Trump’s facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama’s in 2011 | |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 59251427 United States 01/30/2017 06:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Also, why is that ALL citizens are banned including green card holders residents?? "Third, Obama’s policy did not prevent all citizens of that country, including green-card holders, from traveling to the United States. Trump’s policy is much more sweeping, though officials have appeared to pull back from barring permanent U.S. residents" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35408544 United States 01/30/2017 06:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Also, why is that ALL citizens are banned including green card holders residents?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59251427 "Third, Obama’s policy did not prevent all citizens of that country, including green-card holders, from traveling to the United States. Trump’s policy is much more sweeping, though officials have appeared to pull back from barring permanent U.S. residents" Its a sweeping EO, asshole, because Americans don't want America to be the new France or Germany. Eat shit. A bitch like you isn't going to understand a thing until that civil war you want is shove up your ass sideways. You fifth column mother fucker. |
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L User ID: 73115942 Canada 01/30/2017 07:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Can someone elaborate? Why did Trump claimed Obama banned Iraqi refugees for 6 month when in fact it was completely false?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59251427 [link to www.moonofalabama.org] Exposing "librul" hyprocrisy with over-the-top Trump outrage Bernard Moon of Alabama Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:32 UTC ----------------- [link to sethfrantzman.com (secure)] Obama’s administration made the “Muslim ban” possible and the media won’t tell you January 28, 2017 · by sfrantzman · in Articles, Uncategorized. · By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I read the order and Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen are not mentioned in it. Go back and read it again. Do a “ctrl-f” to find “Iraq”. Where is “Iraq” in the order. It’s not there. Only Syria is there. So where are the seven nations? Where is the “Muslim ban”? It turns out this was a form of fake news, or alternative facts. Trump didn’t select seven “Muslim-majority” countries. US President Barack Obama’s administration selected these seven Muslim-majority countries. The Department of Homeland Security targeted these seven countries over the last years as countries of concern. In February 2016 “The Department of Homeland Security today announced that it is continuing its implementation of the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 with the addition of Libya, Somalia, and Yemen as three countries of concern, limiting Visa Waiver Program travel for certain individuals who have traveled to these countries.” It noted “the three additional countries designated today join Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria as countries subject to restrictions for Visa Waiver Program travel for certain individuals.” It was the US policy under Obama to restrict and target people “who have been present in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, at any time on or after March 1, 2011 (with limited government/military exceptions).” This was text of the US Customs and Border Protection in 2015 relating to “the Visa Waiver Program and Terrorist Travel Protection Act of 2015“. The link even includes the seven nation list in it: “Iraq, Syria, Iran, SUdan, Somalia or Yemen.” And the media knew this back in May 2016 when some civil rights groups complained about it. “These restrictions have provoked an outcry from the Iranian-American community, as well as Arab-American and civil-liberties groups, who say the restrictions on dual nationals and certain travelers are discriminatory and could be imposed against American dual nationals.” It was signed into law on December 18, 2015, as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of FY2016. What? So there was a Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 two years before Trump? There was a kind of “Muslim ban” before the Muslim ban? But almost no one critiqued it in 2015 because it was Obama’s administration overseeing it. So for more than a year it has been US policy to discriminate against, target and even begin to ban people from the seven countries that Trump is accused of banning immigrants and visitors from. CNN even hinted at this by noting “those countries were named in a 2016 law concerning immigration visas as ‘countries of concern.'” But why didn’t CNN note that the seven countries were not named and that in fact they are only on the list because of Obama’s policy? .... media should also be truthful with the public and instead of claiming Trump singled out seven countries, it should note that the US Congress and Obama’s Department of Homeland Security had singled out these countries. It should have told us about theTerrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 rather than pretend this list was invented in 2017. Trump’s executive order said “countries of concern,” it didn’t make a list. That list was already made, last year and years before. |