Legal permanent residents being stopped at the border

alphaboi867 · January 29, 2017, 2:01am

That can’t possibly be legal, can it? :eek:

iiandyiiii · January 29, 2017, 2:01am

That’s behind a paywall for me, but other googling suggests that it’s not US dual citizens, but other countries’ dual citizens (say, France and Yemen) that are banned. US dual citizens can still get in on their US passport.

Still an incredibly inhumane and unAmerican policy.

Czarcasm · January 29, 2017, 2:01am

It’s a hostile hacking of the system.

ThelmaLou · January 29, 2017, 2:02am

Don’t you know that The Donald is LOVING the fact that once again, he is in every headline in every media outlet in the world. And to have so many people objecting and opposing him must make him feel strong and powerful.

I can see him staring at his hands as he flexes them, stretching the fingers and then making them into fists. "Yeah, they are big, strong hands! Giant hands. The biggest hands in the world. With them I can keep people out of the country… or let them in by crooking my yuuuuge pinkie. Quick! Bring me another Executive Order to sign!"

Who cares? You got a problem with that?

Czarcasm · January 29, 2017, 2:04am

You may be right. The entire article from The Wall Street Journal consisted of

Northern_Piper · January 29, 2017, 2:04am

Federal District Court grants nation-wide stay of the ban.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/1/28/14427086/federal-court-halts-trumps-immigration-ban?client=safari

Snowboarder_Bo · January 29, 2017, 2:27am

I got another link about the same thing: http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/muslim-ban-federal-court

Looks like it didn’t take long to get that class action suit filed!

UltraVires · January 29, 2017, 2:52am

From my reading of this, the government is prohibited from deporting those who have arrived or were en route as of the filing of the complaint. It would not be of help to anyone who was traveling back to the U.S. tomorrow, for example.

Further, it only prohibits deportation, it does not say that they must be released.

Battle_Pope · January 29, 2017, 2:58am

It will be mandatory.

DSeid · January 29, 2017, 3:31am

I have been frustrated by “my side’s” knee-jerk reactions to every little twit-fit that the attention seeking President Preschooler spits out … this though is now something he has actually done, a likely illegal something that hopefully will not stand … but a horrific something.

To some few Republicans’ credits there are some beginning to speak out against it. To great shame their leadership is not among them. Mostly you have to look for it to come from those with large Muslim populations in their districts and the likes of Evan McMullin:

… Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer and House GOP policy director who waged an independent presidential bid in 2016, was one of a small number of Republicans to publicly oppose the ban. McMullin tweeted a photo of the Statue of Liberty on Saturday morning, and was promptly mocked by the white nationalist Richard Spencer.

“That’s who they’re in league with — white supremacists and white nationalists,” McMullin said in an interview. “I’m not expecting much opposition from the vast majority of Republicans in Congress. There is anti-Muslim bigotry at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and it fundamentally un-American and tangibly damaging to our national security and strength.”

Most Republicans, McMullin predicted, would decline to criticize the executive orders. “Those who are silent on this will be defined by that silence,” he said.

ThelmaLou · January 29, 2017, 3:50am

DSeid:

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To some few Republicans’ credits there are some beginning to speak out against it. To great shame their leadership is not among them. Mostly you have to look for it to come from those with large Muslim populations in their districts and the likes of Evan McMullin:

… Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer and House GOP policy director who waged an independent presidential bid in 2016, was one of a small number of Republicans to publicly oppose the ban. McMullin tweeted a photo of the Statue of Liberty on Saturday morning, and was promptly mocked by the white nationalist Richard Spencer.

“That’s who they’re in league with — white supremacists and white nationalists,” McMullin said in an interview. “I’m not expecting much opposition from the vast majority of Republicans in Congress. There is anti-Muslim bigotry at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and it fundamentally un-American and tangibly damaging to our national security and strength.”

Most Republicans, McMullin predicted, would decline to criticize the executive orders. “Those who are silent on this will be defined by that silence,” he said.

