On January 25, 2017 President Trump announced two executive orders on immigration, largely in line with the hardline stance he embraced during his campaign.
The first executive order is called “Protecting the Nation From Terrorist Attacks By Foreign Nationals.”
The second executive order is called “Enhancing Public Safety In The Interior of the United States.”
It stands to reason that the administration, in its zeal to deliver swiftly and visibly on campaign promises, begin with hardline anti-immigration policy outside the United States, as the President has nearly unfettered authority granted by law to control the admission of aliens into the United States. See INA 212(f). It is legal to discriminate on national origin or political and/or religious ideology when it comes to admission of aliens. For an administration that embraced nativist rhetoric that ultimately won the White House then, starting at the border is the low-hanging fruit. It’s easy to come up with any scheme desired, because courts are unlikely to step in to stop it.
Enter Trump, Kobach & Co. These executive orders on immigration reek of nativist rhetoric. They are framed by a narrative of Muslims (and especially Syrians) as terrorists, and immigrants as threats to public safety. Like its failed predecessor, NSEERS, it blacklists entire countries, and mandates a scheme that will enable countries to continue to be blacklisted by executive fiat, while placing the blame on those countries for being blacklisted. They utterly fail to recognize a single redeeming quality of any immigrant, preferring instead to look only at an “alternative fact” balance sheet of liabilities.
Turning attention towards the inside of the United States, the administration seeks to deliver on its promise to deport. They need more officers and they’ll get hired. But it’s still not enough – there are too many people. So they will crowdsource deportation to law enforcement around the country, and anyone else who dares challenge the administration’s authority. Because the number of aliens with serious criminal records is too low to satiate the administration’s nativist base, prioritization schemes have been eviscerated. Everyone is subject to deportation, and their due process rights (limited now) will likewise be eviscerated.
For each blanket ban, the government gives itself authority to grant exemptions – what remains to be seen is what color the “exemptions” are. It also gives itself even more authority to deny visas.
No administration-turned-regime would be complete without a bit of propaganda. So, under guise of keeping the public informed, it will publish lists of immigrants with criminal backgrounds, terror-related convictions, and the like on as much as a weekly basis. This will become part of a permanent government record, an official narrative that feeds off its own policy, laying the groundwork for future dystopian policy.
Here’s how they work:
Executive Order #1: Protecting The Nation From Terrorist Attacks By Foreign Nationals
The order’s salient points:
Executive Order #2: Enhancing Public Safety In The Interior of the United States
The order’s salient points:
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