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Reading the linked article, a law was passed early in Obama's term to prevent them from moving any of those prisoners to American soil. The legation was created
by flaviut 4y ago
Reading the linked article, a law was passed early in Obama's term to prevent them from moving any of those prisoners to American soil. The legation was created to intentionally frustrate Obama's promise to close the prison.
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoCongress would have to change the law. That would be hard enough by itself, but with the new House of Representatives I doubt anything will be accomplished for the next couple years.
- hgsgm 4y agoIt's unbecoming to exclusively blame Republicans for bipartisan decisions. Democrats in Congress love when you do that. A great example is when the Democrats pretended to oppose the 2017 tax reform law and then refused to repeal it when they had the majority and Presidency.
- phpisthebest 4y agoThe very nature of "illegal" immigration is that is illegal... so who does having another law prevent this illegal immigration...
- hgsgm 4y ago"Illegap immigration" is a slang term. Immigration cannot be illegal. Only behaviors after immigration can be illlegal under domestic law. The US can take actions against immigrants, How can the US pass a law that exclusively binds to foreigners in a foreign country? That violates sovereignty.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoWhat does this mean? Are there no laws criminalizing bypassing ports of Entry and custom stations. Honest question Edit: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigration-prosecutions https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigrat...