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Originally Posted by auralex14
Have you bothered looking at the executive order?
Have you?
Here is the full text:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/28/po...-ban-refugees/
The only country mentioned in the entire executive order is Syria, as it specifically pertains to Syrian nationals attempting to enter the US as refugees. So where does Iraq, Iran, et al. come from? Why are those countries subject to the 90 day visa suspension?
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I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for 90 days from the date of this order (excluding those foreign nationals traveling on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3, and G-4 visas).
That section of law is directed to the Visa Waiver Program, specifically to countries selected by....the Obama administration as countries being specifically targeted for restrictions due to being an area of concern:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/02/18/...waiver-program
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1187
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/internati...ention-act-faq
Can Trump change the designated countries? Nope, not without a Congressional change in the law. So all of the talk about Trump selecting those countries because of business conflicts or because he's targeting Muslims is completely false; they were already selected for him by the Obama administration and he cannot change it unless Congress changes it.
So what is this? In essence, Trump is using Obama's law (Terrorism Travel Prevention Act of 2015 and 8 USC 1187) using the same DHS policy implemented by Obama through DHS chair Jeh Johnson in February 2016 (
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/02/18/...waiver-program), on countries specifically chosen by Congress and approved by Obama, and enforcing the law set out by Congress during Obama's administration in the form of a 90-day ban on the countries designated as an area of concern.
So the time to protest was during Obama's administration when Obama and Congress were doing all of these things, and certainly civil rights groups knew about the laws that Obama had passed and the consequences:
https://www.niacaction.org/update-fr...ctions-may-12/
but yet the media did not blow it up while Obama was in office.
This is a multi-layered troll that also satisfies one of the promises that Trump had made. If you are only getting upset about this
now, then you are a hypocrite of the highest order because Trump is only enforcing the immigration laws passed by Obama on countries specifically selected by Obama and Congress as areas of concern, by using the same DHS policy as Obama in the form a 90 day visa suspension, just like what Obama had done to Iraqi refugees previously (
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qae...ry?id=20931131). It also discredits the media, who in this particular instance are spewing lies by omission regarding how the countries were chosen in the first place and the source of the laws of the executive order.