Seems there are misrepresentations of the travel ban and the law behind it.

[U.S. Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part II, § 1182, Paragraph (f)]
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by the President




Full Speech:
https:// youtube.com/watch?v=502Eujo1P94

US Code:
https:// law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182




Here is what was said:

“You could be a lawyer, or you don’t have to be a lawyer. If you were a good 
student in high school or a bad student in high school, you can understand 
this, and it’s really incredible to me that we have a court case that’s going 
on so long.

As you know in Boston, we won it with a highly respected judge, and a very 
strong opinion but now we're in an area that, let's just say, they are 
interpreting things differently than probably a hundred percent of the people 
in this room. I'd like to almost know, does anybody in this room disagree when 
I read this?

I'm gonna read what's in dispute, what's in question. And you'll see this, it's:

[U.S. Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part II, § 1182, Paragraph (f)]
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by the President

Okay, now, this isn't just me, this is for Obama, for Ronald Regan, for, the 
Peresident, and this was, done, very importantly, for security. Something you 
people know more about than all of us. It was done for the security of our 
nation. The security of our citizens. So that people come in who aren't going 
to do us harm. And that's why it was done. And it couldn't of been written any 
more precicely, it's not like "Oh, gee, we wish it were written better". It was 
written beautifully.

So just listen, here's what it says, this is what they're arguing:

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of 
aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the 
United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem 
necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants 
or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem 
to be appropriate.

Okay, so you can suspend, you can put restrictions, you can do whatever you 
want. And this is for the security of the country, which, again, you're the 
chiefs, you're the sheriffs, you understand this. And, I listened to lawyers on 
both sides last night and they were talking about things that had just nothing 
to do with it. I listened to a panel of judges and I'll comment on that but I 
will not comment on the statements made by, certainly one judge, but I have to 
be honest, that if these judges wanted to, in my opinion, help the court, in 
terms of respect for the court, they'd do what they should be doing.

I mean, it's so sad, they should be, you know when you read something so 
simple, and so beautifully written, so perfectly written, other than the one 
statement of course, having to do with 'he' or 'she', but when you read 
something so perfectly written and so clear, to anybody, and then you have 
lawyers and you watch, I watched last night, in amazement, and I heard things 
that I couldn't believe, things that really had nothing to do with what I just 
read, and I don't ever want to call a court biased, so I wont call it biased, 
and we haven't had a decision yet, but courts seem to be so political, and it 
would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a 
statement and do what's right. And that has to do with the security of our 
country, which is so important."

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