The Senate has rewritten the power the President used to reopen the server’s join gate, capping it at forty-eight hours and putting its use expressly within reach of the courts.

SB28, the Border Wall Location Adjustment Act, passed unanimously and was signed at 11:29am. Law Change

What Article 3 now says

The Act replaces Article 3 of the Build the Wall Act 2025 — the article cited this week in the order restoring Apply to Join — with a considerably narrower power.

The President may still enable the feature, but only “when clear and convincing present or impending danger, subject to judicial review.” An activation now expires by itself forty-eight hours after the feature is switched on.

There is one way to hold it open. If a State of Caution or any higher state of emergency is declared and remains in effect, the feature may stay on for as long as that state lasts. When the emergency ends it “shall be disabled as soon as reasonably practicable.”

The order and the clock

The order restoring Apply to Join was made citing “recent raids” — language that tracks the danger test the Senate has now written into the statute.

Which version of Article 3 that order was made under turns on the minute it was issued. The signature is timed at 11:29am. This paper has not established the time of the order, and the distinction is not academic: under the new Article 3 an activation carries an expiry, and a forty-eight hour clock is either already running or it is not.

The border, and the Constitution

Article 2 of the Act amends the Constitution directly. Article 13 §3, on Core Territories, is rewritten so that presence in a Core Territory makes a person a citizen “except for accounts confined pursuant to §5 pending a decision on their admission” — holding applicants outside citizenship while they wait at the Port of Entry.

The Act does not say whether that amendment takes effect on signature. Amendments have lately gone to the electorate instead: the Get alts out of the Senate Amendment was rejected on 29.82% Aye this week, and the Speakership Election Amendment on 47%.

Article 3 of the Act rebuilds the border system itself. It defines Immigrating Person, Border Channel, Port of Entry, Immigration Authority and Immigration Judge; puts a seven-day deadline on the Immigration Authority to accept or reject an application; and bars applicants from participating in any channel outside the Port of Entry before they are admitted.

The Act also entrenches itself. Under Article 4 §2, repealing or amending it requires five-sixths of Senators.

A drafting error survived the vote

The amended Article 3 contains two sections numbered §3.

The first is the Apply to Join power, with its forty-eight hour limit and its three sub-clauses. The second appears after §3.4 and reads: “The President may allow Immigrating Persons to bypass the border channel for a set period of time or until reversed.”

Nothing in the text distinguishes them. The duplication passed unanimously and was signed.

SB25 falls

The New User Guide Act failed 2–3–1 in the same sitting.

It would have added §6.2.1 to Article 5 of the Executive Departments Act 2025, tasking the Department of Integration with updating the New User Guide every month on both the Miraheze wiki and the National Archives. Its preamble put the case in seven words: the guide is “very old,” and “newbies need to know how SD works.”

A second article would have corrected every instance of “Simdemocracy” in that Article to “SimDemocracy”. It falls with the rest.