No. of Recommendations: 4
The results at the border indicate that all we needed was a President willing to enforce the laws we already have to stop the rampant flow over the border.
Regardless, the authority being granted in the proposed bill was a new authority - not one that the President already had. That this new authority was conditioned did not mean that there was a restriction being imposed on the President.
To use an analogy - if I pass a new law allowing highway patrol to shoot speeders in the leg if they are going 100 mph, I'm not codifying that it's legal to go 100 mph. I'm not restricting the highway patrol by only letting them shoot speeders if they're going over 100 mph, because today they're not allowed to shoot any speeders. I'm giving the highway patrol more authority, not less, even though the authority comes with a limitation (only if the person is going over 100 mph).
