WSJ: Trump Plans To Knowingly Defy Immigration Laws

The Wall Street Journal reports:

President-elect Donald Trump has promised a crackdown on illegal immigration and significant changes to immigration laws. Now his advisers will contend with long-existing headwinds to turn Trump’s campaign rhetoric into policy. Most immigrants in the U.S. illegally can’t be deported without a hearing in immigration court, where they have a chance to ask for asylum or another avenue to stay in the country.

Many of the changes proposed by Trump and Stephen Miller, his incoming deputy chief of staff, can only be done through Congress—or perhaps even through a constitutional amendment. Trump’s advisers have said that he hopes to test the limits of the law by issuing policies he knows to be unlawful, or even unconstitutional, in a bid to persuade the Supreme Court, which is dominated by conservatives, to come to different decisions.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers will have to solve funding challenges and legal questions to make his proposed crackdown on illegal immigration a reality https://t.co/mwUBDOxYCR via @WSJ

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) January 2, 2025