Posted on 03/30/2017 8:31:36 PM PDT by Helicondelta
"Unlawful" and "extreme" is how West Michigan Rep. Justin Amash described President Donald Trump's executive order to ban refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.
"It's not lawful to ban immigrants on the basis of nationality," Amash said in the statement.
Trump's order blocks citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya from entering the country for at least 90 days. It also bans refugees from anywhere in the world for 120 days -- and from Syria indefinitely.
"Ultimately, the executive order appears to be more about politics than safety," Amash said. "If the concern is radicalism and terrorism, then what about Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others?"
Unlike many Republicans who endorsed Trump when he secured the GOP nomination, Amash never formally gave the candidate his support. He said he would neither vote for Trump nor Hillary Clinton, and would remain critical of Trump's decisions in office.
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There’s more than the poster that are acting like cultist faggots and closing their eyes like we did with Bush.
Trump’s done GREAT things, the whole transgender repeal, upping military spending, deporting, slashing EPA and State dept. and other things.
He ####ed up BAD with that tweet. HE hit at the very people who think like we do.
Maybe these folks here didn’t read the name of the Board: FREE REPUBLIC.
A REPUBLIC shouldn’t have a MASSIVE health care law and a president who got into office LARGELY because of conservative support should be hitting at RINOs, not conservatives.
Freedom Caucus voted ” yes ” to the Corker Bill giving Nukes to Iran , cloture voted TPP/TTIP as well as voted to fund Obamacare.
I take issue with Amash saying we can’t legally use country of origin to ban immigration when:
The president’s authority to declare such suspensions can been found in section 212(f) of the INA, the pertinent part of which reads as follows:
“(f) 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.”
Amash has just jumped the shark.
There is still much “stuff” floating in the swamp and it smells real bad. It is going to take a year for the administration to really figure out who Trump’s real supporters are.
First of all, it is NOT a "travel ban”. It is an INVASION BAN.
Secondly, the invasion ban is absolutely constitutional (Art IV, Sec 4). Illegal immigration and immigration of enemies is INVASION.
Don't let the Left define the issue with their lying labels and phony arguments.
Too funny!
Helicondelta once again promoting his “HFC is NeverTrump!!!!” lie, this time using a 2 month old news story on Amash who is, as everyone admits, in fact one of the only NeverTrump members of HFC.
You do know, right, don’t you, that there are many Republican NeverTrumpers in Congress who are not in HFC? How about, in the Senate for instance, let’s say.....John McCain? Or Linda Graham??
Those two are actively working against Trump every frickin day. On everything. Working against Trump as opposed to HFC that is trying to help him avoid the disaster he appears determined to blunder into.
Just too funny!!
Trump: “We must fight them (conservatives) in 2018!”
“Amash has just jumped the shark.”
Disagree. Amash jumped the shark when he was first elected.
Been supporting Trump since September of 2015.
I will not engage in mindless cheerleading however.
When he’s wrong, I will say so.
He was wrong to support Ryancare.
He was wrong to target the Freedom Caucus when there were more RINOs bailing from it than conservatives.
He is wrong to continue DACA.
I don’t think you’re right about the Corker bill or TPP, those were Senate issues.
Now you are just making stuff up. Most of these Freedom Caucus members like Amash are open border libertarians.
You keep implying that I’m a supporter of Paul Ryan but that’s a lie. The Freedom Caucus made Paul Ryan speaker and opposed Trump in the general election against Hillary. They can all go down in flames as far as I’m concerned.
The personality cult taking hold is scary.
Good grief, even the Freedom Caucus guys are never Trump frauds.
They did the right thing killing Ryancare, but they should have put forth a better plan themselves.
So the sad fact is Trump cant trust Ryan and his gang or the Freedom caucus...How can America be made great again with things being this way?
YES!
Was it Ryancare that first turned you against Trump? Or was there something earlier? Seems like you have had issues since your September 2015 epiphany.
30 guys can’t elect a Speaker against 200+ RINOs.
But you knew that.
“It’s not lawful to ban immigrants on the basis of nationality,” Amash said in the statement.
Have you ever read the Constitution?
I have been supporting Trump since before he even announced his candidacy.
I think our side is WRONG to be so determined to defeat Trump in his efforts to modify Obamacare.
There are MILLIONS of Americans who benefit from the program. We cannot simply leave them. Nope. Our healthcare system has gotten prohibitively expensive, and lots of people need help.
That is what Trump was trying to come up with a compromise, to accomplish.
Yet there was the hard-right “freedom caucus” which was determined to roll back healthcare to what it was.
Nope.
It was not right. I respect those who are on that side of the issue (including the owner of this fine website, I might add) but there are millions of Americans who hold another view.
I happen to be one of those Americans.
I am proud of Trump’s position, and think he’s the ONLY GUY anywhere who seems to get it.
Trump never ran on repealing Obamacare.
Trump ran on repealing, and REPLACING Obamacare.
That means replacing. That is not what the freedom caucus has been about.
Trump is on the right path.
You people are basically becoming a parody!
What in God's name is this idiot talking about?
Discrimination by nationality in immigration has been the law of the United States for their entire history.
The 1882 Exclusion Act banned Chinese nationals. The Gentleman's Agreement of 1907 was not law that prevented Japanese from immigrating, but acted as one to prevent the assured passage of one. The 1924 Act contained the National Origins formula that heavily favored Northern Europeans since those were the people who founded the nation and populated it up until the flood of people in the 1890s. The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 allowed more Chinese in after the war but preserved the 1924 Act.
The man is entirely full of crap. A free nation has the absolute right to determine it's own laws and future. There is no prohibition on who they may or may not allow to come to their country: it's a matter of self preservation.
If Amash or his buddies in the extremist judiciary were right, then what would there be to stop say 100 million Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers from simply "immigrating" to America and bringing their weapons with them since of course he would insist they have 2nd Amendment rights too?
Is Invasion a civil right?
It's an absurdity. The man's insane.
He’s in the freedom cuck-us ? The fake conservatives that pretended to have repealed Obamacare before . Even though all they did was pass a bill to defund planned parenthood . Planned parenthood has probably gotten rid of more democrats/socialists than anything we could conjure up . We’d be a communist state by now without democrats killing their kids over the last 40 or so years. Anyone who doesn’t support the travel ban is not conservative or American for that matter . Says allot that he’s in the freedom cuck-us group.
Nope, just Ryancare and continuing Obama’s illegal DACA program. It has no basis in law and was dreamed up by Obama and Trump said he would end it and hasn’t. It does not become legal just because Trump continues it.
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