Saturday, January 28, 2017

This is not what the United States is about.


President Trump has issued executive orders over the last 48 hours dealing with refugees from predominantly Muslim countries and their admittance to the United States. While most people understand the obvious reasons for this (the chance of even one potential terrorist out of all the people seeking to flee terror among the applicants) for these knee-jerk postures, this policy may not have short and long term benefits. First, as the CNN link below illustrates, the Executive Orders may be discriminatory giving priority to Christian Refugees from this area. This is not what this country is supposed to be about. I.S.I.L. and their confederates have massacred more Moslems than other groups. Do we just leave them to the tender mercies of their predators on the ground? Especially the people that had already filed the proper paperwork or the ones who actively assisted us in combatting terror in these areas. Second, not one recent act of terror on American soil has come from a person or persons who were once refugees. Finally, it appears that the executive order excludes countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. This is ironic since most of these countries have had terrorist connections. Fifteen of the Nineteen 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. There has been an increase in terrorist activity in Turkey and the Moslem Brotherhood still has a strong following in Egypt. Another irony with these nations is that Trump Enterprises has business arrangements with all of them. I guess it is family profit before National Safety.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-christian-refugees/index.html?sr=fbpol012817trump-christian-refugees0401AMVODtopLink&linkId=33870373

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