Le Pen has vowed to erect border barriers and bar immigration both from inside and outside Europe.
The open-door policy of pope Francis and Merkel is meeting stubborn resistance in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while Austria has decided to erect border fences and restrict the number of asylum seekers this year to 37,500.
The German decision to erect border controls may frighten the east Europeans into concessions, given that Schengen membership is one of the most highly prized aspects of EU membership for the former Soviet bloc countries, whose travel rights were severely restricted until 1989.
Ms. Goitein and other experts who have studied emergency-powers laws have said there are serious — if not dispositive — arguments that Mr. Trump's legal team can make that at least two such statutes could be used to erect border barriers by redirecting military construction funds that can be freed up, in a presidentially declared emergency, to build something Congress has not approved.
If individuals will spend so much more wisely than government, then let them build schools and roads and bridges, erect border defenses, build their own aircraft carriers and main battle tanks, weather satellites and crop forecasting methods.
But in the name of national security, these waivers are absolutely necessary to erect border barriers swiftly and efficiently, said Jayson Ahern, former acting commissioner of customs and border protection under the Bush administration.
But China is by no means the only country erecting borders in cyberspace.
For more on how governments and companies are erecting borders in cyberspace see article.
In a way, Data Islandia is erecting borders in the cloud: it intends to store European data according to European regulation and American bits according to American rules.
This is why Google at first decided to censor its Chinese search service: there was no other way to be widely accessible in the country.But China is by no means the only country erecting borders in cyberspace.
