Secretary of State Marco Rubio is abusing a provision of an old law to detain and try to deport people that the Trump administration doesn’t like. It’s wrong and it’s likely unconstitutional.

Passed by a Republican Congress over the veto of Harry Truman, the Red Scare-era Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 says: “An alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable.”

The targets back then were suspected Communists. Now they are anyone that the White House doesn’t want here.

We note that the law also says that “An alien shall not be excludable or subject to restrictions or conditions on entry into the United States because of the alien’s past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations,........

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