Posted on 12/09/2015 2:55:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
When was the last time you saw the House of Representatives pass a piece of legislation more significant than naming a post office with a majority of Democrats voting alongside the Republicans? How about a bill that passed by a 407 to 19 margin? Well that’s the vote tally from a proposal to cut off most waivers for visitors hoping to come to the United States without a visa. And that applies to our closest allies, too, if they have visited terror infested nations. (Politico)
An overwhelming majority of House lawmakers voted Tuesday to tighten restrictions on individuals entering the U.S without visas from ally nations — the chamber’s strongest border control move yet after Islamic terrorists killed 130 people in Paris.
Passing the measure may give Republican leaders more space to maneuver on a must-pass government spending bill. Many conservatives want to add provisions to the omnibus that would bar Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the U.S. until tighter vetting restrictions are in place.
But GOP leaders hope that Tuesday’s stand-alone visa measure will satiate the Republican appetite for action on the Syrian issue. The bill would stop individuals from traveling to the U.S. from certain countries without a visa if they’ve previously traveled to countries like Iraq or Syria that are known terrorism hotbeds.
Yesterday we had a rather lengthy and hotly contested discussion about the limits of the government’s ability to modify and twist immigration laws. (Spoiler alert: there are almost no limits.) Fine tuning like this is a no brainer and you’ll notice that nobody is screaming about it or setting their hair on fire. After all, we’re talking about ending the granting of exceptions to the rules and letting people in the door without a visa which would normally be required. But that’s still a “restriction” of sorts, right? It represents a change to the normal way we’ve been doing business for quite some time.
We’ve had more radical exceptions in the past, though. Front Page Magazine reminds us that way back in the day when I was sailing around in a Navy uniform, Jimmy Carter flatly cut off any and all immigration from Iran unless they were basically fighting against their own government.
Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He’s just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.
During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned from entering the United States unless they oppose the Shiite Islamist regime or had a medical emergency.
Here’s Jimmy “Hitler” Carter saying it back in 1980.
Fourth, the Secretary of Treasury [State] and the Attorney General will invalidate all visas issued to Iranian citizens for future entry into the United States, effective today. We will not reissue visas, nor will we issue new visas, except for compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest of our own country requires. This directive will be interpreted very strictly.
Apparently barring people from a terrorist country is not against “our values” after all. It may even be “who we are”. Either that or Carter was a racist monster just like Trump.
There’s actually very little that the government can’t do when it comes to immigration policy. The big difference among the commentariat just seems to be a question of who’s proposing it at any given moment. For the record, here are the 19 members who voted against ending the waivers:
Bass
Clarke (NY)
Conyers
Dingell
Ellison
Farr
Grijalva
Honda
Johnson (GA)
Kildee
Lawrence
Lee
McDermott
Pocan
Schakowsky
Takano
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Wilson (FL)
“Waters, Maxine”
Shows how much she cares about black opinion polls. 96% want to stop muslim immigration.
Usual suspects - no surprises... They could stay home and we could do their voting for them as they are that transparent..
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, the president 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.
That pretty much is game, set, match regarding this issue. It never was an issue. The GOPe, the MSM, the DNC...all of them are just displaying their ignorance IMHO, and their agendas.
See:
The Trump effect without even being there!!
I see Hank “Guam” Johnson on the list.
Given how broken our visa approval system obviously is, this is far too little.
Lol! He is already defacto President.
Tashfeen was required to be interviewed by law, but apparently she wasn't interviewed. Who's going to jail over this? No one.
I know he’s a democrat and all, but I just can’t understand how somebody can be that impossibly stupid.
That dust-headed oaf reminds me of the clown I’m unfortunate to have in my own state, Ernie Chambers. (for non-Nebraskans: this is the lunatic who literally tried to sue God in recent history and usually appears in sessions dressed like a bum in line at Wal-Mart while everyone else is properly attired)
We’ve been making jokes about sending him back to Bert for years but three guesses which group votes for this useless food-tube like clockwork.
Mainly because Visa overstays are rampant in this Country and the Government has no way of reliably tracking the overstays. They come over, disappear and the vetting process is unreliable. Case in fact is the SB biotch that did the shooting.
Shut it ALL down until we can FIX our broken immigration system. A moratorium of 5 years to get our house in order, including the border secured and illegals deported before we open up immigration again.
Bump
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