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originally posted by: khnum
a reply to: smurfy
I have no problem with nationalism but extreme nationalism focused on a minority group as the cause for all ills is a very slippery slope,I dont want radical islamics either but that cant spill over to decent muslims already here.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: carewemust
The problem is the media and the left are ignoring the strengthening of the vetting process and the fact its temporary until new guidelines can be developed and put in place.
They are selling it as a permanent ban on Muslims and they are doing it to push a political agenda.
Fear mongering and fake news at its finest.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: MagesticEsoteric
Good points. I really didn't think Americans would complain about strengthening the vetting process. Most of the turmoil must be coming from people who are Anti-Trump. Sensible logic is pushed to the back burner by hate and hurt. What a shame.
originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: MagesticEsoteric
Good points. I really didn't think Americans would complain about strengthening the vetting process. Most of the turmoil must be coming from people who are Anti-Trump. Sensible logic is pushed to the back burner by hate and hurt. What a shame.
Careful now.... we both just might make too much sense.
Heads could explode and all....😂
originally posted by: ugmold
a reply to: xuenchen
Erupting in Logan in Boston, it is chaos, people were literally in the air and no agencies were contacted before hand. As the Attorney General said, "This is no way to Govern".
originally posted by: MagesticEsoteric
a reply to: xuenchen
It's quite simple imo...
I would only ask these questions from the protesters:
Would you welcome these people in your own home without asking questions first?
originally posted by: trb71
Approximately 50 detainees at DFW Airport and a protest growing there now. We know some of the detained is a 77 year old grandmother, parents from Syria coming to visit their kid at SMU College, and a mother who hasnt seen her son since he left Iraq years ago.
Whats happening today is a hideously stupid way of going about things.
The State Department today said that “obviously things went wrong” in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters -- comments that came in the wake of an ABC News report that said officials by policy generally do not check social media postings of applicants due to civil liberties concerns and therefore would not have seen purported evidence of Tashfeen Malik’s radicalization online.
“It’s difficult to say exactly what [went wrong] and how, but for an individual to be able to come into this country – one who the FBI has maintained had terrorist tendencies or affiliations or sympathies at least for a couple years, and then to propagate an attack like that on our own soil, obviously, I think it’s safe to say there’s going to be lessons learned here,” State Department spokesperson John Kirby told reporters.
Fearing a civil liberties backlash and "bad public relations" for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.
"During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process," John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.
One current and one former senior counter-terrorism official confirmed Cohen's account about the refusal of DHS to change its policy about the public social media posts of all foreign applicants.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
or added to a no fly list...