Thread: Passing Through (The Politics Of Trump's Refugee Ban)

My thoughts on the recent EO:

As most of you probably know, a federal judge has blocked portions of President Trump’s executive order pertaining to refugees from 7 Muslim majority nations. Josh Blackman has published a good summary of what this injunction accomplishes, as well as a copy of the temporary restraining order itself. According to reports, it applies to a few hundred foreigners who were either on American soil or on their way to the United States before the EO was issued. Although these individuals have temporary avoided the fate of the character portrayed by Tom Hanks in The Terminal, it’s worth noting that there are much bigger issues at stake in this debate.

The open borders know nothings have deftly exploited the ignorance of large swathes of the American public to score a public relations victory against a man whom they’ve impotently warred against for over a year. Ironically, one of the refugees Democratic partisans claimed to be rescuing was able to succinctly explain why our new President’s immigration policies were in fact pretty reasonable. Beyond the simple observation that this executive order is not a ban on Muslim refugees, we have to confront the truly bizarre notion that our current refugee resettlement policy is somehow beneficial to American citizens. While some armchair analysts on social media have made the assertion that this is not the point of refugee resettlement-a point on which we agree-others have claimed that not importing tens of thousands of Muslim refugees from abroad poses a risk of future terrorism. By this token, Japan-which has a de facto ban on Muslim immigration-should be as unlivable as Afghanistan or Pakistan. Or, at the very least, have as many terrorist attacks as Turkey...

President Trump said in the recent ABC interview that muslims in these countries are angry now, what is a little more anger. Allowing them to come to the United States in mass to institute their Sharia is not going to make them love us.

Refugee resettlement is about dollars per head. Whether it is Catholic Charities or some other refugee organization, they profit from resettlement and the taxpayers are robbed again to help foreign citizens.

The fact that we take people the United Nations tells us to is ridiculous.

Exactly. VOLAGS are at the heart of this problem. We need to cut off their funding. No refugees means no dollars for these organizations.