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| DATE | 2017-01-30 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] In other news, making America safe again
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One of the several interesting things about this executive order
(which was a Steve Bannon production obviously without running it by
anyone knowledgeable about borders, immigration, or the law) is that it
utterly fails to define the word 'from' in the phrase 'immigrant and
nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from' the seven
Muslim-majority countries. This is already leading to chaos and
to shameful injustices.
The word could mean having been born in one of those countries, it could
mean your parents having been born there, it could mean you passed
through one or lived there for a while. Who knows? Nobody. And CBP
officers have had the problem punted to them, with wildly erratic
results:
Since all of the seven have gone through war and civil strife, many
former citizens of those countries long ago left to live elsewhere in
the world, e.g, the many dissident Iranians and Syrians who left to live
in France, the United States, Israel, and other places to flee the
Islamic regime or to be with family abroad or for economic opportunity,
but are still considered Iranian or Syrian citizens, as are children of
such people even if they've never set foot in those countries. Some
countries don't even permit people to renounce their citizenship. (For
example, Cuba has been notorious for this.)
_Wall Street Journal_ reported that many people who hold dual
citizenship that includes one of the seven countries because of (say)
one parent or the other having that citizenship, but have zero actual
connection with that country, have been detained or denied entry
just because of being qualified for that citizenship to a country they
have nothing to do with, and even though they have Green Cards. And,
according to CNN, this mind-bogglingly stupid interpretation had been
pushed by Trump gnomes Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon over top DHS
officials' objections -- because, after all, hey, what would they know
about homeland security?
This debacle is being slowly dismantled by Federal judges, and more of
that will be happening as the business week starts and judges start
saying 'Those amateurs and maniacs have done _what_?'
It's also starting to dawn on people that Trump uses _deliberately bullshit_
executive orders as public showpieces, something no president has had
the bad judgement to attempt before. He holds big impressive ceremonies
to sign orders that actually have no effect whatsoever. My first 'WTF?'
was when Trump claimed a week ago to have killed TPP via executive order
and issued a bunch of press releases claiming credit. Um, sorry King
Joffrey^W^W um, Mr. President, sir, the Senate killed TPP last August
when it became obvious it wouldn't pass because a solid bloc of
Democratic Party Senators wouldn't vote for it:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/293344-mcconnell-tpp-not-coming-up-this-year
But my favorite Potemkin Village executive order (if you'll pardon the
Russian metaphor) is the one on Friday proclaiming a 'great rebuilding'
of the US military.
King Joffrey, sir, I wish to call your attention to Article I, Section 8
of the US Constitution, which gives Congress the exclusive power to, as
it says, 'provide for the common defense'. It's called the power of the
purse string, Your Lordship, and unless you get Congressional
appropriations, you ain't rebuilding jack, sir.
What's depressing is that Orangutan is probably not even _aware_ of
making the Presidency look ridiculous by these actions.
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