Donald Trump defiant as Muslim ban draws widespread condemnation

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump added a few caveats Tuesday to his call to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country, but condemnation still rained down upon him form his party's top elected officials and from world leaders, including America's closest allies, England and France.

The proposal to close the borders to Muslim immigrants and visitors was never intended to apply to foreign dignitaries or American Muslims who travel abroad and wish to return, said the billionaire businessman and reality TV star.

He just wanted to stop a new wave of Muslims from moving in "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on" with radical Islamic terrorists, he said repeatedly in a series of appearances on TV news shows.

"What I'm doing is no different than FDR," Mr. Trump said on ABC's "Good Morning America," referring to President Franklin Roosevelt's policies during World War II that put Japanese, German and Italian people in detention camps.

And yet furious objections that Mr. Trump's plan was unconstitutional, un-American and downright bigoted grew exponentially and spread around the globe the day after he proposed it.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said through a spokeswoman that Mr. Trump's idea was "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong."

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, whose country continues to recover from the Islamic State attack on Paris last month that killed 130 people, took to Twitter to admonish Mr. Trump.

"Mr. Trump, like others, strokes hatred and confusion: our only enemy is radical Islam," he wrote.

Egypt's official religious organization, Dar al-Ifta, denounced Mr. Trump for spewing "hate rhetoric."

All those fools just unknowingly backed Obamaâ€™s refusal to use his existing Constitutional power to shut down muslim aliens entering the country until they can be properly vetted.

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 inâ€”
(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 whoâ€”
(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)) ofâ€”
(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.htm Security and related grounds:

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