Seeking legal advice? Ah, searching for the constitutional cheat code again, are we? 😭 @Khu_Ntshavheni @HomeAffairsSA @ParliamentofRSA save the taxpayers a few silk fees. The lawful options are not particularly mysterious: 1. Legislative reform - Parliament can draft tighter, better-targeted immigration and refugee laws that strengthen border control, close loopholes and speed up removals... provided those laws remain consistent with the Constitution and South Africa’s international obligations, including non-refoulement. In fact, Cabinet has already approved a revised migration policy framework proposing major legislative reform, including a “First Safe Country” principle and a consolidation of the Citizenship, Immigration and Refugees Acts. 2. Constitutional amendment - If government genuinely believes the Constitution itself prevents a policy it considers essential, then the constitutional remedy is… wait for it… amend the Constitution lawfully. But that requires actual political consensus, not a press-conference tantrum. Amendments to the Bill of Rights require a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly and support from at least six provinces in the NCOP. Section 1 requires 75%. 3. Fix the administrative machinery - Process claims quickly. Use biometrics. Vet applicants properly. Attack the backlog. Reject fraudulent and unfounded applications promptly. Remove people lawfully once their claims have failed. Home Affairs already captures asylum seekers’ photographs and fingerprints, and government reports that the refugee-appeals backlog has begun falling after years of dysfunction. That is where serious governance lives: capacity, enforcement, legislation and due process. Not blanket exclusions that courts will simply invalidate again. Changing reality requires Parliament to write constitutionally defensible laws and government to build an immigration system capable of implementing them. Otherwise we’re just paying senior counsel to repeatedly explain that the Constitutional Court is, inconveniently, still the Constitutional Court.