Trumps Immigration Ban Is Illegal
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that purports to bar for at least 90 days almost all permanent immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Syria and Iraq, and asserts the power to extend the ban indefinitely.
But the order is illegal. More than 50 years ago, Congress outlawed such discrimination against immigrants based on national origin.
That decision came after a long and shameful history in this country of barring immigrants based on where they came from. Starting in the late 19th century, laws excluded all Chinese, almost all Japanese, then all Asians in the so-called Asiatic Barred Zone. Finally, in 1924, Congress created a comprehensive national-origins system, skewing immigration quotas to benefit Western Europeans and to exclude most Eastern Europeans, almost all Asians, and Africans.
Mr. Trump appears to want to reinstate a new type of Asiatic Barred Zone by executive order, but there is just one problem: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 banned all discrimination against immigrants on the basis of national origin, replacing the old prejudicial system and giving each country an equal shot at the quotas. In signing the new law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said that the harsh injustice of the national-origins quota system had been abolished.
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doc03
(35,340 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)still_one
(92,204 posts)doc03
(35,340 posts)sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)sheshe2
(83,785 posts)and do NOT forget the straight jacket.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Shipwack
(2,162 posts)To misquote someone,"How many divisions does congress command?"
It's a moot point, anyway. Republicans controll congress, and they are never interested in enforcing rules for other Republicans.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Malcom Nance, on AM Joy today, said this will create terrorists out of good people who would not have turned without this asinine ban....all from countries who have not had people attack us. Why those nations and not Nations like the Saudis who have produced people who attacked us? Because Orange Hitler has business ties in those countries.
And really....if you are not 100% Native American you are a descendant of immigrants.
Decent past republicans like Ike and Nelson Rockefeller are certainly spinning in their graves. Of course many descendants of those two are now democrats.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)grown legs in the news media... yet.
The NY Daily News apparently broke the story.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)He married a onetime illegal immigrant, after all.
tavernier
(12,389 posts)The fact that ppl were actually following his instructions is the scary part.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)For civil rights or other violations?