http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40409490
The US Supreme Court has partially lifted an injunction against President Donald Trump's travel ban.
The Supreme Court said in Monday's ruling: "In practical terms, this means that [the executive order] may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.
"All other foreign nationals are subject to the provisions of [the executive order]."
Mark this down as a win for Donald Trump. The path to entry into the US for immigrants and refugees from the affected nations, if they don't have existing ties to the US - either through family, schools or employment - just became considerably harder.
The decision marks a reaffirmation of the sweeping powers the president has traditionally been granted by the courts in areas of national security. There was fear in some quarters that the administration's ham-fisted implementation of its immigration policy could do lasting damage to the president's prerogatives. That appears not to be the case.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday June 27 2017, @03:15PM (17 children)
No one is arguing for unrestricted immigration. They are arguing against blacklisting entire nations because a few loonies committed terrorism. It won't do anything to stop terrorism and is nothing more than fear mongering and pandering to ignorant scaredy cats like you. Security theater at its finest. We have close to 16,000 people murdered in the USA per year. Mostly all by non-muslim CITIZENS. So excuse me if I don't buy into the fear mongering bullshit.
How would that change their mind? I know a few and they are all regular people. Their food is pretty damn good too. I thank Allah for their delicious chicken and rice carts/stores.
How about you go live with a muslim and watch how quickly they are repulsed by your narrow mindedness and lack of compassion. Would do you some good to step out of your tiny reality bubble.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @03:50PM
They live on fear, if they step out of their bubble their minds will shrivel up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @03:50PM (1 child)
This is part of the problem: Pew Poll: 42% of Muslim Youth in France ALWAYS Support Suicide ... [thegatewaypundit.com] The problem is that terrorism is just a indicator on top of the iceberg. There is essentially a lot of problems with Muslims and no significant upside. Too many mosques and "schools" works as a tools for indoctrination that will only end with armed conflict.
(warning for a really bloody picture from the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in 2015)
Only a few loonies commit terrorism now. But they increase as a percentage over time and they above all have passive and active support in their own communities. Besides there's no reason to permit them into the country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @04:08PM
They live on fear of being labeled -ist, if they step out of their bubble their minds will shrivel up.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:35PM (7 children)
Hey, I'd be O.K. with a travel ban on Oklahoma, after that whole McVeigh business that should be ample grounds, right? How about Osama's home country, lots of al Queda in there too, gotta nip that problem in the bud before it can happen again, etc. etc. etc.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:48PM (6 children)
McVeigh wasn't an Okie, dumbass, he was a New Yorker.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 27 2017, @06:11PM (4 children)
Even better, we should build a wall around the seven boroughs, shouldn't we?
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 27 2017, @07:42PM
We should! And it's a good thing, as it looks like the promotional materials are coming in just at the right time [deadline.com].
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 27 2017, @10:15PM (2 children)
Seven boroughs? The five boroughs plus jersey and connecticut?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @11:00PM (1 child)
At the very least, I think we can all agree that we should build a wall around New Jersey.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 28 2017, @12:57AM
They celebrated when the Twin Towers fell. Thousands of them got up on the rooftops and partied. Shameful!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @07:53PM
But he was a Muslin, born in Kenya! Did you notice the first reports said Muslin terror, but then that was buried rather quickly? Like, almost too quickly? Think about it! (Should we go for "SoylentWars" or "InfoNews"?)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:38PM
They are arguing against blacklisting entire nations because a few loonies committed terrorism.
Also doesn't help that the countries loonies have actually come from in the past aren't included...
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Tuesday June 27 2017, @06:50PM (1 child)
No. There are people who do argue for unfettered immigration. The search terms you want are 'open borders.'
Absolutes are often silly.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @11:52PM
As opposed to those arguing for "fettered immigration"? What we tacitly refer to as "slavery"? Goddamned Neo-Confederates!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @03:53AM (2 children)
If this isn't the most GENERIC response to open borders I don't know what is. *I* haven't been stabbed. *I* haven't been robbed. *I* haven't experienced anything bad, *I* don't know who these people are who have. *I'm* so progressive, read my social media, I'm a beacon of light and tolerance.
And for those of us that can see beyond the tip of our nose and read news from across the ocean we see a pattern. A pattern that every single country, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, that has accepted the flood has had a rise in violent crime and "brutal" rapes. Sweden, the "most tolerant", is the rape capital of Europe and very high on the world's list. Sweden is set to be a 3rd world country by 2030. Fucking Sweden! Germany has such a rape epidemic that they no longer write down the ethnicity of the attacker because it's "racist" (imagine how many are caught then). The guy who had the "sexual emergency" and raped the child, and the blew my brain out the back of my head when I read this, the supreme court overturned the conviction saying the child could have "consented" (seriously look this one up for yourself).
The issue isn't just the refugees themselves (more accurately economic migrants according to UN laws), it's all the apologists like you. Giving them a pass to assault/steal/rape as it's their "culture" and allowing their "religion" in our schools after we finally got christianity out.
Keep watching your comedy-news and pretend you have a clue what's going on in the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @07:07AM
What? How can you say this?
I thought it was consensual! Did you not want me all up in you? Well, you certainly should have said something! And now you are using our love to plaster a whole group of people fleeing for their lives from certain death? Well, you are certainly not who you presented yourself as when you first tried to seduce me! If I had known you were an alt-right skinhead, I never would have fucked you. So consider that taken back.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:59AM
I have been attacked with a knife in my own neighborhood.
I have. At knife and gunpoint.
See above.
I know plenty.
Who isn't? Without progress, you have stagnation.
I don't do social media.
It's called "Don't bother me and I won't bother you."
First you come at me with this weak generic attack calling me generic while completely missing all of your marks (major fail). Now you're telling me you see patterns. Please.