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2 Big Time Law Professors Make Announcement About Trump’s Muslim Plan That’ll Drop Jaws
Donald Trump recently released a plan that called for banning all Muslim immigration to the U.S for the time being.
A campaign press release stated: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
Trump’s plan to ban all Muslim immigration has caused considerable controversy; many are declaring the plan unconstitutional because it targets a specific religion.
Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate and a law school graduate himself, declared that the plan “violates the Constitution” last week.
However, a couple of prominent legal experts, Jan C. Ting and Eric Posner, have weighed in recently on Trump’s plan, claiming it is constitutional.
Ting, who is a professor at Temple University’s School of Law and a former Immigration and Naturalization Services commissioner for the Department of Justice, told the Daily Caller that “no kind of immigration restriction is unconstitutional. The U.S. government can exclude a foreign national on any basis.”
Ting also said: “The statutes are clear. The Supreme Court has ruled we can enact laws against foreign nationals that would not be permissible to apply to citizens. The courts historically have no role in these decisions.”
He spoke of how Mexican and Filipino immigrants have to “wait in line for years” to get into the U.S. because of the already high number of immigrants coming in from these countries.
Posner, who is the fourth most cited legal expert in the U.S., also spoke favorably of Trump’s plan in two blog posts on his website.
He stated in a Tuesday post that “constitutional protections that normally benefit Americans and people on American territory do not apply when Congress decides who to admit and who to exclude as immigrants or other entrants.” He added that the proposed plan is “probably not” unconstitutional.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/2-big-time-law-professors-make-announcement-about-trumps-muslim-plan-thatll-drop-jaws/
