The Importance of Asylum Law in the Trump Administration

Title 42, Chapter 6A, Subchapter 2 Part G, Section 264 is a part of US federal law that gives the government the authority to take emergency action. The portion which allows a sweeping disregard for asylum law was passed in 1944. Before President Donald Trump's administration used it on March 20th, 2020, it had been used only in 1929 to keep ships from China and the Philippines from entering US ports during a meningitis outbreak.