Thank you for all the legal reasoning you have demonstrated in this thread. I now have ample ammunition to justify the actions of my Confederate ancestors, when they summarily executed Yankee officers for inciting servile insurrection in the south. Terrorism should never be permitted to go unchalleged.
well, take from it whatever you will.
however, my line of reasoning on this issue is going to lose ultimately in the SCOTUS. and don't think this will not go un-noticed by our enemies - who will seek to have their cell members in the US obtain legal resident and citizenship status as quickly as possible so they can be protected by the judicial system of the country they are trying to destroy.