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Federal lawmakers are investigating how a former Iraqi insurgent fighter was able to lie about his identity and still get through America's 'extreme' vetting process.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to find out why the terror suspect's pending arrest was allegedly spiked just over a week before the election. Trump had run on a tough-on-terror platform and had been critical of President Obama's refugee policy.
"When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly 'met resistance' from officials within the National Security Division's Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC," Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:40PM (7 children)
Some constitutional rights apply to all people, some to people on US soil, and some to US citizens. (read carefully; check supreme court decisions)
There is probably no right to enter. Supposing there is, the constitution has a change process.
It's wishful thinking to imagine that importing the 3rd-world won't make us a 3rd-world country. A country is more than a chunk of land with some laws. Culture matters. When your culture involves tossing LGBT off of buildings and stoning women who report rape with less than 4 witnesses, you don't belong in the civilized world. These people mostly don't integrate. Rape culture is real... just not in the USA unless we invite it to immigrate.
Proper vetting: Eat a bacon cheeseburger while we watch your brain in an MRI scanner or SQUID.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:42PM (5 children)
The first ban was already ruled unconstitutional.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:55PM (2 children)
By the (frequently overruled) clowns of the 9th circuit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @03:33AM (1 child)
> By the (frequently overruled) clowns of the 9th circuit.
Error. Yet another right-wing half-truth.
The 9th circuit is not over-ruled any more than other circuits.
They just handle more cases than the other circuits, so they have more cases that end up in front of the SCOTUS.
So yes it is true that in absolute numbers they are the most over-ruled. But in terms of percentage of decisions they are not.
And its the latter that matters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @04:13AM
I'm surprised you didn't also point out that the first ban was, in fact, not (yet) ruled unconstitutional by the 9th circuit. No such ruling has yet to be made. The 9th circuit kept the temporary restraining order imposed by Judge James Robart of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in place. At most this means that the 9th circuit court agrees with Judge Robart that the plaintiffs are likely to win their case and that continuing the travel ban would cause irreparable harm if allowed to continue. A ruling on constitutionality has not yet been made.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:16PM (1 child)
Yep
It's absolutely embarrassing and shameful to be an American these days. Absolutely disgusting for this trash to gain power.
More like the land of the Amerinazis now.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:53PM
I love America now more than ever. Enjoy the grapes, they can be sour sometimes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @01:49AM
Well, true enough, as far as that goes.
In that case, maybe we should take the Statue of Liberty down and give it back to France? Perhaps they could find a country more worthy? And while we are at it, that plaque with the poem by Emma Lazarus should be taken down too. We don't do "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore" any more. I suppose many Americans just see that as too dangerous now.
Ironically, this has been said about most immigration waves coming to America. It was said about Germans back a little over a century ago; it was said about the Irish; it was said about the Japanese and Chinese; it was said about Italians and Jews. In fact, it's hard to think of any immigration wave that was not derided as people who "mostly don't integrate". Those past waves of immigrants are the ones who built this country and made it what it is today. Now imagine how impoverished our nation and our culture would be if all these other waves of immigrants had not been allowed in. This is what is at stake.