The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship. The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not.

The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.

Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States.

Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States. The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.

We now possess overwhelming evidence that political and military leaders endorsed interrogation methods that violate both domestic and international law.

The government doesn't have the authority to exclude people from the country, invited scholars, simply because it doesn't like what they have to say.