Monday, January 30, 2017

To begin WHAT EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER? Secondly...

...that is an effective vetting process and it may have come to President Obama's attention too late to stop it other than an executive order if such an order exists. Thirdly, that was two Iraqis, not entire masses of people! Someone has to say this? Really?


January 30, 2017

Former president Barack Obama (click here) rejected the idea Monday that President Donald Trump had based his immigration executive order on a policy adopted by his own administration, and endorsed the protests that have been taking place across the country in response to the new restrictions.

Trump has said that his move to ban the entry of migrants from seven Muslim-majority countries into the U.S., and to suspend temporarily the admission of refugees, was based in part by a decision in 2011 by then-President Obama to ban the admission of Iraqis to the U.S. after evidence surfaced that two Iraqis seeking resettlement had been linked to terrorist activity in their home country. Former Obama administration officials have denied that there was ever a halt to the awarding of visas to Iraqis, though the processing of these applications slowed after they were subject to more intense scrutiny....