Biden needs a spine, not more legislation, to shut down the border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : In addition to this broad, virtually unlimited authority, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Commissioner Troy Miller, is authorized by 19 U.S.C. § 1318 (b)(2) to "close temporarily" any port of entry into the U.S. "when necessary to respond to a specific threat to human life or national interests.
48% : Trump acted under 8 U.S.C. § 1182, which states that when "the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens...."Trump also acted pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1185, which provides that the president can set the "rules, regulations, and orders" for entry of aliens into the U.S. "subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President may prescribe.
33% : PREVENT ITThe president's already existing authority to shut down the border was specifically upheld in 2018 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii over the so-called "travel ban" issued by former President Donald Trump.
26% : As Biden's political allies will no doubt remember, since they led the charge against it, Trump "shut down the border" to aliens from certain terrorist and other nations until the Department of Homeland Security could determine whether it was able to accurately verify and investigate the backgrounds of aliens from those countries.

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