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发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: 13州AG支持trump travel ban
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Mar 27 16:30:00 2017, 美东)
A coalition of 13 states has filed a brief with a federal appeals court
defending President Trump’s temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-
majority nations, according to a new report.
The group’s filing argues Trump’s executive order regarding immigration
and refugees is a legal action within his presidential powers, the Dallas
Morning News said Monday.
“Congress delegated to the Executive Branch significant authority to
prohibit aliens’ entry into the country, and the challenged Executive Order
is a lawful exercise of that authority,” the brief filed Monday in the 4th
Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. reads.
“Nonresident aliens who are in foreign territory clearly not under the
sovereign control of the United States do not possess rights under the
United States Constitution regarding entry into this country,” it adds.
“The Executive Order is not a pretext for religious discrimination, as the
Order is grounded in national-security concerns and classifies aliens
according to nationality – not religion.”
The filing includes the attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Texas and West Virginia and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R).
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals last week announced it had scheduled a May
8 hearing for the government’s appeal of a lower court’s order blocking
Trump’s travel ban.
District judges in Hawaii and Maryland issued separate orders earlier this
month blocking Trump’s order hours before it would have taken effect.
Trump decided to appeal Maryland’s order so his administration’s appeal
will happen in the 4th Circuit Court covering the state.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Hawaii,
refused to reinstate the first version of Trump’s travel ban when it was
blocked by a district court judge in Washington last month.
Trump’s revised order places a 90-day freeze on visitors from Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and no longer impacts Iraq like the original
edition.
The revised measure also freezes all general refugee admissions into the U.S
. for 120 days but no longer features preferential language for religious
minorities once the refugee program resumes.
Critics say both versions of Trump’s executive order are unconstitutional
and biased against Muslims, while the president counters they protect
national security from radical Islamic terrorism. |
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