Little-Acorn
Gold Member
BREAKING: President orders temporary ban on refugees from mideast country, calls for extreme vetting, acknowledges major logjam in visas even for those who helped America against terrorists. Even though no terrorist from the country in question ever killed a noncombatant American citizen on US soil. Ever.
The President is even having people pulled off planes they had already boarded, and cancelling visas for those who had already received govt permission to come to the U.S.
The date: 2011.
The President: Barack Obama.
The country being enjoined: Iraq.
Do you recall hundreds of thousands of crybaby Democrats protesting against this Executive Order? Do you remember them calling Obama "cruel", "heartless", naming him "Hitler", etc.?
Neither do I. Because they never did. When Obama did these things, they were just fine with it.
But now that Trump is doing pretty much the same things, suddenly the squalling crybabies are outraged.
CONCLUSION:
Democrats don't actually care about inconvenience or unfairness to the Mideast people being blocked or detained. They only whine and protest because they see a chance to destroy Republicans, which has been their only goal all along.
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Trump’s facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama’s in 2011
The only news report that we could find that referred to a six-month ban was a 2013 ABC News article that included this line: “As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News — even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets.”
The “Kentucky case” refers to two Iraqis in Kentucky who in May 2011 were arrested and faced federal terrorism charges after officials discovered from an informant that Waad Ramadan Alwan, before he had been granted asylum in the United States, had constructed improvised roadside bombs in Iraq. The FBI, after examining fragments from thousands of bomb parts, found Alwan’s fingerprints on a cordless phone that had been wired to detonate an improvised bomb in 2005.
The arrests caused an uproar in Congress, and the Obama administration pledged to reexamine the records of 58,000 Iraqis who had been settled in the United States. The administration also imposed new, more extensive background checks on Iraqi refugees. Media reports at the time focused on how the new screening procedures had delayed visa approvals, even as the United States was preparing to end its involvement in the Iraq War.
“The enhanced screening procedures have caused a logjam in regular visa admissions from Iraq, even for those who risked their lives to aid American troops and who now fear reprisals as the Obama administration winds down the U.S. military presence,” the Baltimore Sun reported.
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The new rules were stringent, the Economist reported, and resulted in some turmoil.
“Immigration authorities soon began rechecking all Iraqi refugees in America, reportedly comparing fingerprints and other records with military and intelligence documents in dusty archives. About 1,000 soon-to-be immigrants in Iraq were told that they would not be allowed to board flights already booked. Some were removed from planes. Thousands more Iraqi applicants had to restart the immigration process, because their security clearances expired when the program stalled."
The President is even having people pulled off planes they had already boarded, and cancelling visas for those who had already received govt permission to come to the U.S.
The date: 2011.
The President: Barack Obama.
The country being enjoined: Iraq.
Do you recall hundreds of thousands of crybaby Democrats protesting against this Executive Order? Do you remember them calling Obama "cruel", "heartless", naming him "Hitler", etc.?
Neither do I. Because they never did. When Obama did these things, they were just fine with it.
But now that Trump is doing pretty much the same things, suddenly the squalling crybabies are outraged.
CONCLUSION:
Democrats don't actually care about inconvenience or unfairness to the Mideast people being blocked or detained. They only whine and protest because they see a chance to destroy Republicans, which has been their only goal all along.
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Trump’s facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama’s in 2011
The only news report that we could find that referred to a six-month ban was a 2013 ABC News article that included this line: “As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News — even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets.”
The “Kentucky case” refers to two Iraqis in Kentucky who in May 2011 were arrested and faced federal terrorism charges after officials discovered from an informant that Waad Ramadan Alwan, before he had been granted asylum in the United States, had constructed improvised roadside bombs in Iraq. The FBI, after examining fragments from thousands of bomb parts, found Alwan’s fingerprints on a cordless phone that had been wired to detonate an improvised bomb in 2005.
The arrests caused an uproar in Congress, and the Obama administration pledged to reexamine the records of 58,000 Iraqis who had been settled in the United States. The administration also imposed new, more extensive background checks on Iraqi refugees. Media reports at the time focused on how the new screening procedures had delayed visa approvals, even as the United States was preparing to end its involvement in the Iraq War.
“The enhanced screening procedures have caused a logjam in regular visa admissions from Iraq, even for those who risked their lives to aid American troops and who now fear reprisals as the Obama administration winds down the U.S. military presence,” the Baltimore Sun reported.
...
The new rules were stringent, the Economist reported, and resulted in some turmoil.
“Immigration authorities soon began rechecking all Iraqi refugees in America, reportedly comparing fingerprints and other records with military and intelligence documents in dusty archives. About 1,000 soon-to-be immigrants in Iraq were told that they would not be allowed to board flights already booked. Some were removed from planes. Thousands more Iraqi applicants had to restart the immigration process, because their security clearances expired when the program stalled."
