PRESCRIBE.”
2. Section 212(f): “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 APPROPRIATE.”
In view the Central American migrants' violation of international protocols requiring that they accept any first offers of asylum, e.g. Mexico, Trump’s order to permit these migrants to apply for asylum at US ports-of-entry only is, to say the very least, extremely generous. The order also prohibits any gate-crasher who circumvents this policy from applying for asylum; they will be expeditiously deported to their homelands without a hearing. He is also ending the infuriating practice of "catch & release", a remedial action long time in coming. So, under both US law and in accordance with international agreements, alien entries into the US can be restricted or altogether prohibited. That's all you need to know to successfully parry with your disinformational and faux compassionate friends on the Left who cynically view illegals in any form as electoral fodder and nothing more.
