The ban just enacted includes legal US residents

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Half baked, stupid policy gets enacted in half baked, stupid way

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As long a state Ryan is speaker, we only have two branches of government. Judicial and Executive. Congress is just an extension of the White House.

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If a person fled the Iran in the 70's or 80's to escape the mullahs, say to the U.K. or France, that person would still have Iranian citizenship and would be barred from stepping foot on US soil.

Completely stupid.

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Of all the Muslim terrorists who have successfully attacked the United States, none of them would've been caught by this ban.

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I hope every Republican appreciates the work Charlie Dent does to prove you're not ALL insane:

[quote]I urge the admin to halt enforcement of this order, until a more thoughtful and deliberate policy can be instated.[/url]

Dent's district is 0.69% Syrian. The second most of any CD held by a Republican (NY-11 is 1st).

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It appears as if the White House gave absolutely no warning to DHS this policy was coming, and (and this is being backed up by anonymous sources) that DHS had little to no input as to how the order should be written or applied.

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Protestors shouting "No Ban, No Registry, F*** White Supremacy" outside of JFK

That probably won't help anything.

What the *** does it hurt? If you want to tssk tssk protesters for using foul language to attack this legitimately bad policy, then you need a wake up call.

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Protestors shouting "No Ban, No Registry, F*** White Supremacy" outside of JFK

That probably won't help anything.

What the *** does it hurt? If you want to tssk tssk protesters for using foul language to attack this legitimately bad policy, then you need a wake up call.

I've been critical of this policy pretty much all day. Not sure what your problem is.

It hurts in that the protestors are completely missing the point by injecting racial BS into this.

I'd say a blanket ban on Muslims is "racial BS".

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Governor T-Mac being a huge FF and actually standing up against this... haven't heard many other elected officials rebuke this yet.

Perriello and Northam both put out statements basically calling the ban un-American.

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The ban just enacted also happens to include Omid Nouripour, dual German-Iranian citizen, Green MP, and deputy chair of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Bundestag.

At the speed Trump acts, I wonder with which countries in the world the United States will still maintain diplomatic relations four years from now... maybe the UK, Israel, and Russia?

Diplomats, foreign officials, and similar were exempt.

British Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi, who was born in Iraq but has renounced his Iraqi citizenship, says he and his wife are both affected by the ban.

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Protestors shouting "No Ban, No Registry, F*** White Supremacy" outside of JFK

That probably won't help anything.

What the *** does it hurt? If you want to tssk tssk protesters for using foul language to attack this legitimately bad policy, then you need a wake up call.

I've been critical of this policy pretty much all day. Not sure what your problem is.

It hurts in that the protestors are completely missing the point by injecting racial BS into this.

'What's the big deal? It's only 90 days' isn't critical.  It's excuse making.

Never once said it wasn't a big deal.

It definitely came across that way.


Also, Ben Sasse and Justin Amash have also put out statements opposing the ban. Sasse called it "too broad" and Amash said it was " not lawful"

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The botched, heavy-handed rollout to this is a pretty strong argument as to why electing someone with no governing experience to the highest office in the world isn't a good idea.