Trump advisers hunt for disease to justify emergency border closure: report

President-elect Donald Trump's team is searching for a disease that they can use to declare a public health emergency to seal the border, reported The New York Times on Thursday.

Specifically, Trump wants an excuse to invoke Section 265 of Title 42, the provision that suspends entries through the border and summarily expels migrants during a period when the surgeon general has declared a communicable disease emergency. This power, which became a big part of Trump's border control strategy in his first term...