Refugees

WHY IS THE JUDICIARY INVOLVED?

by Dr. Thomas E. Davis (Ret.), ©2017

(Feb. 11, 2017) — Why must there be a legal battle in the United States over refugees? The nations of the world established the dysfunctional, currently anti-American United  Nations on January 1, 1942, when representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.

Representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco April-June 1945 to complete the Charter of the United Nations. In addition to the General Assembly of all member states and a Security Council of 5 permanent and 6 non-permanent members, the Charter provided for an 18-member Economic and Social Council, an International Court of Justice, a Trusteeship Council to oversee certain colonial territories, and a Secretariat under a Secretary-General. The Roosevelt administration strove to avoid Woodrow Wilson’s mistakes in selling the League of Nations to the Senate. It sought bipartisan support and in September 1943 the Republican Party endorsed U.S. participation in a postwar international organization, after which both houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed participation. Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. Wrong! As FDR was so often. The Senate approved the UN Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2. The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/un

I choose not, at this point, to castigate the biased United Nations and its monumental shortcomings. I choose to concentrate on the refugee situation and its impact on the United States. President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on January 27, 2017 barring refugees from seven nations from entry into the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/trump-syrian-refugees.html?_r=0

On January 28, Federal Judge Ann Donnelly issued an order countermanding the President’s EO; and later, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard arguments on the Trump administration’s challenge to a lower court ruling putting the temporary travel ban on hold. The appeals court said it would rule as soon as possible but not on Wednesday.

Why is this necessary? First, this is OUR country, we make any and all rules and laws in respect to immigration; and secondly, the impotent United Nations has an office known as the Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR). There is an office of the UNHCR right in Washington, D.C. at 1775 K Street NW, Suite 580, Washington, DC 20006.

Just because some citizen of Somalia or Yemen or any of the nations noted in President Trump’s EO arrives at any port of entry in the USA does NOT mean that he/she meets the standards for legal entry. As a matter of fact and national security, the opinion of 100 activist judges notwithstanding, President Trump’s EO serves one purpose only: securing our nation’s borders against Muslim extremists, jihadists or Islamic terrorists or your plain and known criminal.

Despite any inconvenience to those arriving at JFK, the EO was in the best interests of American citizens and judicial interference was unwarranted. Activist, i.e., ignorant or even downright stupid jurists do not have all the answers. They are serving a different ideology and a different master. Some need a frontal lobotomy. You activist, left-tilted, socialist, incompetent members of the renegade judiciary are impediments to decent law and order, and this old patriotic Veteran is, for one, damned sick and tired of your arrogant, fatuous, inane pronouncements, particularly from the Ninth Circuit out there in La-La Land. Incidentally, does Meryl Streep serve as an advisor to the court? Disgusted in N.J.

Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Colonel, USA (Ret)