Trump’s immigration call justified

Letter date: 
Friday, February 3, 2017
Letter publisher: 
The Register Guard
Letter author: 
James S. Levings
Letter body: 

President Donald Trump has every right to enact the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952. The act states, “Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by the president, whenever the president finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States. The president may, by proclamation, and for such a period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants or impose any restrictions on the entry of aliens he may deem to be appropriate.”

President Carter used this act to keep Iranians out of the U.S. He made all Iranian students already in the U.S. check in with the government. And then he deported a bunch of them. Seven thousand were found in violation of the visas, and a total of 15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the U.S. in 1979.

The Quran forbids Muslims to swear allegiance to the U.S. Constitution. Technically, all Muslims should be refused immigration to our country.

The act also requires that an “applicant for immigration must be of good moral character and in agreement with the principles of our Constitution.”

Donald Trump is our president, elected by the people of the United States, so live with it and stop whining.