• Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Just a reminder that in early June Texas voted to defund the wall. 8% has been built. There’s no crisis.

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    But Moss said those limitations go far beyond what the law allows. Existing procedures in the Immigration and Nationality Act, the judge said, provide the “sole and exclusive” means for the federal government to deport people who cross the border illegally — no matter how cumbersome or inadequate the administration views the process. Trump’s proclamation established “an alternative immigration system” that has no basis in law, the judge ruled.

    “Nothing in the INA or the Constitution grants the President … the sweeping authority asserted in the Proclamation and implementing guidance,” Moss wrote in the 128-page ruling. “An appeal to necessity cannot fill that void.”