In addition, the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that the constitutional protections of “due process” do not apply to non-citizens seeking entry to the United States in the first instance.
These little known aspects of the reach of the U.S. Constitution are based on the fact that immigration policy implicates foreign relations and national security. Indeed, the Immigration and Nationality Act gives a president the power to bar the entry of “any class of aliens” if he finds that such entry would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
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Limiting terrorist access to our shores is at least as important as any other issue we face. As such, we cannot allow it to be distorted.
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