The NRO on closing the door to Muslims

Some interesting points about the legalities involved.

It’s Time for a Grown-Up Alternative to Trump’s Crude Muslim-Immigration Proposal

First of all, it’s important to underline that Congress can exclude or admit any foreigner it wants, for any reason or no reason. 

Non-Americans have no constitutional right to travel to the United States and no constitutional due-process rights to challenge exclusion; as the Supreme Court has written multiple times, “Whatever the procedure authorized by Congress is, it is due process as far as an alien denied entry is concerned.” 

What’s more, while the president doesn’t have the authority that Obama has claimed, to let in anyone he wants for any reason (under the guise of “parole”), he does have the statutory authority to keep anyone out, for any reason he thinks best.

And some data, too.

Under current trends, the United States will admit about 1 million new Muslim-origin immigrants over the next decade, plus hundreds of thousands of Muslim guest workers and foreign students. 

In addition, something like 50,000 young people from Muslim immigrant families turn 18 in the United States each year. 

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But large Muslim populations, continually refreshed by ongoing mass immigration, are a problem. 

Polling suggests between a quarter and a third are not attached to the principles of the Constitution, supporting things such as sharia law over U.S. law and the use of violence against those who insult Islam. 

Nor is this merely hypothetical; Muslims account for only about 1 percent of the U.S. population but account for about half of terrorist attacks since 9/11. 

That means Muslims in the United States are about 5,000 percent more likely to commit terrorist attacks than non-Muslims.

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There’s really no way around it: Continuing to admit 1 million Muslim immigrants per decade will translate into more attacks. 

We need to cut Muslim immigration.