(As I begin this series, a note or two:
I will copy and paste the names of the actions directly from the official White House website. Leaving the capitalization intact serves as a reminder of the type of people we are dealing with. Screaming is always the best way to get your point across, no matter what those pansy snowflake libtards say.
I will invariably end up putting color commentary in the middle of my descriptions, so it will be noted with italic text within parenthesis and colored.
Links to the official White House .gov page will be included at the end of every post.)
Order Description
A significant portion of this order is dedicated to explaining how naturalization works and how the process is ineffective to execute at the border. There is a good deal of blame being hurled at the previous administration but that will be a theme throughout all of these orders.
Once you get past the “Here’s how we see the problem” intro text that starts the order, you get to the meat and bones of it.
Section 1 – Suspension of Entry
Exactly as it sounds. There is additional wording about how every alien attempting entry is considered invading, whether they are doing so legally or not.
This order is open-ended, allowing Trump to decide when the invasion has ceased.
Section 2 – Imposition of Restrictions on Entry for Aliens Invading the United States
This section imposes restrictions on aliens who attempt to utilize language set forth by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to remain in the United States. It suspends their rights to remain even in the event they can provide just cause.
(This section also has text allowing Trump to decide when such an invasion has ended. Spoiler alert, it won’t ever officially end.)
Section 3 – Suspension of and Restriction on Entry for Aliens Posing Public Health, Safety, or National Security Risks
Any aliens attempting entry into the United States must provide criminal background history and medical records to indicate what level of threat they may pose to the United States and its citizens. Any of these people who refuse to provide such documentation will be denied entry and will not be able to utilize the provisions set forth by the INA.
(This is a burden of proof that few aliens seeking any form of naturalization will be able to meet. They tend to show up with whatever they are wearing and run ragged from the journey. It is a prohibition on all but the most dedicated and informed foreign nationals seeking a home here.)
Section 4 – Constitutional Suspension of Physical Entry
Trump is utilizing Article II of the Constitution to suspend all border crossings, labeling them all as an invasion. This language is being used to claim that what is occurring is an invasion that he has the Constitutional authority to stop.
(When you hear “sealing the border” this is part of what they are referring to.)
Section 5 – Operational Actions to Repel the Invasion
This section grants relevant departments and Trump carte blanche in their efforts to detain and expel all migrants who pass the border as long as the order remains in effect.
(There isn’t anything extraordinary in this section. It just attempts to spell out who all can remove people. This includes Homeland Security, Secretary of State, and Attorney General, in addition to Trump.)
Section 6 – General Provisions
(Every order will feature boilerplate provisions that are meant to address relevant oversight. I will copy and paste them verbatim on this post to spell them out and then leave them out of subsequent posts.)
(a) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This proclamation shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.
(That last little bit explaining the 249th year is a pompous bunch of horse shit isn’t it? How’s about we brag when we are more than halfway as old as most of the countries in Europe, k?)
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