Forsyth Senator Defends Trump's Muslim Immigration Ban

CUMMING, GA -- Forsyth County’s state senator has issued a statement which defends Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to put a temporary halt on accepting Muslim immigrants, citing national security concerns.

Sen. Michael Williams, who is Trump’s Georgia co-chair, says that the United States should bar Muslims from entering the country until the federal government can establish more thorough vetting of such immigrants.

“This is not a call to end all future Muslim immigration,” Williams says. “This is a call for strict immigration enforcement during a time of war to protect the people of America.”

The senator believes the move would protect Americans by keeping potential terrorists and other radicalized Muslims from entering the country, citing the failure of Homeland Security to check the background of “the murderous female terrorist behind the San Bernardino attack,” claiming the government failed to notice false information on her application.

Williams cites Pew Research data which claims seven percent of American Muslims believe suicide attacks are “sometimes” justified and notes polling which shows high levels of support for ISIS in Pakistan and a 20 percent approval rating in Nigeria.

“How can we possibly screen immigrants from a nation where the vast majority support terrorist groups?,” Williams says. “These numbers should be frightening to anyone. We cannot put our nation at further risk to appease the politically correct.”

Williams counters arguments that the immigration moratorium would be unconstitutional by saying that constitutional protections only apply to “citizens of the United States, not foreign nations.”