Limiting Immigration following Sept. 11

America has always defined itself as a great melting pot of differing cultures, however, when the safety or the well being of current citizens is in danger the government is forced to step in and regulate who enters the US. On September eleventh a great travesty occured, and some of the assasins and others plotting against America were immigrants who betrayed the American ideals. It is necessary that America now close its doors to immigrants from the Middle East. In doing so America would not be violating any constitutional rights, instead it would be encouraging exactly what the constitution was designed for, the protection of America and its citizens. The preamble of the US Constitution states "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union...provide for the common defense..." Right now America needs to be defended against possible terroristic acitivies, and because of the elastic clause which allows for congress to do anything that is necessary and proper...