Trump’s Muslim ban violates US constitution: Pundit

President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order to prevent Muslims’ entry into the United States has caused great shock and anger among people both in America and across the world, Muslim nations in particular. While thousands of Americans have rallied across the United States to show their resentment of the new directive, authorities in several countries have opposed such a collective punishment. We have asked two experts to give us their assessment of the president’s contentious executive order.

Jim W. Dean, managing editor of the Veterans Today from Atlanta, said that the entry ban imposed on nationals from Muslim countries is in clear violation of the US Constitution.

He noted that what President Trump did is technically an impeachable offense, particularly for the green card holders, because it violates the constitution.  

Trump is basically seeking to lay down the groundwork for the US president to take away people’s constitutional rights under the pretext of national security reasons, he analyzed.

Dean described the new US president as “stupid” and said that he does not know the right way to govern America, and by adopting imprudent policies, he is in fact putting both his own country and the rest of the world in danger.

The commentator warned that Trump’s immigration policy “is going to kill more Americans,” because terrorists could now disguise themselves as freedom fighters and pretend that they are defending Muslims.

According to Dean, the new president’s executive order has not been thoroughly “thought out” and has therefore created a lot of chaos and confusion, for example by preventing the return of American nationals in Iraq as a result of the ban on the terror-stricken country.

Dean also criticized the new administration’s hasty decision-making, saying it has failed to even coordinate such an “idiotic” act with the Department of Homeland Security and other administrative organizations.

He predicted that the Muslim ban would deal a huge blow to the Trump administration, by showing that the president was clueless as to the repercussions of his decision.

Meanwhile, Brent Budowsky, a columnist with The Hill, opposed “what Trump did on the immigration and refugees,” adding that most Democrats and many Republicans have also disagreed with the new president’s policy.

Budowsky noted that Trump’s inner circle in the White House pushed for the Muslim entry ban, without consulting with the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon, triggering nationwide protests.

He predicted that Trump’s continuation of his controversial polices will cause “more reasonable, dissent and sane Americans to rise up” against him.

“The White House does not know what it is doing. They did not consult the people who do know what they are doing,” Budowsky noted, adding, “Trump has a solid support of about 38 to 40 percent of the American people and the rest don’t support him and don’t agree” with his polices.  

“If he (Trump) keeps acting this way, he is going to get America, but even more the Republican Party and his presidency, into very big trouble,” the analyst cautioned.

Such harsh policies to build border walls and prevent the entry of Muslims will “divide the country even more. It’s going to divide the Republican Party as well because many Republicans don’t like this,” he stated.

Pointing to the international response to Trump’s executive order, he noted that even US allies are lining up against this policy one after another.

The new executive order has given rise to questions as to why Trump has refused to include certain Muslim countries wherein he has business interests and which have been involved in terrorist attacks in the United States, the analyst exclaimed, adding, “Trump businesses do business in many Muslim countries and none of them were included in this [ban].

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