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http://www.vox.com/2017/1/28/14428190/trump-immigration-refugee-steve-bannonThis CNN report shows what an utter mess Trumps immigration order rollout was
Updated by Andrew Prokopan
Jan 28, 2017, 11:01pm EST
Trumps sweeping executive order on immigrants has already led to a great deal of chaotic fallout and were now learning that the process of putting the order together was equally chaotic.
A new report from CNNs Evan Perez and Pamela Brown finds that the White House specifically pushed to have green card holders included in the order, even after Homeland Security offered a different legal interpretation of the order after the order had already been issued.
The White House overruled that guidance overnight, according to officials familiar with the rollout. That order came from the President's inner circle, led by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon. Their decision held that, on a case by case basis, DHS could allow green card holders to enter the US.
Steve Bannon is the chief White House strategist and former Breitbart chief, while Stephen Miller is a former Jeff Sessions aide who now serves as the top policy aide in Trumps White House. And according to this report it is the two of them Trumps two Steves, as he calls them who are deciding how this executive order text should be interpreted, and holding the fates of hundreds of thousands of green card holders in their hands.
CNN also reports that the Homeland Security Secretary and his departments leadership only saw the final details shortly before the order was finalized. The White House didnt seek feedback from the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel usually an ordinary part of the process either.
The story makes me wonder why in the world Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is still serving in the government rather than just resigning. Clearly Trumps team made no effort to take him seriously and made no real effort to ask for his input on this monumentally important matter.
What is clear is that Steve Bannon is running the show in our government for the moment the same Steve Bannon who once bragged that Breitbart was the platform for the alt-right, and who once told the Daily Beasts Ronald Radosh that he wanted to destroy the state, bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of todays establishment. Read more from Perez and Browns report at CNN.com.
flygal
(3,231 posts)how is that legally possible?
lark
(23,061 posts)Nazis go home and leave the rest of us alone!
flygal
(3,231 posts)lark
(23,061 posts)He won't destroy NATO or EU and won't give Russia everything they ever wanted. AND if it can be proved that Pence knew and colluded to take $$ from Russia for the campaign, he's out too.
uponit7771
(90,302 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,872 posts)They (MSM) still haven't gotten the message.
uponit7771
(90,302 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)be more dangerous than one who is still here? They aren't even trying to justify.
yardwork
(61,539 posts)He appears to be running the White House. Where is Congress?
Hekate
(90,557 posts)dlk
(11,514 posts)The Republicans have long stood for racism and bigotry, and are just getting started with their extremist agenda. The zealots have taken over our government and we will all pay the price. Steve Bannon is not the least bit qualified to be in his position and puts the entire country at risk. Meanwhile, the establishment Republicans are perfectly willing to get in bed with him (or Putin it seems) to push their anti-democratic agenda forward, shredding the Constitution and our government in the process.