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Posted
1 hour ago, marcus said:

So Trump is banning Iranians because they are fighting another country? The country that has produced and funded Al Qaeda and ISIS?

America First!

Perhaps the reason he isn't banning people from Saudi, UAE and Egypt is because he has Trump towers there.

 

 

Perhaps...but other nations may be added in the future.    President Trump's decision....not foreign nationals who want to travel to the U.S.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted (edited)
21 minutes ago, Smallc said:

They've already had to walk back at least 3 parts of the ban (US residents, Canadian citizens and residents, and UK citizens) just as they had to walk back their Mexico wall talk when Pena Nieto called Trump's bluff.

There's no strength - only chaos.

First of all the order for the wall saying to begin construction is in effect and a "buffet" of options for payment is out there.

second of all the order for travel bans is essentially still in effect save for the conditions you outlined.

if trump wants chaos, chaos he will have.  It is strength as the orders are still implemented.  I would wager the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and The UAE are having fits about this and Russia and China will be taking notes as well

Edited by blueblood

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Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77

Posted
Just now, blueblood said:

First of all the order saying to begin construction is in effect and a "buffet" of options for payment is out there.

second of all the order is essentially still in effect save for the conditions you outlined.

if trump wants chaos, chaos he will have.  It is strength as the orders are still implemented.  

 

I agree...President Trump is firmly demonstrating that it will not be business as usual.    He is going to rattle a lot of people's cages, and enjoy doing so.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted (edited)

U.S. Code already gives President Trump and others the authority to suspend entry to the United States, to wit:

8 U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens

(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President

"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182

Edited by bush_cheney2004

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted

Trump legalising Mass Discrimination.....Trump just pissed on millions who lost their lives in WW1, WW2 and Cold War fighting evil of Mass Discrimination.......Mass Discrimination is Nazism Doctrine. Ofcourse you are entitled to follow that ideology. Not in my name...

Posted
Just now, kactus said:

Trump legalising Mass Discrimination.....Trump just pissed on millions who lost their lives in WW1, WW2 and Cold War fighting evil of Mass Discrimination.......Mass Discrimination is Nazism Doctrine. Ofcourse you are entitled to follow that ideology. Not in my name...

 

OK....are you an American citizen ?   Did you vote in the 2016 presidential election ?  

U.S. Code is the law of the land.   President Trump has the legal responsibility to invoke such laws when he deems them necessary...that's why such laws exist.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted

The list of banned nations came from a bill that President Obama signed into law in 2015:

Obama signed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act as part of an omnibus spending bill. The legislation restricted access to the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens from 38 countries who are visiting the United States for less than 90 days to enter without a visa.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158/text

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted
11 hours ago, Argus said:

And third, the reason tech companies are so eager to hire people from abroad is because they can pay them less, and boss them around, and make them work long hours with no overtime.

In medicine, the Canadians don't want to work in small towns at all. It's often IMG or nothing.

Posted
12 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

I have worked with excellent physicians from Syria, Iraq and Iran and would consider myself lucky to do so again. Your immigration data may not be detailed enough to reflect that reality.  

No, the information is macro and you are speaking micro. You're few experiences within a specific industry do not reflect the totality of the picture, as you should clearly know. Very, very, very few of the immigrants who come here are physicians.

"A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

In medicine, the Canadians don't want to work in small towns at all. It's often IMG or nothing.

There are ways to take care of that without importing foreigners. Special tax treatments, for example, and government loans and guaranteed internships to would-be doctors who promise to work in small towns. We should also be training more doctors, and not filling up hospital residencies with foreigners whose government's are paying their way.

Edited by Argus

"A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley

Posted

I have personal experience with foreign workers in the IT industry using H1B and TN work visas at sponsoring companies or big consulting houses out of India (e.g. Infosys or Tata).    It is a problem for American workers and has been for quite a while.   It is one of the reasons I chose to retire in 2015.   Wages have been undercut and older workers have been displaced because of high salaries.   Fortunately, the offshoring of IT services entirely began to come back onshore because of poor performance and difficult project management.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Argus said:

There are ways to take care of that without importing foreigners. Special tax treatments, for example, and government loans and guaranteed internships to would-be doctors who promise to work in small towns. We should also be training more doctors, and not filling up hospital residencies with foreigners whose government's are paying their way.

