Posted on 06/28/2023 10:07:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States immigration — barring “communists” and “Marxists” from entering the country.
The Republican former president, who is making another bid in 2024, on Saturday said he would use “Section 212 (f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act” to “order my government to deny entry to all communists and all Marxists.”
The announcement was reminiscent of Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term… […]
He also said there needs to be a “new law” to address communists and Marxists who grew up in America, but didn’t elaborate on what it would include. […]
U.S. immigration law says that any immigrant “… who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.” […]
In the travel ban that was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court, (University of San Francisco professor Bill) Hing said the court paid particular attention to the steps that the Trump administration had taken to check with U.S. embassies abroad on whether they could guarantee that people coming from those countries would not be a threat to the U.S. “You have to have some justification,” Hing said.
That thought was echoed by immigration attorney Allen Orr, the former president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Immigration Lawyers Association. Orr said the version that eventually made it to the high court had a “whole list of exceptions.” […] Analysts point squarely at one country: China, where tens of millions of people are members of the country’s Communist Party. …
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It’s worse than that. There were several anti-communist Executive orders passed by the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, and probably latter administrations.
It was never illegal to be a Communist per se, but you could not be employed by the Federal Government.
The way I heard it, Slick Willie Jefferson Clinton rescinded those XO’s, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Great idea one way to deport the masked democrat party.
During World War II we kept the NAZIS out. All of ‘em.
One of the reason we won that war was because we weren’t stupid and didn’t ‘have stupid leaders.
The Muzzard party.
Oh, you mean democRATs.
Both Hitlary and Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz admitted they can't tell you the difference between a RAT and a socialist.
Random Weingarten has been reported as being a member of Democratic Socialists of America, a MARXIST nation organization whose leadership has become more MARXIST since the early 1980s.
See www.DiscoverTheNetworks.com or .org
The same for the highly specialized and constantly updating their data on MARXIST extremist groups and individuals, www.keywiki.org.
The original name of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the Social Democratic Party of Russia, so no surprise there.
Agreed! Worked for the Gubment for thirty years, used to be broadly accepted policy. Everything was “are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?”
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