This week's news that the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the "travel ban" issued by the Trump administration did not get much attention on the mainstream news. As I watched NBC Nightly News on Monday night, there was no mention of the decision. Instead, the main message of the nightly news was NBC's presumption that President Trump will eventually be impeached for obstruction of justice.
The "travel ban" is a separate issue from immigration, but as we have learned, many who "travel" here stay for years beyond their initial declared intention and somehow become immigrants.
The mere suggestion that President Trump is anti-muslim, and the threat of the "travel ban" may have been factors behind the drop in Muslim immigration reported this summer by Pew research and the Religion News Service (a liberal outfit),
Let 'em in!
The "travel ban" is a separate issue from immigration, but as we have learned, many who "travel" here stay for years beyond their initial declared intention and somehow become immigrants.
The mere suggestion that President Trump is anti-muslim, and the threat of the "travel ban" may have been factors behind the drop in Muslim immigration reported this summer by Pew research and the Religion News Service (a liberal outfit),
(RNS) "Christians made up the majority of refugees admitted to the U.S. in the first five full months of the Trump administration, reversing a trend that saw Muslims entering the country at higher numbers under President Obama, a new Pew Research report shows."I am encouraged by the increase in Christian refugees as the world is becoming increasingly hostile to us.
Let 'em in!
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Amen! Let them come!
ReplyDeleteOne big problem with the previous policy is that we were bringing in large numbers whose foundational beliefs reject our constitutional order and common law, and we weren't allowed to evangelize them.
Why any nation would willingly accept as immigrants a people who follow a faith that ultimately wishes to overthrow that same nation is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1950s we tried to isolate Communists for that reason -- because they want to destroy our nation as it exists and substitute something else. Granted, there were excesses in that effort (although some things we thought were excesses turned out to be based in fact). The same standard, I hope without excesses, needs to be applied to Muslims. Do they support sharia? If so, they oppose the US constitution and common law. Note that no other religious groups coming here refuse cooperation with US law -- not Hindus, not Jews, not Buddhists, not Chinese or Japanese religions, not Sikhs. Only strict Islamists.
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