Sometimes you hear interesting facts when two smart lawyers are debating the issues, and the interview of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by Shannon Bream on Fox News included some fascinating law discussion.
Discussing the caravan invaders, the AG remarked:
KEN PAXTON: I don’t think Trump is going to let them in. If you look at what he is relying on, it’s the same law he relied on with the travel ban which says that he specifically has the authority to limit entry of any class of nonresident aliens that he views as detrimental to the country. In this case, that’s what he’s relying on. The Supreme Court upheld that in a recent case in June, Trump versus Hawaii, and they said basically the president could limit the scope, how long somebody came in, when they come in, whether they come in and the conditions of how they come in.
So he’s perfectly within his rights to stop them from coming into this country, including getting asylum.
Trump v. Hawaii was a win for the president and underlined his power to block immigrants from hostile nations entering the country. He took the action via Presidential Proclamation 9645, about which Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the Court’s opinion, “The Proclamation is squarely within the scope of Presidential authority.”
Below, many pictures of the Honduran caravan show the border busters carrying their home nation flag, clearly indicating invasion. This one spanning a whole road (!) is from Al Jazeera.
The caravan clearly needs to be stopped, since its success will incite many more Central Americans to escape their poor countries, particularly Honduras (population 9 million), Guatemala (population 17 million) and El Salvador (population 6 million).
Here’s the video with Ken Paxton and Shannon Bream:
