ABC News Digs Up Video of Jimmy Carter Announcing Ban on Iranian Immigration

RUSH: Grab sound bite number two. This is April 7, 1980. April 7, 1980. I was working for the Kansas City Royals, my second of five years there. I was 29-years-old. This is ABC's World News Tonight. Sam Donaldson reporting about Jimmy Carter cutting ties with Iran.

DONALDSON: After meeting with his advisors for two-and-a-half hours to review the decisions, Mr. Carter came down to the pressroom to announce them.

CARTER: The militants controlling the embassy have stated they are willing to turn the hostages over to the government of Iran, but the government has refused to take custody of the American hostages. This lays bare the full responsibility of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Revolutionary Council.
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DONALDSON: The president ordered four steps immediately: A complete break in diplomatic relations: Iranian diplomats must leave the United States by tomorrow midnight. Official sanctions preventing exports to Iran. An inventory of frozen Iranian assets of over $8 billion, and a virtual shutting off of all Iranian immigration into this country by refusing new visas to Iranian citizens. Moreover, the president warned these four steps may be just the beginning.

CARTER: Other action may become necessary if these steps do not produce the prompt release of the hostages.

RUSH: And what is this, everybody saying that Trump's violating the Constitution, breaking the law, embarrassing us here? Jimmy Carter, 1980. I think we may have forced ABC to go to their archives and produce that. They put it on their website, anyway. You heard it.

RUSH: Josh Earnest. Grab audio sound bite 25. This is how the Democrats in chapter 89,000 in the Democrats trying to help the Republican Party book. This afternoon, White House press briefing, CNN reporterette infobabe, Michelle Kosinski, said, "Twenty-five percent of Americans in a poll support Trump's plan to halt allowing Muslims into the country temporarily." Now, in other polls, it's much more than 25%. In many polls, it's a majority. But I guess she's talking about her own poll at CNN. Anyway, 25%. "Does that number surprise you, Josh? I mean, as much as you can separate out one particular view from the majority view, the numbers don't lie. That's a big chunk of people, Josh. And to what would you attribute that amount of support for something that you described as 'morally reprehensible'?"

EARNEST: What we are seeing here is a pretty cynical attempt on the part of one Republican politician to capitalize on people's fears and anxieties and divide the American public solely for personal political gain, and that's offensive. The continued insistence on the part of Republican candidates for president and other leaders in the Republican Party that they would vote for somebody, potentially, for president of the United States who holds such offensive, divisive views that run counter to the very values of this country, is, in and inventories alarming and does not bode well for the future of the Republican Party.

RUSH: Really? You really care about that, huh? You really care about the future of the Republican Party, eh, Josh? Josh, I think practically every one of them has denounced him, haven't they? Except Ted Cruz. Every other Republican candidate, every Republican that you can name has denounced Trump on this. Paul Ryan. Dick Cheney. There isn't a Republican outside of Cruz that hasn't denounced Trump. What more do you want here?

But here, again, I have to listen to this guy start preaching to us about American values. And I'm sorry, the Democrat Party just doesn't hold 'em as far as I'm concerned. A party that openly promotes the slaughter of babies in the womb and then dissecting them for body parts for sale does not have any credibility with me talking about "American values," 'cause, I'm sorry: Those aren't American values. And I could list a bunch of things just like that that are reprehensible to me. Go back to Josh Earnest.

"This is un-American. It's unacceptable, violates American values." Grab sound bite number two again. This is Sam Donaldson, ABC News, back on April 7th of 1980.

DONALDSON: After meeting with his advisors for two-and-a-half hours to review the decisions, Mr. Carter came down to the pressroom to announce them.

CARTER: Other action may become necessary if these steps do not produce the prompt release of the hostages.

RUSH: All right, now, I've had people say to me, "Rush, Rush, wait a minute. There's a little bit of a difference here. Jimmy Carter is banning people from a country and Trump's moratorium is people of a religion." You know, that's one of the great sticking points. It's an ideology. I think that comparison kind of misses the point. We're talking about the same types of politically motivated people here in the kinds of people Jimmy Carter wanted to send home, wanted to register, and would permit or deny entry into the country. This is only a common sense.

All Trump said was we need a moratorium until we figure out what the hell is happening here and how best to deal with it.

RUSH: I want to go back to the 1952 law, ladies and gentlemen. I mean, this smarmy, snarky, arrogant, condescending, morally superior Josh Earnest and people like that just rub me like fingernails on a chalkboard. All of this superiority and, "We're smarter and we're better," and this arrogance combined just grates me. I want you to listen to this, 'cause you people have called and said, "Hey, wait a minute, Rush. Carter banned people from a country. Trump's talking about a whole religion. 8 US Code section 1182: "Inadmissible Aliens." You listening?

