Mori****a, there are a lot of little bones I could pick on details (for example, Feinstein is a hawk and it's hard for all the protests you wanted to happen over the Iraqi refugee pause in 2011 to have happened when there was apparently no reporting on it before 2013), but it's probably not productive so to just focus on the overall point:
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So yes, Obama and Congress built this and provided the direct precedent for the current ban that Trump is implementing with the executive order, specifically for people who have visited or are foreign nationals of those seven selected countries.
Okay, Obama gave the executive the authority to do what Trump is doing now. I'm with you.
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so in effect, it is the same implementation that Obama and Congress built and only differs with respect to how Syrian refugees are handled (justified under the selected seven countries) and the immediacy of the ban.
No, this is plainly false.
You're starting with a basis of "Obama laid the groundwork for this to be
possible" and working your way, with a bunch of specious arguments in the middle, to "this is actually the same thing Obama did". It's not. Full stop. Stop trying to lawyer your way to making "Obama did the Muslim ban" happen, it's not going to happen.
You're going to be carrying a lot of water for Trump doing a lot of bad things in the next 4+ years if all it takes is those actions being legal for you to be like "well, I guess Trump is totally cool here, liberals should really be protesting all the previous presidents and congresscritters that gave him this authority".
You're absolving Trump of any responsibility whatsoever to make the decision to
use that authority in a plainly worse manner than any other president ever has, and that is still dishonest trash that you can take elsewhere.