Where there's no will, there's no way. Those promises to work in the boonies turn out to be surprisingly difficult to enforce. Young people want to live in cities and the medical associations are not willing to give sufficient bonuses (which would come from the pay packets of doctors in cities) to make the outback attractive. In my province there is a clear segregating tendency in the medical workforce: younger, urban, Canadian females; older, rural, foreign males.       

Posted
10 minutes ago, Smallc said:

Donald Trump has fired the Attorney General.

I dare say she knew she was gone anyway, so why not take a stand and be respected for it?

Posted
2 hours ago, Smallc said:

Donald Trump has fired the Attorney General.

Sounds like her time "in the board room" didn't go too well.  Should have watched the apprentice...

"Stop the Madness!!!" - Kevin O'Leary

"Money is the ultimate scorecard of life!". - Kevin O'Leary

Economic Left/Right: 4.00

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77

Posted
1 hour ago, blueblood said:

Sounds like her time "in the board room" didn't go too well.  Should have watched the apprentice...

 

If she could not support the president's policies, it was her duty to resign, not wait to be fired.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted
35 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:

 

If she could not support the president's policies, it was her duty to resign, not wait to be fired.

 

Exactly.........see Douglas MacArthur versus Truman.

Posted
4 hours ago, bcsapper said:

I dare say she knew she was gone anyway, so why not take a stand and be respected for it?

Unfortunately, the left will be blinded to her self serving actions and she will be looked at as a hero for the cause..

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. - Ronald Reagan


I have said that the Western world is just as violent as the Islamic world - Dialamah


Europe seems to excel at fooling people to immigrate there from the ME only to chew them up and spit them back. - Eyeball


Unfortunately our policies have contributed to retarding and limiting their (Muslim's) society's natural progression towards the same enlightened state we take for granted. - Eyeball


Posted (edited)
8 hours ago, Hal 9000 said:

Unfortunately, the left will be blinded to her self serving actions and she will be looked at as a hero for the cause..

I don't know how heroic it was, as she will probably not be short of good job offers.  But it was right, in my opinion.  Almost Niemollerian

14 minutes ago, Smallc said:

Isn't the first duty of the Attorney General to the Constitution of the United States?

I would say so. 

Edited by bcsapper
Posted
15 minutes ago, Smallc said:

Isn't the first duty of the Attorney General to the Constitution of the United States?

 

No...the U.S. Attorney General and DoJ have specific enumerated responsibilities:

 

The mission of the Office of the Attorney General is to supervise and direct the administration and operation of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Bureau of Prisons, Office of Justice Programs, and the U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals Service, which are all within the Department of Justice.

The principal duties of the Attorney General are to:

  • Represent the United States in legal matters.
     
  • Supervise and direct the administration and operation of the offices, boards, divisions, and bureaus that comprise the Department.
     
  • Furnish advice and opinions, formal and informal, on legal matters to the President and the Cabinet and to the heads of the executive departments and agencies of the government, as provided by law.
     
  • Make recommendations to the President concerning appointments to federal judicial positions and to positions within the Department, including U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals.
     
  • Represent or supervise the representation of the United States Government in the Supreme Court of the United States and all other courts, foreign and domestic, in which the United States is a party or has an interest as may be deemed appropriate.
     
  • Perform or supervise the performance of other duties required by statute or Executive Order.

https://www.justice.gov/jmd/organization-mission-and-functions-manual-attorney-general

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Posted
21 minutes ago, Smallc said:

Isn't the first duty of the Attorney General to the Constitution of the United States?

Clearly she was too emotional for the job.  She probably couldn't believe her luck when she was given the opportunity to be a martyr for the cause.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. - Ronald Reagan


I have said that the Western world is just as violent as the Islamic world - Dialamah


Europe seems to excel at fooling people to immigrate there from the ME only to chew them up and spit them back. - Eyeball


Unfortunately our policies have contributed to retarding and limiting their (Muslim's) society's natural progression towards the same enlightened state we take for granted. - Eyeball


Posted
2 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:

Clearly she was too emotional for the job.  She probably couldn't believe her luck when she was given the opportunity to be a martyr for the cause.

Or maybe she's just a decent person.  Who knows, eh?

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