Facing coronavirus pandemic, Trump suspends immigration laws

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

and showcases vision for locked-down border

SAN ANTONIO — President Trump has used emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic to implement the kind of strict enforcement regime at the U.S. southern border he has long wanted, suspending laws that protect minors and asylum seekers so that the U.S. government can immediately deport them or turn them away.

Citing the threat of “mass, uncontrolled cross-border movement,” the president has shelved safeguards intended to protect trafficking victims and persecuted groups, implementing an expulsion order that sends migrants of all ages back to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes. U.S. Border Patrol agents do not perform medical checks when they encounter people crossing into the country.

Homeland Security officials say the measures are necessary to protect U.S. agents, health-care workers and the general public from the coronavirus. Tightening controls at the border and preventing potentially infected populations from streaming into the United States minimizes the number of detainees in U.S. immigration jails and border holding cells.

At a time when much of the nation is locked down, they say, strict border controls are an essential public health response, as each unmonitored crossing potentially exposes U.S. communities to what Trump has called an “invisible enemy.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/facing-coronavirus-pandemic-trump-suspends-immigration-laws-and-showcases-vision-for-locked-down-border/ar-BB1297Zf?li=BBnb7Kz

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Makes you wonder if rump planned this whole thing, including the killing of Americans (...

innocent bystanders, too bad they were in the way), so he could run roughshod over rights, etc.

It is funny that he moved to FL just prior to all of this crap happening.

[uponit7771]

3. +1, if this was all random stupidity Trump would do something in the favor of the US

[raging moderate]

2. WHY NOT THE NORTHERN BORDER WITH CANADA?

Mexico is way, way behind us in this pandemic. Canada has been ahead of Mexico all along.

[Demovictory9]

4. wow

[procon]

5. Is he also sending back planes loaded with passengers?

What about ships? He's already blocked cruise ships but way about the freighters and the foreign crews?

[Ms. Toad]

6. Grand total of 1688 cases.

Surprised they didn't close the border on us. Seems like we're more of a threat to us.

[MyNameGoesHere]

7. If I were an outsider looking to illegally immigrate, this shit show

Wouldn't be on my top 189, countries.

[BComplex]

8. He isn't deporting them ! He's trafficking them!

When are people going to understand who this president really is? His relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Alex Acosta WERE NOT AN INNOCENT COINCIDENCE!

Jeffrey Epstein's address book had 15 phone/contact numbers for trump. More than any other person in his address book.