Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
Our country is being overwhelmed, public services are being denied citizens, gangs and other bad actors are entering under the cover of border chaos, etc.

It is embarrassing to feel we need to ask for forgiveness and justify our transgression by saying we were only going to protect our borders just a little bit and only for a short while.

It's embarrassing that we're not managing our affairs enough to give people a simple hearing, even an administrative one, and have to resort to violating our treaty obligations and basic due process and international human rights law instead.

Nothing in the treaty on refugees prevents us from "protecting our borders." It only requires us to give people a hearing before we expel them.

Every totalitarian state, every dictatorship, every country that violates human rights offers as a justification the need to protect their citizens and provide security. The response from the West has always been that you don't need to violate human rights in order to provide those things. You can protect your citizens by protecting your citizens, not by taking the shortcut of human rights violations.

So, no - the U.S. going out onto the world stage and telling them to KMA because we'd rather violate our treaty obligations than properly provide the minimal amount of due process for these folks in perpetuity is probably be very bad for our foreign policy efforts, on human rights and a host of other goals. Which is why there's a sunset provision in there.