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Create an emergency power to bar entry, exempt from normal rulemaking

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 152. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Create an emergency power to bar entry, exempt from normal rulemaking

The document says “shallWho acts: Congress, Secretary of Homeland SecurityHow: legislationp. 152 in the PDF
What the document says

“Such rule and regulation making shall not be subject to the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 152

The chapter proposes statutory language letting the Secretary, on determining that an actual or anticipated mass migration presents urgent circumstances, and with the President's approval, make rules barring the entry of people from designated countries and expelling them. The quoted sentence exempts those rules from the Administrative Procedure Act, which sets the normal notice and comment requirements. The chapter further proposes that the Secretary be able to waive any requirement of Title 8 he or she judges necessary.

What the document actually says

“Such rule and regulation making shall not be subject to the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 152
That sentence, in plain words

These new rules would not have to follow the usual law for making rules.

What this is about

There is a law about how rules get made. It requires notice and public comment. The book asks for a new power that skips it. It would be used when many people arrive at once.

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