Government by decree has always been the province of kings. So, how have we arrived at this point? In America? How is it President Trump is decreeing that asylum applicants passing through other countries will no longer be eligible here?
U.S. law says refugees can request asylum when they arrive in the U.S., regardless. It doesn't even say you must apply at a port of entry or within 100 miles of the border or whatever distance. The law just says, apply when you are here.
So, along comes our president and banishes the migrants by banishing the law that allows them. Kings would do it this way.
I will take this further: Kings think the land is theirs. They take it as their power to say who comes and goes.
But, regardless whether you agree with that last point, you must consider that doing away with our current law by presidential decree is not the way America was intended to be operated.
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