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Roll of the Dice 02-09-17
Trump’s Travel Order Shields the U.S. from Real-Life Migrant Mayhem
by DEROY MURDOCK February 8, 2017 5:22 PM NATIONAL REVIEW
The seven Muslim-majority countries were initially targeted by Obama. If President Donald J. Trump really wanted a “Muslim ban,” as his manic critics insist, he would have barred from the Golden Door the citizens of Indonesia (Earth’s most populous Islamic nation), Bangladesh, and Egypt, for starters.
Instead, of 51 Muslim-majority countries and territories, Trump has placed temporary travel limits on just seven: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. While some 205 million people are affected by this 90-day order, notwithstanding court orders to the contrary, just north of 1 billion people in those 44 other places are as welcome here as ever.
Some “Muslim ban.”
Trump’s executive order actually grants federal officials a grand total of three months to figure out how to give people from those seven states stricter scrutiny — not because they are Muslims, but because those spots are awash in militant Islam. -continued below
The seven Muslim-majority countries were initially targeted by Obama. If President Donald J. Trump really wanted a “Muslim ban,” as his manic critics insist, he would have barred from the Golden Door the citizens of Indonesia (Earth’s most populous Islamic nation), Bangladesh, and Egypt, for starters.
Instead, of 51 Muslim-majority countries and territories, Trump has placed temporary travel limits on just seven: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. While some 205 million people are affected by this 90-day order, notwithstanding court orders to the contrary, just north of 1 billion people in those 44 other places are as welcome here as ever.
Some “Muslim ban.”
Trump’s executive order actually grants federal officials a grand total of three months to figure out how to give people from those seven states stricter scrutiny — not because they are Muslims, but because those spots are awash in militant Islam. -continued below
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“We will again be issuing visas to all countries once we are sure we have reviewed and implemented the most secure policies over the next 90 days,” Trump stated January 29. “America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border.”
Trump’s statutory authority to regulate immigration is incontrovertible, unilateral, and virtually absolute. In this area, the unambiguous power of the president of the United States resides in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, popularly called the McCarren-Walter Act. According to 8 U.S. Code § 1182(f):
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
And, by the way, how did Trump select the seven nations included in his executive order? Did Rush Limbaugh whisper them into his ear at an inaugural ball? Did the alt-right transmit them via semaphore?
Nope.
As the far-right CNN reported January 30, “The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump’s executive order on immigration were initially identified as ‘countries of concern’ under the Obama administration.” Obama, not Trump, reduced access to the visa-waiver program for certain individuals who traveled to any of those seven nations. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, not Trump’s, took these steps in 2015 and ’16, it announced, because of “the growing threat from foreign terrorist fighters.” continued below
And that terrorist threat remains. -continued below
Trump’s statutory authority to regulate immigration is incontrovertible, unilateral, and virtually absolute. In this area, the unambiguous power of the president of the United States resides in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, popularly called the McCarren-Walter Act. According to 8 U.S. Code § 1182(f):
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
And, by the way, how did Trump select the seven nations included in his executive order? Did Rush Limbaugh whisper them into his ear at an inaugural ball? Did the alt-right transmit them via semaphore?
Nope.
As the far-right CNN reported January 30, “The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump’s executive order on immigration were initially identified as ‘countries of concern’ under the Obama administration.” Obama, not Trump, reduced access to the visa-waiver program for certain individuals who traveled to any of those seven nations. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, not Trump’s, took these steps in 2015 and ’16, it announced, because of “the growing threat from foreign terrorist fighters.” continued below
And that terrorist threat remains. -continued below
Trump wants to shield Americans from the mayhem attempted and perpetrated by denizens of these seven nations.
Seattle-based U.S. District Judge James Robart asked a federal prosecutor last Friday how many citizens of those seven countries were arrested for terrorism in America since September 11. “Let me tell, you, the answer to that is none, as best I can tell,” Judge Robart said. As the Associated Press and other news outlets detailed, the federal jurist now at the heart of this controversy is dead wrong on this fact.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan left Somalia in 2007 for Pakistan, where he and his family arrived as refugees. They moved to America in 2014. Last November 28, while enrolled in Ohio State University in Columbus, Artan drove his car onto a campus sidewalk, jumped out, and began stabbing fellow students with a knife. He wounded eleven of them before Ohio State police officer Alan Horujko justifiably and fatally shot him. Just before his attack, Artan issued this threat via Facebook: “By Allah, we will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims.” Read more at National Review
Seattle-based U.S. District Judge James Robart asked a federal prosecutor last Friday how many citizens of those seven countries were arrested for terrorism in America since September 11. “Let me tell, you, the answer to that is none, as best I can tell,” Judge Robart said. As the Associated Press and other news outlets detailed, the federal jurist now at the heart of this controversy is dead wrong on this fact.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan left Somalia in 2007 for Pakistan, where he and his family arrived as refugees. They moved to America in 2014. Last November 28, while enrolled in Ohio State University in Columbus, Artan drove his car onto a campus sidewalk, jumped out, and began stabbing fellow students with a knife. He wounded eleven of them before Ohio State police officer Alan Horujko justifiably and fatally shot him. Just before his attack, Artan issued this threat via Facebook: “By Allah, we will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims.” Read more at National Review