One problem is ALL men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.....citizen or not.
That foundational belief could be our undoing. We have to argue that those not adhering to Judeo Christian, Scotish Enilightenment and Reformation beliefs are NOT welcome here.
In the 20’s, we pretty much stopped non protestant West European immigration cold. Catholics, Slavs, Meds, Asians, Blacks were stopped or tightly limited at the gates.
Whoops. We stopped or sharply curtailed all BUT protestant West Euros at the gates...
More tired than I thought.