OPINION:
President Donald Trump’s administration petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its temporary ban on travelers from six terror hot spots — terror hot spots that happen to be populated mostly by Muslims.
It’s sanity time, folks.
Cross fingers and say prayers. This is the last best chance Team Trump has for winning what’s already granted in the Constitution — the federal authority to protect America’s borders.
The fact this executive order of Trump’s has to go this far is such a slap in the face of law and order, the constitutional system and, let’s just face it, common-sense governance. How is it Trump’s fault that terrorists are followers of Islam — that the people who want most to harm the citizens of the United States hail from mostly Muslim countries?
The order simply puts a temporary ban on those from Yemen, Libya, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Somalia from coming to the country. The leftists in the media and Muslim apologists’ circle may paint the citizens of those nations as victims of war and strife, and no doubt some are. But the citizens of those nations are also — gasp — Islamic terrorists. And these Islamic terrorists think nothing of using border breaches to enter countries and commit their acts of terror. Witness Germany, for instance, or France, where terror attacks have indeed recently ripped.
Is Trump supposed to ignore the real risks, throw caution to the wind and simply cave to those who aren’t so much concerned with the true plights of the war-torn, but rather with their own open border agendas?
Courts have been using Trump’s campaign rhetoric to blast his order as Islamophobic. These courts — these judges — are little more than leftist activists.
They ought to be ashamed of their failures to uphold their oaths of office. They want to read into the hearts of men, not into the texts in front of them.
Let’s hope the Supreme Court returns a semblance of sanity to the immigration debate. Let’s hope the justices come together with a majority decision that says: The federal government, as the Constitution states, does indeed have the power to control borders.
The Trump travel ban, eviscerated by the left, is nonetheless rooted not only in law. But it’s also rooted in common sense — something that’s been far lacking in the line of judges who’ve determined it discriminatory and offensive, based only on the statements of a presidential candidate.
As Trump’s legal team wrote in its brief to the court: “The court [of appeals] did not dispute that the president acted at the height of his powers in instituting [the order’s] temporary pause on entry by nationals from certain countries that sponsor or shelter terrorism.”
In other words: The previous court has already acknowledged Trump has the right to protect borders. Anything else — any other conclusion or determination based on statements made months ago — is simply judicial activism.
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