The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Funny thing: Trump’s hot new immigration ban is illegal. It’s kind of odd that no one managed to tell him that before he announced it.
The Times explains how it’s against the law:
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that purports to bar for at least 90 days almost all permanent immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Syria and Iraq, and asserts the power to extend the ban indefinitely.
But the order is illegal. More than 50 years ago, Congress outlawed such discrimination against immigrants based on national origin.
That decision came after a long and shameful history in this country of barring immigrants based on where they came from. Starting in the late 19th century, laws excluded all Chinese, almost all Japanese, then all Asians in the so-called Asiatic Barred Zone. Finally, in 1924, Congress created a comprehensive “national-origins system,” skewing immigration quotas to benefit Western Europeans and to exclude most Eastern Europeans, almost all Asians, and Africans.
Mr. Trump appears to want to reinstate a new type of Asiatic Barred Zone by executive order, but there is just one problem: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 banned all discrimination against immigrants on the basis of national origin, replacing the old prejudicial system and giving each country an equal shot at the quotas. In signing the new law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said that “the harsh injustice” of the national-origins quota system had been “abolished.”
I guess laws are just for the little people? Trump doesn’t have to obey them if he doesn’t feel like it? And twenty billion people celebrated his inauguration?
Only 20B? Small think is for little looosers. Big think is for bigly ones.
Yeah, it’s why white supremacists are so butthurt about that year…
A few minutes ago I read that a representative was trying to get the airport security to allow detainees to get access to legal representation, although they have been blocking lawyers on the grounds that, until they are admitted to the US, the detainees aren’t entitled to see them.
Yes they are all limbo bimbos.
America is now an island. An isolated Isola island. Very very plusgood for American economy and job security.
Trust is a very precious thing. Much like life, once harmed it may actually never recover.
How can I move my overseas assets from US to RUS?
Anyway, it has been nice to know y’all. Bye now, and thanks for all the fish*
* HHGTTU reference
Those refugees detained when they got off the plane in NY and SF and wherever better get set free pronto, their lawyers are standing by.
Jesus he is a malignant butt wipe.
#5 Claire: Agree on your last point, but I shall say no more. It has been kneaded on more paranoid sites.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1426335260718264/?type=3&theater
You’d think that Trump would have the decency to refrain from such drastic and fascistic measures.
He’s barely a week into his 4-year mandate, so like what’s his rush?
It’s not as though America, unlike France, needs to place concrete bollards and heavily armed paratroopers in front of every last Jewish community centre and synagogue.
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Paratroopers are soldiers who jump out of airplanes, you racist fucknuckle.