Dean Johnson Comments on Trump Immigration Plan for Vox.com

Dean Kevin R. Johnson commented for the news website Vox on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's revised plan to curtail Muslim immigration. Trump, who had called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," recently proposed a ban on immigration from "areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe, or our allies."

The shift may represent a realization that an immigration ban based on religion might prove unconstitutional, forcing the courts to reconsider the deference traditionally shown to the executive and legislative branches in matters of immigration law, Dean Johnson said. 

"If President Trump were to issue some kind of broad exclusion of all Muslims, for example," Dean Johnson said, "I think that's the kind of order or policy that would attract attention of the courts and would create a vehicle for reconsideration and possible overruling of the plenary power doctrine."

Kevin R. Johnson is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o studies at UC Davis School of Law. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.

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