The items we embed herein, as much for dramatic effect of “going to the source and displaying it” are pretty definitive in our humble judgement as to immigration law . The first is especially timely providing the full Monty as regards Trump’s lawful exercise of presidential power in suspending entry visa’s for certain countries pending security reviews. The reviews subsequent to his order have been timely in all obvious cases.
The embeds are from the seminal statute as regards immigration law, the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act. The act is also known as the McCarran-Walter act, two Democrats, by the way. The part of particular current note is the plenary power granted the president to suspend admissions to this country. It is just as we have seen repeated in conservative outlets. Liberal outlets tend to criticize Trump as if he were operating outside the law without citing the actual relevant law.
Current citations of the law as amended indicate the presidential powers part has not changed: https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-2006/0-0-0-2364.html [see at paragraph (f)}
By the way, McCarran is the same guy the Las Vegas airport is named after. The act was so popular it passed over Truman’s veto. A Wikipedia post set forth McCarran’s response to Truman’s bleeding heart veto of the extensive legislation. We bet Truman did not object to the codification of powers given the president per se, given his practice of exercising executive power during his, presidency.
Speaking in the Senate on March 2, 1953, McCarran said:[4]
I believe that this nation is the last hope of Western civilization and if this oasis of the world shall be overrun, perverted, contaminated or destroyed, then the last flickering light of humanity will be extinguished. I take no issue with those who would praise the contributions which have been made to our society by people of many races, of varied creeds and colors. … However, we have in the United States today hard-core, indigestible blocs which have not become integrated into the American way of life, but which, on the contrary are its deadly enemies. Today, as never before, untold millions are storming our gates for admission and those gates are cracking under the strain. The solution of the problems of Europe and Asia will not come through a transplanting of those problems en masse to the United States. … I do not intend to become prophetic, but if the enemies of this legislation succeed in riddling it to pieces, or in amending it beyond recognition, they will have contributed more to promote this nation’s downfall than any other group since we achieved our independence as a nation.
I skipped around the lengthy McCarran Act legislation and also found a clear provision that applies to Ted Cruz as being a citizen at birth. There is some irony present given Trump’s mishmash of that phony issue. The relevant Cruz language is at (7), a subset of the chapters purpose identified in the first line at (a).
