High court right to back Trump on travel ban
Well, the Supremes brought sanity back to the table! The current travel ban is a short list of unstable countries, based on comprehensive evaluation and risk assessment by federal agencies under Presidents Obama and Trump. But political partisans in the lower court system shape-shifted it into a religious argument. Let’s hope the Supreme Court ruling gets people back to reality, on at least this issue. The court’s decision states, “The President has lawfully exercised the broad discretion granted to him under the law to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States. By its terms, the law exudes deference to the President in every clause … (vesting) the President with ample power to impose entry restrictions in addition to those elsewhere enumerated in the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act).” Presidents Bush and Obama had the same power to protect Americans from unvetted entries, but did nothing. Good luck to our current president.
L.G. EDMONDS, DECATUR
U.S. human rights stances, actions in error
Accusing it as a “cesspool of hypocrisy” and “biased against Israel,” the U.S. resigned from the UN Human Rights Council. That charge could also describe our own checkered record, such as treatment of children/families seeking asylum at our southern borders. The UN Children Rights Convention says, “a child shall not be separated from parents.” UN was critical, so we resigned. Obviously, the resignation is another payoff to billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s $85 million investment in Trump’s election.
Our UN Ambassador says the “world’s most inhuman regimes continue to escape scrutiny.” Much of the world would include Israel among those regimes — unless we consider their victims as not “human enough” to deserve rights, as Israeli leaders do. And who hates UNHRC? Apartheid regimes and dictatorships, such as our friends — Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and now North Korea.
According to Human Rights Watch, this resignation “reflects, sadly, our one-dimensional human rights policy: defending Israel from criticism takes precedence above all else.” And recent Israeli policy bars human-rights observers from occupied territories.
S.M. GHAZANFAR, ACWORTH
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