kalm wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:44 am
Yes, a POTUS can’t close the border, but he can do things like try limit catch and release, and reinstate ‘Remain In Mexico’ for so called asylum seekers.
Remember in 2019 Trump tried to end catch and release for OTM family units caught at the border? Due to the Flores Consent Decree
https://www.justsecurity.org/61144/flor ... hdraws-it/
The govt can’t detain illegal minors longer than 3 weeks. Since they can’t process the illegal parents that quick, the children were getting separated from the parents. Makes sense- you don’t let people take their kids to jail with them. The left (amd some Rinicans) lost their collective shit. So it was back to catch and release for the OTM families with minors.
The Remain in Mexico as I understand it was the Trump admin saying you have to claim asylum at a POE. POEs were only processing a limited number per day, so the rest of them would have to ‘Remain In Mexico’ for long periods waiting. Also got a 1st Country agreement with Mexico:
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/requi ... -crisis-2/