No. of Recommendations: 5
1. States are free to construct barriers along the southern border as they see fit
2. The asylum program is suspended for the near future (or at least administratively modified in such a way as to have applicants do so at a US embassy)
3. Deportations will increase
4. Enforcement of employment laws will increase
5. Crackdowns on voter registrations in states like Arizona that allow illegals to vote in federal elections
Number 2 is illegal. It's already been found to be illegal. It was found to be illegal when Trump tried to do it, and it was found to be illegal when Biden tried to do it. It would be shot down in less than a week.
Number 3 is unlikely in the extreme, because the GOP killed this bill. You can't deport without a hearing except in certain statutorily defined circumstances. That's why these folks are hanging around. Because the GOP killed the extra funding for immigration judges, and killed the changes to the hearing process, and killed the changes to the asylum credible fear criteria, Trump can't deport people any faster than Biden (who is already deporting people at a faster rate than Trump).
Number 4 is unlikely in the extreme, because Trump didn't do that the first time around. He didn't prioritize or increase internal employment enforcement.
Number 5 is laughable, because it has things exactly backwards - which is why it can't work. Arizona has the laws it has because it was trying to be tougher on illegals, not make it easier. The federal motor voter law prohibits states from requiring proof of citizenship as a condition to registration. So Arizona tried to get cute and adopt a harsher registration provision - they got around the federal law by applying the requirement to provide proof of citizenship only for state elections, so that the federal law wouldn't apply. They tried to make it harder for people to register to vote without proof of citizenship, and are falsely getting blasted as an example of a state making it easier, for their sins. Without changing the federal voting statute, Trump can't do a thing.
