Trump highlights federal law granting presidential power to halt immigration as crackdown escalates

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Trump tightens US immigration after DC shooting

� Danamarie McNicholl and law professor John Yoo join ’ to break down the Trump administration’s tighter immigration guidelines after two National Guard members were shot and former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen.

President Trump on Saturday pointed to a federal law that grants the president broad authority to restrict immigration just days after unveiling a sweeping newimmigration agenda.

In a Truth Social post,Trump highlightedSection 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the president to “suspend the entry” of non-U.S.citizens whenever it is deemed “detrimental” to the national interest.

“Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend theentry of all aliensor any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate,” Trump wrote, quoting the law.

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS POLICY ALLOWS UNLIMITED ABSENCES FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN CHILDREN AMID ICE OPERATIONS

President Trump during Oval Office meeting

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

THEIR PLAN WAS A FLOOD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.OUR ANSWER IS AN IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM

The president posted amid intensifying immigration actions by his administration after the shooting of twoNational Guardmembers in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.

On Thursday, Trump vowed to halt immigration from “Third World countries,” reverseBiden-era admissionsand remove foreign nationals he considers public threats, security risks or “non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents look over lists of names and their hearing times inside the Federal Plaza courthouse before making arrests June 27, 2025, in New York. (Bryan R.Smith/AFP via Getty Images)

TRUMP HAS MADE THE BORDER SECURE AGAIN — BUT NOW THE HARD PART BEGINS

He argued that the U.S.immigration system has been overwhelmed and said his approach would allow it to “fully recover.”

Trump also vowed to end federal benefits for noncitizens, denaturalize migrants accused of undermining “domestic tranquility” and expand deportations.

On Friday, U.S.Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it had halted all asylum decisions.

Side-by-side photos of the victims of the National Guard shooting in DC, with a background of the crime scene.

National Guard members Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, were shot in Washington, D.C.Beckstrom died after the attack.(United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia;Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, has been accused in the shooting of the twoNational Guardmembers in Washington, D.C.

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National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died after the shooting.Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition.

�s Landon Mion and Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.

Sophia was previously a business reporter covering finance, energy and tourism and has experience as a TV news producer.She graduated with a journalism degree in 2021 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.