Vetting Would Keep Shariah Supremacists Out of US

Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to protect the American people from what he called “radical Islamic terrorism” by instituting "extreme vetting" for would-be immigrants and refugees. As president, he sought an opportunity to conduct such vetting by pausing further influxes from a number of problematic countries.

Although his initiative has been buffeted via adverse rulings by a succession of federal judges, the Supreme Court has basically upheld the president’s authority to impose such restrictions. Now, in a National Security Presidential Memorandum unveiled yesterday, Mr. Trump established a new bureaucratic mechanism for doing this vetting.

Unfortunately, his mechanism may prove wholly inadequate in protecting the public from such foreign threats unless it adopts a sound basis for screening out jihadists. An amicus brief we filed with the Supreme Court last year recommends the needed approach: accept no more Shariah supremacists. We have plenty already.

Frank Gaffney, Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a columnist for The Washington Times, and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio. Read more reports from Frank Gaffney, Jr. — Click Here Now.