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To: bobsunshine

Why would the text of President Trump’s Executive Order suspending travel visas be readily available on CNN (HERE), New York Times (HERE), Wall Street Journal (HERE), but not on White House page (HERE)?

I don’t think it’s accidental. The limiting Visa program was President Obama’s action, not President Trump.

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If you review the actual text of the executive order (copied below in full) what you will immediately notice is the order doesn’t specify ANY countries to be included in the Visa suspension (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen).

President Trump is not suspending visas from countries his team selected, they are simply suspending visa approval from countries President Obama selected. Additionally, Trump is suspending ALL visa applications from those countries – nothing to do with Muslim applications.

• In 2013 President Obama suspended refugees from Iraq for six months. • In 2015 Congress passed, and Obama signed, a law restricting visas from states of concern; • and in 2016 Obama’s DHS, Jeh Johnson, expanded those restrictions. …. all President Trump is doing is taking the same action as Obama 2013, and applying Visa restrictions to the nation states Obama selected in 2015 and 2016.

From the Executive order:

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8 posted on 01/28/2017 8:23:34 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: onyx

Would the wars of Independence have been won if we had been forced to obey the ‘niceties’ dictated by Marxist judges and a corrupt media ? The clear answer is no!

Trump should declare judges who have opposed him (despite his constitutional authority and democratic legitimacy) enemies of the Republic and order their arrest .


14 posted on 01/29/2017 7:52:39 AM PST by WashingtonFire
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To: LucyT

Ping to article:

President Trump is not suspending visas from countries his team selected, they are simply suspending visa approval from countries President Obama selected.

Additionally, Trump is suspending ALL visa applications from those countries – nothing to do with Muslim applications.

• In 2013 President Obama suspended refugees from Iraq for six months.

• In 2015 Congress passed, and Obama signed, a law restricting visas from states of concern;

• and in 2016 Obama’s DHS, Jeh Johnson, expanded those restrictions. …. all President Trump is doing is taking the same action as Obama 2013, and applying Visa restrictions to the nation states Obama selected in 2015 and 2016.


17 posted on 01/29/2017 8:41:26 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: onyx

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3518683/posts?page=8#8

Onyx, many thanks for this; not only does President Trump play 3-d chess, he also does jiu jitsu, turning the adversary attacks back on the attacker.


19 posted on 01/29/2017 9:49:49 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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