Experts say US immigration law already bars members of a Communist Party from becoming citizens or green card holders, but they say Trump might run into legal trouble if he tried to implement a blanket exclusion of all communists or Marxists.

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    Experts say US immigration law already bars members of a Communist Party from becoming citizens or green card holders

    I know immigration and border law is weird, but how is this kind of viewpoint discrimination Constitutional? Even non-citizens have Constitutional rights while they’re here.

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      Communists are not a protected class. A law banning Communists would only have to pass a rational basis test to meet Constitutional scrutiny standards.