Thank goodness someone is speaking up!

Holy crap, how can these gutless representatives remain silent in the face of this bullshit.

jayjay · January 29, 2017, 3:54am

Because they know that their demented, inbred “base” thinks this is wonderful. I’ve been perusing online news article comments tonight and I’m about ready to throw up blood, that’s how sick the Trumpies’ celebration of this EO has been. There are some really horrible people on the right…

ThelmaLou · January 29, 2017, 4:03am

I know you’re right, and it makes me so sad and so angry. And sleepless.

AK84 · January 29, 2017, 5:42am

Of the ban in toto? That’s not my reading. Looks like only a small subset, people who were in transit when it took effect. And only as to deportation.

Rick_Kitchen · January 29, 2017, 6:11am

The ban on dual citizens doesn’t apply to US citizens with dual citizenship, it applies to citizens of the evil countries he’s banning who are also dual citizens of *other *countries.

Sage_Rat · January 29, 2017, 7:11am

Despite being a lazy homebody, I’m almost willing to get out there and protest (except I just found out about this and it’s already been “resolved”). But no, this is not what a war on religion looks like. The 30 Years War was a war on religion and this is what it looked like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War#/media/File:The_Hanging_by_Jacques_Callot.jpg

Certainly, this would be a first step in that direction. But let’s save the extreme proclamations for once we get there.

This is a tragedy and a disgrace. But it’s not (yet) a war on religion.

septimus · January 29, 2017, 8:52am

“Resolved”? Due to a judge’s temporary order, a very tiny subset of the people affected will be kept locked up in detention instead of being deported immediately. Persons with American visas who hadn’t yet boarded their plane are having their tickets ripped up at the country of departure.

The Holocaust didn’t begin with gas ovens or even the “Night of Broken Glass.” It began with racist rhetoric, denied employments, and state-sponsored incitement of thugs to beat up the “inferior” people.

I loathe Trump fervently, but thought Godwinizing him was hyperbolic. Yet, tragedy strikes before he’s even warmed up the shitter in the Oval Office. :eek:

Sage_Rat · January 29, 2017, 9:02am

So I’ve discovered since writing my post.

rat_avatar · January 29, 2017, 9:10am

While we may have a POtuS that aspires to be a dictator, videos like these give me hope that America will not accept it.

http://usuncut.com/resistance/watch-protesters-welcome-refugees/

septimus · January 29, 2017, 10:23am

rat avatar’s link is just a click away from:

http://usuncut.com/politics/psychologists-explain-what-trumps-constant-lying-does-to-our-brains:

The human mind suffers when faced with a constant barrage of lying, as leading psychologists have discovered, and lies are eventually accepted as truth.

… the mind can eventually be worn down, as a human being only has a certain capacity to evaluate the veracity of every statement it hears. This means that when exposed to enough lying for a long period of time, the human brain will be slowly incapable of discerning fact from fiction.

The brain, [Harvard psychologist Daniel] Gilbert wrote, “[W]hen faced with shortages of time, energy, or conclusive evidence, may fail to unaccept the ideas that they involuntarily accept during comprehension.”

In the 1970s, a team of psychologists from Temple University and Villanova University … discovered illusory truth when presenting a group of people with a set of statements two evaluate as true or false over a period of two weeks. The psychologists found that when presenting the group with the same false statements, they were more likely to be rated as true when confronted with the lie the second and third times.

As Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels famously stated, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” The Hasher/Goldstein/Toppino study appears to provide the empirical evidence to support that claim.

With Donald Trump in office for the next four years — who, according to Politico, lied once every three minutes and 15 seconds over five hours of speeches and press conferences — this can only spell trouble for the American brain as it struggles to comprehend what’s true and what’s false. As Politifact confirmed, 69 percent of Trump’s statements fact-checked during the campaign season were either rated “mostly false,” “false,” or “pants on fire.” Only 16 percent of his statements were rated “true” or “mostly true.”