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SunSeeker

(51,368 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:03 AM Mar 2020

Officials: Trump mulls using pandemic powers to send all who cross border illegally to Mexico

Source: Associated Press

The Trump administration is considering a plan to turn back all people who cross the border illegally from Mexico, two administration officials said Tuesday, using powers they say the president has during pandemics like the coronavirus outbreak to mount what would be one of the most aggressive attempts to curtail illegal immigration.

The plan is under consideration and no final decisions have been made, according to the officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the plan hasn’t been announced.

The officials said the president has authority to take such action in a pandemic and that Mexico’s efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus, along with Venezuela’s, have been the weakest in North and South America.

The administration had declared in November 2018 that anyone who crossed the border illegally from Mexico would be denied asylum, a measure has been blocked in court. Last month, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco upheld a lower court decision to keep that asylum ban on hold while a lawsuit proceeds.



Read more: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/officials-trump-mulls-using-pandemic-powers-to-send-all-who-cross-border-illegally-to-mexico/



As if the economy is not screwed enough, there goes agriculture and food service! Crops are already rotting in the fields due to labor shortages. Good luck finding produce at your local store!

Trump can't figure out how to use his emergency powers to help Americans deal with Covid-19, but he sure knows how to use them to torture immigrants.

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Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
1. So, even as something like this is happening,
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 02:50 AM
Mar 2020

racism is still one of the Trump admin's highest priorities. Typical of them.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
5. By 1943 and 1944 when it was obvious that the Nazis were going to get crushed Hitler ...
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 05:09 AM
Mar 2020

... still made having the trains running to get the Jews to the concentration camps
as a top priority.

DBoon

(22,286 posts)
8. He calls it the "Chinese Virus" for a reason
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 10:50 AM
Mar 2020

to incite violence against anyone who is asian looking

kimbutgar

(20,876 posts)
10. My husband told me weeks ago MF45 would start to " other" Asians and discrimination against
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:22 PM
Mar 2020

Them would ramp up. I thought he was stretching it but now slowly we’re seeing it. I wonder how these old white men married to Asian women who watch fox are going treat to their wives now?

3. Trump and his minions in the Repug Party will use the pandemic as an excuse
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 03:00 AM
Mar 2020

to shove though every evil plan they have to further destroy this country and hurt the most vulnerable.

For example, eliminating the payroll tax "temporarily" will be followed by a push to get rid of it permanently. Since the payroll tax is the main source of funds for Social Security and Medicare, reducing or eliminating that tax gives the Repugs another shot at disemboweling those programs.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
12. He's taking what he was doing previously,
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 06:16 PM
Mar 2020

and turning it up to 11. And he’s using the virus as justification.

0rganism

(23,855 posts)
11. "pandemic powers" -- is that going to be our new "9/11 changed everything"?
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:56 PM
Mar 2020

what if Mexico decided to send all non-Mexicans who cross the Mexico-US border illegally into the US back to the US if deported to Mexico?

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