Trump comment on Muslims ‘endangers national security’: Kerry

“I mean that is against our constitution, it is against who we are as Americans”.

He added: “No Muslims in the United States”.

“I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people’s views on what Islam really is”, Ali said.

“I believe it’s hurting this country”, Cuomo said. And his Muslim ban, whatever one thinks of it, is on sound and legitimate footing within the US legal framework. Legal experts are divided over how the high court would react to Trump¿s call for a temporary halt to Muslims entering the United States. Last week, the White House suggested the proposal renders Trump ineligible to become president. And that Christians tend to be discriminated against even more than other groups.

“You don’t know if they like us”.

There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing US borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so.

Last year, Trump was threatening to launch a challenge against Cuomo for the governor’s seat, telling the New York Daily News after a meeting with Republicans in his office that he’d seek the state’s top spot if the GOP would give him its full support and rule out having primary elections.

“Without the ban”, he said Sunday, “you’re not going to make the point”.

Boxing champion Muhammad Ali, one of America’s most recognizable Muslims, also delivered a broadside against Trump, without mentioning the billionaire by name. Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham said he was “disgusted” by Trump’s comments and urged his party to “tell Donald Trump to go to hell”. “I think there were people who did celebrate but it’s an exaggeration, exaggeration gets attention”.

“At this point, we don’t need more Muslim enemies”, the governor continued. “I think that this sends the wrong message to people that have to be part of our partnership for a solution”.

I’m not the only writer who finds in Trump’s demagoguery a form of truth, an uncouth willingness to say straightforwardly all the things that Republican voters with their own p.c. hang-ups are thinking and feeling but not articulating in polite company.

That’s why she says Trump is “my guy”. However, a slight majority of Republicans – 54 percent – support the idea. Efforts to halt the flow of refugees risks disturbing attempts to balance “our commitment to fairness and refugee protection with our national security interests”, she said. “My polls happen to have gone up a lot since this announcement, a lot of people thought they’d go down”.

Patricia Dabkowski, a current Aiken resident who lived in New Jersey and was working as a nurse on the day of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, said that Trump’s tough talk is not disqualifying.

Trump’s proposal turns traditional ideas about the United States as a beacon for political and religious refugees upside down, said Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago.