It's Time for a Grown-Up Alternative to Trump's Crude Muslim-Immigration Proposal

National Review ^ | December 8, 2015 | Mark Krikorian

[reaganaut1]

Donald Trump has again succeeded in setting the terms of political debate, this time by calling for a temporary halt to the admission of all Muslims from abroad, whether as immigrants or as visitors ("nonimmigrants" being the technical term). Everyone's outraged, of course, but this is a topic that needs to be addressed head-on.

First of all, it's important to underline that Congress can exclude or admit any foreigner it wants, for any reason or no reason. Non-Americans have no constitutional right to travel to the United States and no constitutional due-process rights to challenge exclusion; as the Supreme Court has written multiple times, "Whatever the procedure authorized by Congress is, it is due process as far as an alien denied entry is concerned." What's more, while the president doesn't have the authority that Obama has claimed, to let in anyone he wants for any reason (under the guise of "parole"), he does have the statutory authority to keep anyone out, for any reason he thinks best.

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[L]arge Muslim populations, continually refreshed by ongoing mass immigration, are a problem. Polling suggests between a quarter and a third are not attached to the principles of the Constitution, supporting things such as sharia law over U.S. law and the use of violence against those who insult Islam. Nor is this merely hypothetical; Muslims account for only about 1 percent of the U.S. population but account for about half of terrorist attacks since 9/11. That means Muslims in the United States are about 5,000 percent more likely to commit terrorist attacks than non-Muslims.

[Impy]

My grown up alternative, let the Muslims in, shoot them dead on the tarmac. Encourage them to keep coming.

[GOPsterinMA]

TES!!! YES, MOFO!!!

[JediJones]

Perhaps it will help, but this war will NOT end without great bloodshed. The Nazis and the Japanese weren’t stopped until their ENTIRE group, population and culture was openly threatened with total, fiery annihilation. That IS what it will take this time too before the Muslims are neutralized as a threat. Whether that makes them surrender or they simply accept the annihilation.

[JediJones]

Yes, and even if we identify the “good” Muslims and they come here, their kids remain ripe picking for converts to militant jihadism. So it’s not worth the risk. Even if 90% of Muslims are good, decent, law-abiding people, it doesn’t provide any comfort after the other 10% has slaughtered you. And since there is NO WAY to separate the good from the bad, and the good have shown a habit of becoming bad, then the ONLY way to keep America safe is to keep all Muslims out.