Nothing new here. Jimmah did it and nobody said nuffin.
Carter based his order on the Nationality Act of 1952. According to Rush Limbaugh:
This law was passed in 1952. Do you know what was going on in 1952, among other things? There was no immigration in 1952. It was shut down. Immigration was shut down 1924 to 1965. And why did we have this? What was the need for this in 1952? Oh, yeah, we had rampant illegal immigration. Im talking about we suspended legal immigration from 1924 to 1965, but we were being overrun in 1952 like we always are. Were the last great hope of the world. That law was written to allow the president to keep undesirables out and to kick undesirables out. Theres no mystery.
There is video of Jimmy Carter making these announcements, Limbaugh added. ABC, CBS, NBC, the odds are, have video of Jimmy Carter, just as they do of Reagan and Nixon and all the way back to Kennedy, when television started, theyve got it. Theyre just not interested in finding it. Theyre not interested in dredging it up and playing it for anybody.