Where would we be as a country if this ruling had been made just six years ago? The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of a policy known as “metering,” in use during President Trump’s first term as well as Barack Obama’s administration, which capped the number of people who could apply for asylum each day.
Immigration advocates had argued the policy violated federal law, which states that migrants can apply for asylum after they “arrive” in the US, and claimed that aliens should be considered to have done so once they reached the border.
“In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place - for example, a house, a city, or a country - before the person enters that place,” Republican-appointed Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.
God - that makes so much sense, doesn't it? What they're saying, in essence, is that just because you got your foot in the door, that doesn't mean you belong in the living room, on the couch, watching soccer and eating fuckin' Doritos that someone you don't know paid for. Or something like that...
I'll bet anything I can name, without looking, who the three on the SCOTUS who voted against it. The three token hire morons. Sotomeyer, Kagan, and Jackass er Jackson. No brainer.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it the responsibility of the United States to give refugee status to just about everyone? I can understand it for countries in which the United States has meddled politically or militarily, and people who supported us need to be saved from our bungling, but HAITI? Dear God, why?
ReplyDeleteCongress needs to pass a law to that effect else the next Dumb President can reverse this. Of course with out RINO overlords running Congress, this will never happen.
ReplyDeleteI wish we had landmines at the border and floating mines in the Rio Grande.
ReplyDeleteDeport them all and keep them out.