Top Trump administration officials are drafting plans to restrict both temporary visits and legal immigration by Muslims affiliated with the revolutionary Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups.
“We are taking a new look at sections within the INA [Immigration and Nationality Act] that have never been used before to really get a better sense of who these applicants are, and then we’ll be able to assess” what can be done to exclude militant Muslims, said Joe Edlow, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
“We’ve got to make sure that [would-be immigrants] do not espouse ideology that is incredibly detrimental to the safety and security of this country,” he told Breitbart News on Monday.
Officials are preparing to apply the terrorist label to some Islamic groups linked to the sprawling Muslim Brotherhood movement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told radio host Sid Rosenberg on Tuesday. “All of that is in the works — obviously, there are different branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so you’d have to designate each one of them.”
The Muslim Brotherhood emerged after the collapse of the Turkish Empire in World War I. Its goal is to ensure that a pious dictator, dubbed the Caliph, enforces totalitarian Islamic law on populations wherever Muslims live.
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Both Rubio and Edlow warned that officials must protect Americans’ legal rights as they try to constrain the Brotherhood’s revolutionary political movement.
“These things are going to be challenged in court,” Rubio told Rosenberg:
Any group can say, ‘Well, I’m not really a terrorist, that organization is not a terrorist organization… You have to show your work like a math problem when you go before court. All you need is one federal judge — and there are plenty — that are willing to do these nationwide injunctions and basically try to run the country from the bench. {snip}
Rubio’s deputies are already facing lawsuits as they try to deny legal entry to migrant visitors who support attacks on Israel.
“‘I’m not going to give you a date,” Edlow told Breitbart News, adding:
It’s going to take some time… You will see the AILA [America Immigration Lawyers Association] crowd getting a little uncomfortable in a couple weeks when it’s not a sure-fire thing that people are going to walk in and walk out with a naturalization approval the same day.
U.S. immigration law includes multiple historical layers of political tests for screening would-be legal migrants, including communists and Nazi guards at concentration camps. “In general, any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible,” according to the USCIS.
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