Forbes Interview on How to Limit Presidential Power Over Immigration

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In an interview with Stuart Anderson in Forbes, published today, I discuss possible strategies for limiting presidential power over immigration by reforming a federal law that the Supreme Court has interpreted as giving the president virtually unlimited power to bar potential immigrants from entering the United States. Here is an excerpt:

Section 212(f) [of the Immigration and Nationality Act]… gives the president the power to bar entry into the U.S. by any foreign national whom he deems to be “detrimental to the interests of the United States…”

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