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In 2006, President Bush addressed the nation and asked for “additional funding and legal authority” to “end ‘catch and release’ at the southern border once and for all.”6 In 2014, the Obama White House emphasized that “Congress’s failure to act will undercut our ability to continue to effectively and efficiently address the situation at the border.”7 In 2018, President Trump 5 President Jimmy Cart. [...] Section 212(f) of the INA Cannot be Converted into an Asylum Ban on Migrants Crossing Irregularly In 1952, Congress granted the president the authority to “suspend the entry” of “all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate,” if the president finds their entry would be “detrimental to the interests. [...] Under the rule, “if [an] alien is subject to a presidential proclamation or other presidential order suspending or limiting the entry of aliens along the southern border with Mexico that is issued pursuant to subsection 212(f) … and the alien enters the United States after the effective date of the proclamation,” then the person “shall be ineligible for asylum.”23 Like the proclamation, the regula. [...] Only after the Trump administration convinced Mexico to deploy its national guard in early June 2019 did migrant arrivals begin to drop—before any significant increase in the use of Remain in Mexico.52 Thus, a lack of correlation between fluctuations in border encounters in 2019 and the deployment timeline of Remain in Mexico throws significant doubt on the claim that the program itself was the ca. [...] This throws significant doubt on the claim that the program itself was the cause of the drop in border encounters in early June 2019 and supports the theory that it was primarily Mexico’s crackdown which caused the significant drop in arrivals in summer 2019.