as seen on tv
Senator
http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/12/08/trump-maintains-call-for-muslim-ban/
“As president, I would establish internment camps for muslims, and force them to live there under armed guard. I would confiscate their property for the duration of the military conflict. We have to be careful, since we can’t tell the enemy sympathizers from the loyal ones”
Oops – Trump didn’t say that about the Muslims. That’s FDR (his rationale paraphrased) after Pearl Harbor.
This doesn’t mean Trump is right, any more than FDR was. I don’t support Trump's plan to ban ALL LEGAL ENTRY of muslims into america. But I do think congress should be allowed to fulfill it's function: review the process we use to admit so called “refugees”, since our government apparently can’t distinguish between terrorists and ordinary applicants. This is simply too complicated and fraught with danger to entrust to one president’s cockeyed vision (Obama’s or Trumps).
There are plenty of good reasons to allow an immigrant – ANY nationality or faith – into America. H1B work visa; spouse visa (the kind Trashfeen Farook used as a ruse to enter the USA); Student visa; tourist visa. After we get done with those legitimate, lawful entry visas, there’s currently (by law) a quota on “everyone else”.
I don’t want Trump to put everyone of a particular religion at the back of the line. I don’t want Obama to put everyone of that religion at the front of the line. I don’t want laws and regulation ignored completely, by throngs of heavily tatted latino gang members or poseurs claiming to be Syrian refugees.
Let congress do it’s oversight job. Ignore the bleatings of Trump, Obama, and even Hillary, whose opinions seem to change whenever the headlines do. This is why the constitution provides for 3 branches of government, rather than a dictator who is allowed to make up his own rules as he goes along.
Follow the constitution. And if you don’t like our current laws, ask your congressperson to draft a new one and allow it to be debated openly on capitol hill, and reported in the newspapers. Don’t allow one dimwit to scheme in secret from the oval office to screw some group. Or to give them a leg up on everyone else who actually ARE following the rules and waiting their turn to come here.
That should be simple enough to understand, even for all the frenzied, foaming at the mouth partisans of Obama and Trump, no?