Paul Mulholland & Kristen Borowski
Left I realized later than most that Trumpanzees have no standards whatsoever. After the Iowa Caucuses, having lost to Ted Cruz many insisted Trump had in fact won because nobody expected him to come this far at all, and more importantly, it was the first time people had come out to vote for him. About a year later, we are confronted with the same problem: could Donald Trump lose his supporters under any circumstances? Don’t count on it. Trump supporters do not seem discouraged that Trump’s recent executive order is not the total ban on Muslims that Trump supporters were promised during the campaign. The non-discrimination of the order is at least as worrisome as its discrimination. Trump cut the number of refugees the U.S. is to accept this year in half regardless of origin (more refugees come from Congo than any other country), and banned all Syrian refugees indefinitely. He also banned all nationals of Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Syria from entering the U.S. for 90 days (can terrorists come in on the 91st day? No, terrorists aren’t allowed in to begin with!) Thus far, he has prevented several professors, Yazidi refugees (non-Muslim polytheists that ISIS tried and failed to exterminate), and about 500 Iraqis granted U.S. visas for assisting the U.S. military. He has inconvenienced foreign workers of Google and Microsoft far more than any jihadist outfit. Meanwhile, according to The Economist, not one “terrorist” attack has been committed by a citizen of the seven countries in the last ten years. And the order only discriminates against less than 10% of the world’s terrorists-to-be. Donald Trump has fallen short of his own stupid policy. The order reads, “The United States cannot, and should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place violent ideologies over American law.” Now that is a proposition worth considering, especially its second half. But does it apply to everyone in these seven countries? This is not vetting or monitoring. US law already requires a visa for those who have visited Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Iran; as our right columnist explains in detail. What she should have justified was the ban, not the visa requirement, if only because that is what we are talking about here. The Courts have stayed the order on Due Process and Equal Protection grounds and it is currently being appealed. But Trump’s clownish and sinister attempt to ban a religion and explicit contempt for the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution, make Americans less safe and reaffirm, again, one of Trump’s few honest statements “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Right I don’t why it is so hard for people to understand that President Trump’s Executive Order is not a Muslim ban. It is a way to monitor immigration into our country by vetting immigrants and asylum seekers and keeping out those seeking to bring harm to the United States. To the Democrats and liberals who think so poorly of this Executive Order: read the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015. Per a January 21, 2016 press release from the Department of Homeland Security, “travelers in the following categories are no longer eligible to travel or be admitted to the United States under the VWP: Nationals of VWP countries who have traveled to or been present in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria on or after March 1, 2011...Nationals of VWP countries who are also nationals of Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria.” (Read the full bill here.) So President Trump didn’t single out these countries; President Obama did so long before. Now what do you have to say? According to the Pew Research Center, the top ten countries in 2010 with the largest Muslim populations are Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Algeria, and Morocco. One out of the the ten countries here made the ban. The Left columnist is distracted by old news about the Iowa Caucuses and Ted Cruz...I guess you fell asleep on November 8; the Electoral Map spoke for itself as did the people. We don’t want to continue down the liberal path; we don’t want to have a problem, similar to that of Europe, and their millions of “refugees” who have driven trucks through crowds and have ruthlessly murdered innocent people. President Trump is preventing that by taking care of immigration properly and legally, i.e. following strict vetting and security procedures. Time to take off the rose colored glasses and check the facts. The Washington Examiner cites a report by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest that 72 people from the 7 banned countries have been convicted of terrorism. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the terrorists behind the November 2015 Paris attacks, spent a lot of time training with ISIS in Syria. Newsflash to the left: ISIS plays by their own rules. They don’t care about policy or protocol--they care only about their caliphate and bringing destruction to the West. While we sit around and bicker over semantics, they are strengthening themselves. When you arrive home each night, what do you do? You close your front door behind you and lock it to protect yourself and your family. Wake up--bad people live in this world and want to harm good people. We can prevent it by staying vigilant and protecting our freedom. United we stand against the Islamic terrorist threat; divided we fall. 1. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/01/21/united-states-begins-implementation-changes-visa-waiver-program 2. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158/text 3. http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/muslims/pf_15-04-02_projectionstables74/ 4. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-72-convicted-of-terrorism-from-trump-7-mostly-muslim-countries/article/2614582 5. http://news.sky.com/story/abaaoud-profile-of-man-behind-paris-attacks-10339387
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