U.S. Supreme Court,
Immigration,
Government
Mar. 7, 2018
Trump can’t just overturn half a century of policy with order
More than 50 years ago, Congress firmly rejected the notion that putting America “first” means excluding “persons of different cultures.”
On Oct. 3, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill that abolished discrimination from our immigration laws. Commemorating the occasion on Liberty Island, at the foot of the statue that welcomes huddled masses yearning to breathe free, LBJ also spoke of U.S. soldiers huddled in the jungles of Vietnam, breathing their last. "Men there are dying," he said, "men named Fernandez and Zajac and Zelinko and Mariano and McCormick. Neither the enemy who killed them no...
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