Quote:It isn't unconstitutional?


News to me.

Banning immigration from certain countries isn't unconstitutional. We've had immigration restrictions, in various forms, since our inception. If you could put a quota on Soviets in the 1900s, for example, you can totally put a quota on populations with such a proven risk as this.


We're supposed to take in 10000 refugees by the end of the summer, with no idea how to ensure that they're not our enemies. If just one tenth of one hundredth of them are, that's ten monsters like this guy who did what he did last night. And he's proven that you don't need guns to kill almost a hundred people. I have great compassion for the hardships of these people but a responsible government can't let in such a security risk.


Edit for another perspective. When disease strikes a region we immediately double check our immigration from that area. Would we have taken in 10000 refugees from Western Africa during the Ebola crisis? Will we take ten thousand, potentially Zika-infected Brazillians now? No, we wouldn't. Not until we could make sure they're all vaccinated or immune to the disease going through their regions. And that's not racist, that's not unconstitutional, that's smart.

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