polarization in this administration. there will be dissent, and there will be resignations as well. john, you re an expert on the u.s. supreme court, about 2 1/2 hours or so from now we re going to learn who president trump wants to be the next united states supreme court justice. how is all of this controversy that we ve seen over the past couple days going to spill over in the questioning of whomever is nominated? i think it will spill over and it will spill over right away. as soon as president trump nominates someone, that individual will be brought up to capitol hill for what s called courtesy visits. and usually the senators start testing the waters on issues. i cannot imagine that they won t start asking about this order. and in two ways, first of all, whether it potentially violated any kind of statutory rule with the immigration and naturalization act, and whether there are constitutional issues here. perhaps violations of due process, violations of religious rights. so, i
action in 2012 and then attempted to again in 2014. so the president does have some discretion. yet, overall, immigration policy is decided by congress. the president is really only authorized to move it forward in very inkrecremental ways. the big problem with trump s order as i read through it, first of all, there s a problem on the first amendment grounds. while it bars refugees from these muslim majority countries, it carves out exceptions for christian refugees. under the first amendment, the government is not allowed to prioritize one religion over another. we also see you can also look at this act as being in violation of existing law. in the 1965 immigration and naturalization act, it specifically forbids any discrimination on the grounds of national origin, which is what trump is doing here with these seven nations. and then looking around the country on a more practical standpoint, because this was rolled out so quickly and i
[ speaking spanish ] the ad appealing to hispanic-americans reflects the political power of this changing electorate. think about this. in 1970, less than 1 in 20 people living in the united states were foreign born. today, that number is one in eight. this second great wave of immigration started 50 years ago next month when president johnson signed the 1965 immigration and naturalization act. and for all the focus now coming on those from mexico and often political focus, there s a new book, a nation of nations where author tom jelten paints a diverse and complicated portrait of what s happening in america. hi, tom. thanks for joining us. hi, ari. good to be here. let me start with the basic point that you explore which is that lbj s tenure is remembered for many things. and on the domestic side, the civil rights, voting rights, economic empowerment agenda.
whatever you may think of barack obama, he didn t kill 6 million jews, didn t start a war that killed 67 million persons. only someone who s clueless morally and historically would do that. well, you re referencing a record of statements and positions as you say. ben carson getting a close-up but not the attacks that go into the record of anyone in the front-runner-ship sometimes get that scrutiny understand part of the record you re references there. professor, thank you as always. any time. straight ahead, hot topic coming up tonight, we can bet on that. immigration. donald trump talks a lot about hispanic immigrants but we have an author here, a next guest with context saying when s going on is more complicated and more global. you re going to want to hear this. to clean the oceans, to start a movement, or lead a country. it may not be obvious yet,
residents of fairfax county were born outside the united states. in 1960, it was like 0.1%. so you ve had this huge influx of people from all over and not just hispanics or asians but people from all over the world who have had to learn to live together in the power structure in fairfax county has had to adjust to them. it s really been an interesting it was for me a really interesting case study of how immigration has changed america and how our institutions have had to deal with that. and how do people who come to this country self-identify in that way? what did you find in that? because we ve been in this election season where there s been talk about the demagoguing but not every immigrant family, from wherever they may be from, wants to fixate even on that part of their identity. a lot of people want to be naturalized, become american citizens and move forward. if you want to be like everybody else, you re not going to be like everybody else.