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Originally Posted by ianch99
To equate the USA and Kuwait is just being dumb.
The USA is founded on immigration, it is the self-proclaimed "land of the free" and up until recently welcomed all irrespective of race or religion. Trump (and Bannon behind him, pulling the strings) is trying to stop this based on their prejudices and "America First" goals.
Define "safe"? If your child is shot in High School or a victim of a drive-by shooting, is their death "acceptable"? Are those deaths tolerated?
Apparently they are. If Trump's priority was to make America "safe" then he would not start with a Muslim ban when no Americans have been killed on US soil by said immigrants.
The USA already carefully vets potential immigrants:
How does the US screen refugees? Very carefully
so the EO Muslim Ban is just political theatre pandering to his electorate, nothing more. |
A friend of mine on facebook made a good point. She made the point that there are ways Trump could have introduced the delay (remember he assured us that this ban is only a delay) into the system without generating the news he did. Simply delay the checks.
As for the threat posed by Islamic extremists, there is one (to suggest otherwise is, frankly, stupid) but it's not as great as any of our governments have said. Indeed, in America, you are far more likely to be killed by a right wing extremist that you are an Muslim extremist.
http://europe.newsweek.com/right-win...s-422743?rm=eu