President Trump Blocks Caravans From Requesting Asylum With Executive Order

As promised, the Trump administration has released the executive order to deal with the caravans:

“WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, invoking national security powers meant to protect the United States against threats from abroad, announced new rules on Thursday that give President Trump vast authority to deny asylum to virtually any migrant who crosses the border illegally.

Administration officials declined to say who will be affected by the new rules, but it is widely expected inside the government and by advocate groups that Mr. Trump intends to deny asylum to migrants from Central American nations, some of whom are marching toward the United States in a widely publicized caravan. …”

In theory, the executive order will force illegal aliens seeking asylum to come in through a port of entry like San Ysidro where the last well publicized caravan crossed the border. This is undoubtedly about to get litigated by the ACLU and lawyers from a bunch of different groups in the federal courts.

President Trump isn’t wrong about our terrible immigration laws which limit what he can do here. It is up to Congress to change those laws, but the Republican majority in Congress didn’t want to do so. Mitch McConnell has refused to change the filibuster which has killed off any chances of passing controversial legislation in the Senate without attaining a nearly impossible hurdle of 60 votes.

The caravans will likely cross the border at a port of entry, request asylum and be housed in the tent cities that Trump was talking about at his recent press conference. Whether they will stay there or be released like the others after some federal court decision remains to be seen.

NPI has grown tired of this and wants to move on:

The likelihood that Trump will accomplish anything meaningful during the remainder of his term is low. The likelihood that the GOP can be made over into a party that does the right thing for its white base is lower. The likelihood that Trump will lose in 2020 is substantial.

— Evan McLaren (@EvanMcLaren) November 8, 2018

Many–perhaps most–recognized members of the Alt-Right brain trust decline to acknowledge this, and instead prefer to continue boosting Trump while constructing increasingly remote white-pill explanations for how he will rally, and how we will ultimately triumph through him.

— Evan McLaren (@EvanMcLaren) November 8, 2018

It is difficult to overstate the precariousness of the present situation for whites. European civilization stands on a precipice. Moralizing and restoring the positive, heroic consciousness of white peoples is vital. All our effort must be directed towards this.

— Evan McLaren (@EvanMcLaren) November 8, 2018

We lack spare energy for Trump’s circus and the GOP wasteland. We have our own networks to form, institutions to build, projects to advance. Continuing simply to amplify Trump’s signal is reckless at best. The empty chant that he and we are both “nationalists” changes nothing.

— Evan McLaren (@EvanMcLaren) November 8, 2018

They’re not wrong about how we are spending our own time.

It makes little sense to follow every little move of the Trump administration and remain on the edge of our seats. The chances of anything substantial getting done are slim to none at this point.