Question - Can the Con unilaterally change the laws governing asylum?

[malaise]

According the breaking news, he just declared an edict on the subject.

[Bettie]

1. Probably

looks like he's going to get his citizenship thing in the census, regardless of what the SCOTUS says, he gets to say who is an isn't allowed to testify to congress...and a whole, giant, exhausting pile of other stuff, so yeah, he can do whatever he wants to.

No one has the will to stop him.

[hlthe2b]

4. He is NOT getting his citizenship question in the census.

Where have you been the past week?

[Bettie]

5. Last I heard they are printing an

insert, regardless of what the courts say.

[hlthe2b]

6. You heard wrong.

There is an orchestrated attempt to mislead and manipulate us to keep us spinning in circles, but he remains legally enjoined from any such attempts. Just because he throws it out in a tweet doesn't mean he is doing it.

He will get data from other sources--something Dept. of Commerce career employees already offered as an option--as from Homeland security and tax databases, but no question on the census.

[RKP5637]

12. K&R n/t

[AlexSFCA]

2. finally the words of wisdom

he can freely disobey SC orders as sitting president “cannot be indicted”.

[Lindsay]

3. There will be court challenges.

So far those have had mixed success in stopping him.

[lapislzi]

7. You are not getting this.

It doesn't matter what the "laws" are. He doesn't care, and nobody is going to stop him. Not Congress, not the SCOTUS. He is completely lawless. He will do as he pleases.

[malaise]

8. SCOTUS just stopped him on the Census n/t

[lapislzi]

10. And he has not given up on that.

He and his pet AG are scrambling to find a way around it.

One small setback. Don't count on too many more. If your faith is in John Roberts, it's misplaced. He is no friend.

[grantcart]

9. Yes and No

There are a number of things that he will try to do and the courts will overturn many of them, like the Muslim ban.

He can then get a work around like adding North Korea to the Muslim ban so it wasn't based on religion.

Even if the courts over ruled all of his Executive Orders he can decimate the process by just reassigning staff so that there isn't anyone to take the applications.

If he wanted to stop all visas from a certain country all he has to do is move all of the counsellor officers in that country to other duties and have one person do it one afternoon a week.

The announced rule that would allow asylum seekers to petition closer to their homes is not a bad idea in itself but the real problem is what is going to be done with the applications once they are submitted. The fact is that he can sabotage it a million different ways from an administrative point of view.

[grantcart]

11. Here are some stats which shows what an administration can do to reduce asylum numbers legally

2009 35,811 asylum applications 8,384 approved

2018 162,000 applications made and only 13,000 approved

There are currently over 800,000 asylum applications in the system with about 100,000 trying to add to it every month.

The real answer is taking dramatic steps to help solve problems in the countries of origins.

Working on Sinema's campaign I met a field organizer who was taking a break from her Ph'd on Human Rights. I told her I had worked in the UN system on refugees and asked her what should be done with all of the refugees who are going to sleep in refugee camps tonight.

She answered "we should resettle them all as soon as possible".

Her face went into shock when I told her that tonight more than 25 million people were currently living in a refugee camp.

The fact is that the Obama administration had developed some low cost programs that were having a positive impact in critical areas and Trump eliminated all of these programs in order to "penalize" the countries who were already having basic governance problems.

The first and best answer is always to try and fix the problems that are causing people to flee. Without addressing that problem the people will keep coming and coming. Usually those solutions are not that expensive when compared with resettling a million people.

[pecosbob]

16. And climate change forced displacement will make things much, much worse in the future

Makes me wonder how many billions of people live in coastal southeast and central Asia.

[MineralMan]

13. He can't actually change the laws,

but he can change how they are enforced. He already has.

[treestar]

14. No, someone will appeal to the courts

Though it would be tougher when they are detained.

[Bettie]

15. Based on the last news break on XM

yes, apparently, he can.

[Rene]

17. drumpf is too stupid to think of this himself.....Smells of Miller