>A number of crucial issues in immigration law and policy now turn on the meaning of a previously little-noticed term in the Constitution: “invasion.” The Trump administration and some red state governments claim that illegal migration and drug smuggling across the southern border qualify as “invasion” under the Constitution and the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. If this ill-founded argument is not rejected by the courts, it would have dangerous and far-reaching implications. Among other things, it would empower the federal government to detain people without charge or trial, and open the door for states to engage in war with neighboring foreign nations without congressional authorization.
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democrats stretch the law to do stuff like loan forgiveness, republicans do it to destroy the 14th amendment or grant unlimited powers to the president
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>A number of crucial issues in immigration law and policy now turn on the meaning of a previously little-noticed term in the Constitution: “invasion.” The Trump administration and some red state governments claim that illegal migration and drug smuggling across the southern border qualify as “invasion” under the Constitution and the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. If this ill-founded argument is not rejected by the courts, it would have dangerous and far-reaching implications. Among other things, it would empower the federal government to detain people without charge or trial, and open the door for states to engage in war with neighboring foreign nations without congressional authorization.
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democrats stretch the law to do stuff like loan forgiveness, republicans do it to destroy the 14th amendment or grant unlimited powers to the president
this is dangerous – lawlessness is escalating