Wait, is this some... actual... good... news ? SSSH, Rhys, don't jinx it !
The US authorities have rolled back a controversial travel ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries after a judge suspended it. The state department said it was reversing the cancellations of visas, 60,000 of which were revoked after President Donald Drumpf's order. Judge James Robart ruled there were legal grounds to challenge the ban. Mr Drumpf called the verdict by the Seattle judge "ridiculous" and vowed to restore the ban.
Among those standing to benefit most from the suspension of the ban is four-month-old Fatemeh Reshad, an Iranian infant with a heart defect who will now receive life-saving surgery in the US after all. US doctors have pledged to treat her for free, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38868571
No, this is just the next stage of the game.
ReplyDeleteSo it only takes 16 years to forget 911.
ReplyDeleteRonald Stepp Connection between the citizens of the banned countries to 911 ... well, you already know the answer.
ReplyDeleteThe point is, a temporary ban while we reevaluate our system is going to make it safer int he future if we know more about who wants to come in to the country and only learn how to fly planes.
ReplyDeleteRonald Stepp The people coming in were already vetted. Many held green cards and visas. You are really going to have to explain to me how this makes anyone safer. In fact, I would argue the exact opposite. Groups like Isis celebrate moves like this. It completely supports their narrative.
ReplyDeleteDoing something is better than not doing anything. We're trying to but people are running around with preconceived knee jerk notions. The ones who didn't get the person they wanted for President are doing their best to stop the one who did win from trying to improve things. And the outgoing politicians are doing their best to poison the landscape he has to work in.
ReplyDeleteDoing something isn't always better than doing nothing, especially if that fuels extremism. The ban only gives fuel to the extremists who want to prove that America hates Muslims. Since 9/11, the number of Americans killed by terrorists is so low it makes absolutely no sense to suggest that suddenly an extreme ban is necessary when it hasn't been previously (http://www.euronews.com/2017/01/31/armed-toddlers-kill-twice-as-many-americans-each-year-than-terrorists). And people aren't campaigning to stop this president from doing things because they don't like him, it's the other way around : they don't like him because they don't like the things he's doing. They are in fact morally opposed to them, because they're unjust.
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