The various activist judicial efforts to interfere with President Trump's common sense efforts to reform immigration and keep us safe have been absurd and illegal. But the Obama judge's move in Hawaii takes the cake and then takes the cake from the bakeries down the block. Judge Derrick Watson's rationale is sillier than can be imagined or believed.
Never mind the three page section in his ruling that can be condensed to, "I hate Trump". No it's the justification that's genuinely hilarious.
Even sillier is the claim that our national security has to be endangered because the University of Hawaii "recruits from the six affected countries. It currently has twenty-three graduate students, several permanent faculty members, and twenty-nine visiting faculty members from the six countries listed."
"The State points to preliminary data from the Hawaii Tourism Authority, which suggests that during the interval of time that the first Executive Order was in place, the number of visitors to Hawai‘i from the Middle East dropped (data including visitors from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen). See Suppl. Decl. of George Szigeti, (identifying 278 visitors in January 2017, compared to 348 visitors from that same region in January 2016)"
That's a drop of 70 tourists. It might have something to do with Syria and Yemen and Iraq being on fire and the people there having less free time to visit that mansion where they filmed Magnum PI.
But think of the effect that requiring visas and passports has on tourism to Hawaii and enrollment to the University of Hawaii. Judge Derrick Watson must immediately preserve Hawaii's economic tourism engine by abolishing all immigration and travel restrictions.
Anything else would be inconsistent.
Only when 1 million Iraqis can visit Hawaii while waving ISIS flags and applying to the University of Hawaii to study mechanical engineering and macrame will justice be done.