Trump pushes new bill making it illegal for future presidents ‘to open the border again’
Catch-and-release was a memo. Trump wants the next memo to be a crime.
Summary
- The New York Post reports President Trump, speaking Wednesday at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, floated a 'No Invasion of Our Country Act' that he said would make it 'legally impossible for any future president to destroy our country by having the right to open the border again.'
- It is unclear whether Congress can take the bill up before the Nov. 3 midterms. Comprehensive immigration statutes have not cleared both chambers since the 1990s. Several signature Trump bills, including the voter ID measure, still have not passed both houses.
- Joe Biden used executive orders to unwind first-term enforcement. Trump restored emergency detention and swift removal in January 2025. Republicans blamed Biden-era catch-and-release for more than 8 million encounters. Daily border arrests have since dropped more than 90 percent, the Post reported, with none released into the interior under the current policy.
- Trump's first second-term statute, the Laken Riley Act, requires detention of migrants charged with burglary, theft, assault on officers, or violent crimes, closing the gap that let Riley's killer remain free. Reconciliation last year also funded wall miles and more officers.
Commentary
A Sunland Park welder still tastes desert dust and knows a wall section is steel, not a speech. He did not tie rebar in August heat so the next White House could unlock the line with a pen.
Eight million. Ninety percent down. One named act. The honest household already paid the levy. The next president should not get a reset switch.
Look every working father who still lives inside that fence line in the eye and answer this: if a memo can undo a wall, who still owns the next mile of steel?
Comments
Dallas Wednesday. Laken Riley Act. 90 percent drop. Hold that chain.
I stood a river so a runner stayed boxed. A future memo is not a welcome desk.
No Invasion bill. Nov. 3 clock. 1990s last comprehensive statute. Publish the four.
Allied lines still write enforcement into statute. A pen is not a border.
Eight million encounters. Catch-and-release unwind. Wall funding. File the four.
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next mile locked in law, not in a briefing.
A reset switch in 2029 is not flexibility. It is a warning the street already paid.
A statute on the line is a second lock on a future pen. The first 90 percent should have been enough to keep.
NY Post printed Dallas, 8 million, and 90 percent. Argue those nouns.
Write the statute. Keep the drop. A memo is not a nation.
