Oh god, not this again. What Speaker Johnson refers to in the 2nd paragraph is INA 212(f), the authority for Trump’s travel bans.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 27, 2024
It has ZERO application to migration at the border.
You know how we know this? Because Trump did what Johnson is demanding in 2018—to NO EFFECT. https://t.co/Wyviv1xe0O pic.twitter.com/pnZ4gPJ18V
So what did the Trump admin do? They simultaneously published a new asylum regulation, under which migrants would be banned from seeking asylum for violating a 212(f) proclamation—which, again, even the Trump admin admitted didn’t do anything on its own to impact migrants. pic.twitter.com/rUJQakU2yr
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 27, 2024
Advocates sued, asking a federal judge to rule that the regulation + proclamation violated the Immigration and Nationality Act. And they won.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 27, 2024
When Trump appealed to the Supreme Court in late 2018 he lost again. Because the law was so clearly against him. https://t.co/MCj3pHqmiE
So there you have it. The thing Johnson is demanding here is functionally identical to what Trump did from November 2018 until he left office, an action which had no impact on migration and was so fundamentally useless that apparently House GOP leadership forgot it even happened. https://t.co/Wyviv1xe0O
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 27, 2024
Troy Nehls is what happened when Louie Gohmert retired and all of Texas said “What village will send its idiot to Washington now? We must uphold a fine Texas tradition!” And the area south of Houston said: “Hold muh beer!”Addendum. If I had to guess, Speaker Johnson's call for INA 212(f) in his letter came from Troy Nehls.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 27, 2024
Why do I say this? Because last June he asked me a question about this—and seemed flummoxed when I told him it already happened and didn't work. Watch: https://t.co/mQWiYHTR9r
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