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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 12:28 PM Jan 2017

Boston Globe's Michael Cohen: Shame on you, Mr. President

This relates to DT's order on immigration.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/01/29/trump-immigration-order-shame-you-president/3WuTOdNBAOutfbzC1wIxOL/story.html

First, it will do absolutely nothing to keep America safe from terrorism. Refugees from Syria and Iraq are being banned from entering this country even though refugees from there have never committed a single terrorist attack in the United States. You are far more likely to be crushed by falling furniture, struck by lightning, or shot by a toddler than you are a refugee.


Secondly, Trump’s executive order would ban immigration from seven countries. It doesn’t include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, or Turkey. This is strange for two reasons: Individuals from those countries have killed more than 3,000 Americans in terrorist attacks and President Trump has business relationship in all four countries. He doesn’t have any business connections in the seven nations from which immigration is suspended.

SNIP

Trump’s immigration order is pointless, counter-productive, and wrong. Period. But that it would also undermine the national attribute that make so many Americans proud to be citizens of this country is unforgivable.

Shame on you, President Trump. And shame on any American who refuses to condemn this.

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Boston Globe's Michael Cohen: Shame on you, Mr. President (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2017 OP
THIS........... MyOwnPeace Jan 2017 #1

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
1. THIS...........
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 01:21 PM
Jan 2017

needs to be read by all "TRUE" Americans, not the phony Tea Party ass-hats who got us to this point!

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