They have that EXCLUSIVE power under the Constitution, and prospective immigrants and visitors are not protected by any element of the Constitution, including the 14th Equal Protection Clause.
Or the 1st Amendment.
Or, for that matter the 5th...as demonstrated by our hundreds of drone strikes overseas.
In the 20's, immigrants were screened for health and disease, ability to support themselves short and long term, AND Religion and country of origin.
Eventually, everyone who has an emotional reaction is going to have to walk back their statements.
What Trump proposes is 100% legal and Constitutional, should Congress pass it.
In fact, a President Trump could probably use Obama's EOs as precedent to do it via EO.
That's how Roosevelt did much of his security work during WW II.
You are so right! (see also #104 above)
Extending that thought further, from a legal standpoint, will a U.S. Citizen have the right to claim a violation of Equal Protection because his fiance was denied entry to this country on the basis of religion. Or do you think that they would lack standing to sue?