San Bernardino

Look about four posts below where you got that.

 

You can be a fascist without running death camps.

 

What in the world makes you think I'm kidding? What they did is almost a weekly occurrence. It took them a year to plan it?

 

I guess the Indy Star just made the list of newspapers in decline. Sad!

 

Both of his parents have been added to the terror watch list, according to reports:

The mother and father of San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook have been placed on a federal terrorist watch list in the wake of a mass shooting that killed 14 people, according to reports.
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The father was watch-listed because of his multiple and frequent trips to his native Pakistan. The mother was added to the list after authorities found suspicious items in a car registered to her, including shooting targets and empty GoPro helmet camera packaging, according to ABC News.

Parents of San Bernardino gunman put on terrorist watch list

Boy if that's not closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

 

The author is a professor of immigration and constitutional law at Temple University.

DONALD J. TRUMP’S reprehensible call to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the United States tracks an exam question I’ve been giving my immigration law students since Sept. 11. Would such a proposal be constitutional? The answer is not what you might think — but it also raises the issue of what, exactly, we mean when we say something is “constitutional” in the first place.

In the ordinary, non-immigration world of constitutional law, the Trump scheme would be blatantly unconstitutional, a clear violation of both equal protection and religious freedom (he had originally called for barring American Muslims living abroad from re-entering the country as well; he has since dropped that clearly unconstitutional notion). But under a line of rulings from the Supreme Court dating back more than a century, that’s irrelevant. As the court observed in its 1977 decision in Fiallo v. Bell, “In the exercise of its broad power over immigration and naturalization, Congress regularly makes rules that would be unacceptable if applied to citizens.”

The court has given the political branches the judicial equivalent of a blank check to regulate immigration as they see fit. This posture of extreme deference is known as the “plenary power” doctrine. It dates back to the 1889 decision in the Chinese Exclusion case, in which the court upheld the exclusion of Chinese laborers based on their nationality.

Unlike other bygone constitutional curiosities that offend our contemporary sensibilities, the Chinese Exclusion case has never been overturned. More recent decisions have upheld discrimination against immigrants based on gender and illegitimacy that would never have survived equal protection scrutiny in the domestic context. Likewise, courts have rejected the assertion of First Amendment free speech protections by noncitizens.

Nor has the Supreme Court ever struck down an immigration classification, even ones based on race. As late as 1965, a federal appeals court upheld a measure that counted a Brazilian citizen of Japanese descent as Asian for the purposes of immigration quotas.

In the context of noncitizens seeking initial entry into the United States, due process protections don’t apply, either.

 

Epic work by YF today, with about 100 posts (and counting)
over 15 hours (and counting) on this thread alone.

Definitely the poster boy for Keep Fucking That Chicken.

 

They killed more than four times as many people as the Boston Marathon bombers and more than Ft. Hood. They took out more people than any other terrorist act on U.S. soil I can remember since 9/11.

And your enlightened takeaway is that they should have been better with all that time to plan? It's a callous, flippant and ignorant statement.

Sick burn, bro.

 

If the IRA starts bombing London again, I hope President Trump bans Catholics from coming to America. Damn papists.

 

You think the IRA is an equivalent threat to radical Islam?

 

IF.

Of course the comparison would make more sense if Catholic immigrants to America were committing acts of terrorism here.

 

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