Neville, you obviously have no idea as to the connotation of discrimination in this context. While you are correct that immigration to the US is a privilege and not a right it may not be directed against a broad religious group and certainly not against someone who is defined s a member of that group because of his national origin even though he might not be particularly religious (and Moslems have the same range as us – there have even been complaints about asking “Sheik Google” questions about Sharia). For example, someone who has expressed support for ISIS could and should be excluded. However, to make a blanket exclusion of Moslems (and BTW, he has also made racist attacks on other groups) is reprehensible. He obviously thinks that he is right but so did anti-Semites like Gerald Burton Winrod ym”s, who said “After observing the title of this book, some will accuse me of being anti-Semitic. If by this they mean that I am opposed to the Jews as a race or as a religion, I deny the allegation. But if they mean that I am opposed to a coterie of international Jewish bankers ruling the Gentile world by the power of gold, if they mean that I am opposed to international Jewish Communism, then I plead guilty to the charge.”
The fact of the matter is that many bankers were Jewish and many Communists were Jewish. In fact, the atomic spies were all Jews. Many gangsters were also Jewish. Was the US right to exclude Jews seventy five years ago?