who the pres literally put in charge of leading the admin's management of this crisis.

What's even the rationale behind open discouragement as a policy?? "Do not come"... because it would make her job easier? That's like the admin adopting a policy of discouraging Black people from getting pregnant instead of focusing on the systemic issues driving disproportionately high Black maternal mortality.

Furthermore, the question of whether she's even empowered to encourage or discourage asylum seekers to migrate was settled long ago when the US voted for and/or signed and/or ratified the relevant resolutions, conventions, and protocols enshrining asylum-seekers' rights and the responsibilities of any countries who receive them. Right of Asylum is a fundamental protection we're all afforded by international human rights law.

So even a counterfactual defense is not favorable to KH here. What would help stem the flow is effective management of the crisis both domestically and abroad, not some baseless decree.