IMMIGRATION & THE CONSTITUTION
As
someone who has studied and defended the U.S. Constitution for over 40 years I
am appalled and angered by the misinformation being thrown at the American
people by the leftist in Congress and the news media. I have watched the last
several days of coverage over the Executive Order on immigration issued by
President Donald Trump and what is generally being reported is just not true.
The order is a ban on issuing visas to
people from seven nations listed by the Obama administration as hot beds of
terrorist activity. The seven countries are Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Sudan,
and Syria. In 2011 Obama executed his executive authority to limit immigration
from Iraq for six months and there was no outcry by either the Democrats or the
liberal media. This was because what he did was completely legal.
Now, when Trump does essentially the
same thing, we are being told it is a Constitutional crisis denying
Constitutional rights to people attempting to immigrate to the United States,
and using an “unconstitutional religious test” on immigrants. So let’s look at
immigration and the Constitution.
There is only one article in the
Constitution that deals with immigration and that is Article 1, Section 8 that
empowers the Congress to make laws “To establish an uniform Rule of
Naturalization…”. The laws passed by Congress shall then be enforced by the
President. On the other hand, the only prohibition of a religious test in the
Constitution has nothing to do with immigration. The prohibition is in Article
VI of the Constitution that states: “The Senators and Representatives before
mentioned, and the members of the several state Legislatures, and all executive
and judicial officers, both of the United States and the several States, shall
be bound by Oath of Affirmation, to support this Constitution, but no religious
Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any office or public Trust
under the United States.”
In other words, there is no
Constitutional prohibition against a religious test for immigration to the
United States although it has rarely been done and was not the situation in
this case. While, the seven countries targeted are predominantly Muslim there
are forty other countries in the same category that were not on the list. This
was not a Muslim ban, but an attempt to limit immigration from countries where
Islamic terrorism is actively promoted.
For the left in this country, the
priority must not be protecting Americans from Islamic terrorism, but
protecting the non-existent Constitutional rights of immigrants who may not
even have entered the country yet. It must also be noted that of the 325, 000 foreigners
that entered the country on the day the Executive Order went into effect, only
109 people were actually detained, and most of them were released within a few
hours. Compare this to the over 250,000 American veterans who in the last few
years who have been deprived of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear
arms without any due process.
The main stream news media has ignored
these Constitutional violations because it furthers their gun control agenda.
For them, the so called constitutional rights of potential terrorists take
precedence over the rights of America’s heroes. In other word, it is all about
the leftist political agenda, which has been and continues to be the ultimate
destruction of our Constitutional Republic.
The bottom line for all of the
leftists’ purveyors of “fake news”, the Hollywood elitists with the combined
intelligence of a box of rocks, the wimpy snowflake millennials who can’t
accept that the American people rejected the career criminal that the left
wanted to be our President, and the squalling Dems in Congress is that:
1. There
is no U.S. Constitutional right to immigrate to the United States or to get a
VISA to visit our country.
2. If
you are here illegally you have no Constitutional right to stay.
3. The
U.S. Constitution gives Congress the sole right to impose any requirements it
wants on people who want to come to our country.
4. There
is no authority given to any Federal Judge to amend the Constitution to alter
these truths.
Michael
Connelly
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