"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, the president 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." This is during a period of time 1952 when we had shut down immigration.

The only immigration was illegal, and a law was passed to give the president proclamation power to throw them out, to prevent them from entering. It's entirely American values. This is United States statutory law, Mr. Earnest. Any class of aliens as immigrants. "Any class" pretty much covers it, don't you think? Anyway, we're talking about common sense here. We're talking about common sense, and people want to deny it. I tell you, this this this is this is roiling the people of this country like the people in Washington, I still don't think they know, and they're about to get a taste and find out.

More on the 1952 law Rush was talking about.

Todayâ€™s mediots and Obama’s pro Isis inner circle thugs need to update their knowledge of immigration law to 1952!

Federal Law re no entry to bad people wanting to come to America.

This law was passed in 1952 by a Democrat controlled congress, signed by a democrat president, Truman and okayed by a Democrat controlled Supreme Court.

Jimmy Carter, the kind hearted Cino Democrat, used this law while he was president to prevent Iranians from coming to America and get many in America, sent back to Iran.

Per existing federal law at 8 USC 1182:

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 appropriate.

Current laws banning admission to the US, and not requiring new laws. Just need someone like Trump to have them enforced:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE-2011-title8-chap12-subchapII-partII-sec1182.htm
gpo~government printing office:
No admission for any alien for Security and related grounds
(3) Security and related grounds
(A) In general
Any alien who a consular officer or the Attorney General knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, seeks to enter the United States to engage solely, principally, or incidentally in
(i) any activity (I) to violate any law of the United States relating to espionage or sabotage or (II) to violate or evade any law prohibiting the export from the United States of goods, technology, or sensitive information,
(ii) any other unlawful activity, or
(iii) any activity a purpose of which is the opposition to, or the control or overthrow of, the Government of the United States by force, violence, or other unlawful means,
is inadmissible.
(B) Terrorist activities
(i) In general
Any alien who
(I) has engaged in a terrorist activity;
(II) a consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, is engaged in or is likely to engage after entry in any terrorist activity (as defined in clause (iv));
(III) has, under circumstances indicating an intention to cause death or serious bodily harm, incited terrorist activity;
(IV) is a representative (as defined in clause (v)) of
(aa) a terrorist organization (as defined in clause (vi)) or
(bb) a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity;
(V) is a member of a terrorist organization described in subclause (I) or (II) of clause (vi)
(VI) is a member of a terrorist organization described in clause (vi)(III), unless the alien can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the alien did not know, and should not reasonably have known, that the organization was a terrorist organization;
(VII) endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization;
(VIII) has received military-type training (as defined in section 2339D(c)(1) of title 18) from or on behalf of any organization that, at the time the training was received, was a terrorist organization (as defined in clause (vi)); or

(IX) is the spouse or child of an alien who is inadmissible under this subparagraph, if the activity causing the alien to be found inadmissible occurred within the last 5 years,
is inadmissible. An alien who is an officer, official, representative, or spokesman of the Palestine Liberation Organization is considered, for purposes of this chapter, to be engaged in a terrorist activity.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE-2011-title8-chap12-subchapII-partII-sec1182.htmSecurity and related grounds

Rush Limbaugh discusses how Jimmy Carter used this law to expel thousands of Iranians.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3370465/posts
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Over here, everybody in the establishment in the political class, Republican, Democrat, media, you name it, is all claiming that what Trump said is dumb, stupid, reckless, dangerous, unconstitutional, while it is the law of the land. And it was utilized by Jimmy Carter, no less, in 1979 to keep Iranians out of the United States, but he actually did more. He made all Iranian students already here check in, and then he deported a ton of them.

There is precedent for everything Donald Trump has said he wants to do. And if you listen to the wizards of smart in this country and our political establishment, you will think that this stuff is just unheard of, it is almost unspeakable, itâ€™s just indecent. Here we have in the establishment the reputed best and brightest, the smartest. We are not even qualified to be in their company no less. And theyâ€™re dunces on this.

In November the 1979 United States attorney general had given all Iranian students one month to report to the local immigration office. Seven thousand were found in violation of their visas, 15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the United States, 1979. When this law, inadmissible aliens I just read to you, which I am gonna be reading a lot to you today to the point youâ€™re gonna get tired of hearing it, but you will not forget it.

Please send this to fellow conservatives, media outlets and to liberals, who need a whack in the head with reality of how their President Truman signed this law and later Carter used it to get rid of a lot of potentially dangerous Iranians.

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