12-09-2015, 05:04 PM
(12-09-2015, 10:28 AM)Psychospacecow Wrote: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-tr...d=35645113
So, Trump wants to ban Muslims.
I'm not condoning the ban of Muslims at this point, but hear me out.
There have been previous times, none extremely recent, where the president has banned certain groups from entering the United States. The Alien and Sedition Acts, implemented by John Adams in 1798, allowed the president to ban immigration of certain groups, during war time or not. Eventually, these were obviously repealed. The Chinese Exclusion Laws did had a similar goal. They banned Chinese workers from entering the United States. Generally, the one considered the most controversial of all of these is the Immigration Act of 1917, which banned immigration by many different groups, including homosexuals, "idiots","feeble-minded persons", criminals, and epileptics, to name a few. It also banned illiterate immigrants over the age of sixteen, and banned many areas of Asia, which is why it is also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act.
Despite what may have been insinuated with my aforementioned statement, if we officially declare war against ISIS/ISIL (which Obama recently addressed), then I would find it acceptable.