Orlando, San Bernardino, and Chattanooga are just a few of our cities scarred by atrocities committed by refugees or aliens from known hotbeds of terrorism, or by their spouses or children who grew up among us. The bombers of the Boston Marathon were sons of refugees, and the recent attack at Ohio State University was committed by an 18-year-old refugee from Somalia.
The Supreme Court has ruled that aliens outside the United States have no right to sue to enter our country. The President can even revoke their visas if he believes it is in the national interest to do so. And if the aliens themselves have no right to sue, no one else has the right to sue on their behalf. This is why Washington state’s Judge James Robart’s dangerous ruling against Trump’s travel restriction shocked legal scholars.
The famous Quinnipiac poll recently sampled nearly a thousand registered voters, finding that by a margin of 48 percent to 42 percent, voters support “suspending immigration from terror prone regions, even if it means turning away refugees.” By a margin of 53 percent to 41 percent, voters also said they would support requiring immigrants from Muslim-majority nations to register with American officials.
Rasmussen reported similar results supporting a temporary halt on refugees from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The president’s proposal was supported by 82 percent of Republicans, 59 percent of independents, and 34 percent of Democrats.
Newsweek magazine sent a reporter to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, which flipped from supporting Obama by 5 points in 2012 to a 20-point victory for Trump in 2016. Voters there overwhelmingly support the President’s policy, with one former Bernie Sanders supporter saying of Trump: “I don’t think he’s picked out a religion, he’s picked out countries that need more vetting.”
Click here to listen to today's commentary:
No comments:
Post a Comment