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MalabarJag · 07-05-2018, 11:17 PM

(07-05-2018, 11:04 PM)mikesez Wrote: Good stuff in the link but it's not a recent SCOTUS case. SCOTUS has always given the President and Congress very broad authority to let people in or exclude them even if it doesn't seem fair. And where Congress has been vague, SCOTUS generally yields to the President's interpretation.

But remember this cuts both ways. A lot of the stuff Obama did may not have been wise but was also within his authority.

But the fact that these were not recent just makes the case stronger. These were not just some rulings by a currently rightward leaning SCOTUS, these were constitutional decisions by various compositions of the SCOTUS over time.

And these decisions were not about presidential authority; they were about the rights of foreigners who entered the country illegally. Logically, there's not a lot of difference between someone who is blocked at the border and prevented from crossing vs. someone who was caught after succeeding in sneaking across the border.

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