As long as he’s not calling for an outlawing of Islam in America it wouldn’t be a 1st Amendment issue.
“Congress shall make no law establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
He’s not saying you can’t practice Islam. He’s saying you just can’t practice Islam and immigrate here.
I’m not planning on voting for Trump, but from a Constitutional standpoint, he’s in the clear on this one.
The leftist scum are already screaming about 1st Amendment -funny how they use the Constitution when it fits their needs/agenda. F’n hypocrits!
Love or hate Trump, not many have the balls to say this. Watch his #’s go up even higher.
That’s rather anathema to our origins. This country began with immigrating groups who weren’t liked by anyone on either side of the pond.
Careful how you word/work it. “Followers of religion X can’t come here” is functionally equivalent to “arms of type X can’t be imported”, and both infringe on enumerated rights. Beware falling into the seduction of infringing a right by “oh we don’t prohibit X, we’re just hampering your ability to get to it.”
I’ll take the unpopular position of saying: no requirement to state religion on immigration forms. Like RKBA, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” means what it says. Too much of this is sounding like recycled anti-gun rhetoric, just replacing “arms” with “religion”.
We _do_ need to work out other ways of identifying the problem. The correct solutions will stand without sweeping rhetoric (akin to “ban assault weapons!”). If you don’t give a valid address, or are known associated with declared-enemy groups, etc then that should be enough to reject entry. Alas I haven’t yet sufficiently thought of what they are, which will make me a target on FR.