"Or: Muslims are a threat and should be kept out of the country …"

The Founding Fathers did not want America to be overrun by non-whites no matter how good it feels to believe they did. Thought police: this is well-documented historical fact. Invoking their names and using their words for an agenda they never would've supported is completely dishonest.

“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
...Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible line of distinction between them.” - Thomas Jefferson