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>Do you think Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric is aligned with American values?

The first duty of a country is to preserve itself. As Thomas Jefferson wrote:

>A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.

>Thomas Jefferson

As Justice Robert Jackson wrote in 1949:

>The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

>Justice Robert Jackson (1949)

If certain foreign aliens have expressed hatred for America, hatred for American values, and wish to attack American, it is the President's duty to exclude these aliens. Hence the concept of "extreme vetting," to exclude aliens who would attack us.

This is fully consistent with the law and the Constitution. The courts have exceeded their jurisdiction in blocking it. The following Supreme Court cases support the President's authority to do this:

>". . . an alien who seeks admission to this country may not do so under any claim of right. Admission of aliens to the United States is a privilege granted by the sovereign United States Government.. . . The exclusion of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty. The right to do so stems not alone from legislative power, but is inherent in the executive power to control the foreign affairs of the nation." (ref. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, 338 U.S. 537 (1950))


>"The courts have recognized that the President possesses independent authority over immigration which implicates international relations." (ref. Encuentro del Canto Popular v. Christopher (1996))


>"This Court is not a censor of the morals of other departments of the government; it is not invested with any authority to pass judgment upon the motives of their conduct. When once it is established that Congress possesses the power to pass an act, our province ends with its construction and its application to cases as they are presented for determination. Congress has the power under the Constitution to declare war, and in two instances where the power has been exercised -- in the war of 1812 against Great Britain and in 1846 against Mexico -- the propriety and wisdom and justice of its action were vehemently assailed by some of the ablest and best men in the country, but no one doubted the legality of the proceeding, and any imputation by this or any other court of the United States upon the motives of the members of Congress who in either case voted for the declaration would have been justly the cause of animadversion. We do not mean to intimate that the moral aspects of legislative acts may not be proper subjects of consideration. Undoubtedly they may be at proper times and places, before the public, in the halls of Congress, and in all the modes by which the public mind can be influenced. Public opinion thus enlightened, brought to bear upon legislation, will do more than all other causes to prevent abuses; but the province of the courts is to pass upon the validity of laws, not to make them, and when their validity is established, to declare their meaning and apply their provisions. All else lies beyond their domain." (ref. Chae Chan Ping v. United States (1889))



Additional References:

Case closed: Courts lack jurisdiction over Trump’s immigration EO

Rogue judges undermine our sovereignty | Congress can take action

Executive Authority to Exclude Aliens: In Brief

Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America

Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency (Inalienable Rights)

Essential reading on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Sovereignty-Unelected-Transforming-America/dp/1944229299