Miller has reportedly been researching opportunities to find a public health excuse to restrict immigration since he first joined the administration. With the current pandemic, he has found his corona-shaped solution.
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According to the report, Miller has been scouring through the entire federal code looking for provisions that would allow Trump to legally halt immigration to the United States. He’s certainly showed creativity, reportedly proposing that traffickers transporting migrants across the border be designated as terrorists, so that the U.S. could deny entry to asylum seekers on the grounds that they aided a foreign terrorist organization.
Although Miller and Trump were reportedly dissuaded from these options by “cabinet secretaries and lawyers who argued that the public health situation at the time did not provide sufficient legal basis,” COVID-19 has provided an opportunity to dampen immigration without facing the public outrage that followed the Miller’s child separation policy.
The coronavirus pandemic has created an opening for some of Mr. Miller’s other longstanding policy goals, such as finding a way to quickly deport children who travel to the United States without a parent or other adult. Mr.
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