{"id":23294,"date":"2020-07-30T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23294"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:56:42","slug":"no-ban-act-danger-national-security-reasons-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/07\/30\/no-ban-act-danger-national-security-reasons-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Reasons Why The NO BAN Act Endangers National Security, Public Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>House Democrats <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/22\/21332511\/no-ban-act-travel-ban-bill-trump\" target=\"_blank\">recently passed<\/a> a bill, known as The No Ban Act, that would strip any president of the ability to suspend travel to the U.S. from certain countries that pose a threat to the U.S. Passed by a party-line vote of 233-183, the bill, if it became law, would threaten both public safety and national security.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are three reasons why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Global Pandemics<\/strong>: Under current law, which has been on the books for decades, the president can ban the entry of \u201c<em>any aliens or any class of aliens into the United States who would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.\u201d <\/em>In terms of the current COVID-19 pandemic, this discretionary authority allowed the president to quickly ban entry of aliens from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-certain-additional-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19 hotspots<\/a> like China and Europe, safeguarding the public health of Americans.<\/li><li><strong>Ongoing Threats of Terrorism<\/strong>: When threats of terrorism are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/presidential-proclamation-enhancing-vetting-capabilities-processes-detecting-attempted-entry-united-states-terrorists-public-safety-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a>, the president can quickly act to restrict travel to the U.S. from nations where proper vetting of would-be immigrants and visitors is impossible, or from nations known to harbor dangerous terrorists. <\/li><li><strong>Fast, Decisive Action<\/strong>:\u00a0 The executive branch of government is the only branch capable of making fast, targeted decisions once threats emerge. This ability has been used by presidents for the last three decades, including in 1980 when President Carter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2017\/01\/times-banned-immigrants-170128183528941.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">barred<\/a> the admission of Iranians during the hostage crisis. Imagine how long it would take to get anything of this nature past Congress. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The ability of the chief executive to ban entry of certain nationals\u00a0 had its day in court and won. When President Trump first invoked section 212(f) to ban travel from countries known to harbor terrorists early in his administration, the move was immediately challenged in the courts. Ultimately, the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/17pdf\/17-965_h315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">ruled in his favor<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This important authority should not be stripped from the president because it has proven not only to be constitutional, but \u00a0also has the potential to save American lives.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats recently passed a bill, known as The No Ban Act, that would strip any president of the ability to suspend travel to the U.S. from certain countries that pose a threat to the U.S. Passed by a party-line vote of 233-183, the bill, if it became law, would threaten both public safety and<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/07\/30\/no-ban-act-danger-national-security-reasons-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":14852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7608],"tags":[1524,9466,219,1587],"yst_prominent_words":[2996,2019,3011,8222,9465,2464,3006,8011,3557,2777,9461,1942,1945,9462,9464,4039,9460,1939,1977,1933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23295,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions\/23295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23294"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}