Klamath Falls, OR-- Trump’s Immigration Order Tests Limits of Law and Executive Power. It is one thing when a president issues an Executive Order by doing so with the power of the office. But when a president excides his power and not only upsets Americans, but upsets the world. Something is wrong with this president and he needs to stopped in his tracks by overreaching in areas he has no authority to do so.
Former vice president Dick Cheney was one of many who condemned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.
“I think this whole notion that somehow we can just say no more Muslims, just ban a whole religion, goes against everything we stand for and believe in,” Cheney told Hugh Hewitt on Hewitt’s conservative radio show Monday. “I mean, religious freedom has been a very important part of our history and where we came from. A lot of people, my ancestors got here, because they were Puritans.” He added: “There wasn’t anybody here then when they came,” leaving him open to criticism for dismissing the existence of Native Americans.
Experts: Trump’s Muslim entry ban idea ‘ridiculous,’ ‘unconstitutional’. Donald Trump’s proposal to bar all Muslims from entering the United States violates U.S. and international law and would never be allowed by the courts, legal scholars said late Monday.
U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the following statement today on the President’s executive order on immigration:
“Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.
“It is clear from the confusion at our airports across the nation that President Trump’s executive order was not properly vetted. We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security.
“Such a hasty process risks harmful results. We should not stop green-card holders from returning to the country they call home. We should not stop those who have served as interpreters for our military and diplomats from seeking refuge in the country they risked their lives to help. And we should not turn our backs on those refugees who have been shown through extensive vetting to pose no demonstrable threat to our nation, and who have suffered unspeakable horrors, most of them women and children.
“Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. At this very moment, American troops are fighting side-by-side with our Iraqi partners to defeat ISIL. But this executive order bans Iraqi pilots from coming to military bases in Arizona to fight our common enemies. Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred. This executive order sends a signal, intended or not, that America does not want Muslims coming into our country. That is why we fear this executive order may do more to help terrorist recruitment than improve our security.”
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was openly critical of United States President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban following his team's 113-111 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday.
"As someone whose family member is a victim of terrorism, having lost my father [Malcolm Kerr, a university professor, was murdered in 1984 in Beirut]—if we're trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, we're really going against the principles of what this country is about and creating fear," Kerr said.
He continued: "It's the wrong way to go about it. If anything, we could be breeding anger and terror, and so I'm completely against what's happening. I think it's shocking. I think it's a horrible idea, and I feel for all the people who are affected—families are being torn apart.
"And I worry in the big picture what this means to the security of the world. It's going about it completely opposite. You want to solve terror, you want to solve crime. It's not the way to do it."
By James Garland of Tulelake News
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