Trump's executive order: Amateur hour at the White House?

[nitpicker]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38791752

Trump's executive order: Amateur hour at the White House?

Anthony Zurcher
North America reporter

29 January 2017

From the section US & Canada

It's only one week into Donald Trump's presidency, and he already has his first "heckuva job" moment. For those who don't remember, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, President George W Bush publicly praised his emergency management head, Michael Brown, for doing a "heckuva job" with recovery efforts. That comment was hung around the president's neck like an anvil, as flood waters swamped parts of New Orleans and the city descended into chaos. It started a public approval downward spiral that led to sweeping Democratic victories in the 2006 mid-term elections.

History will judge the long-term impact of Mr Trump's Friday afternoon immigration order, but his early praise for its implementation will not easily be forgotten. "It's working out very nicely," Mr Trump said in a brief response to a question on Saturday afternoon. "You see it in the airports, you see it all over. It's working out very nicely, and we are going to have a very, very strict ban, and we are going to have extreme vetting, which we should have had in this country for many years."

On the ground at major US airports, things weren't going quite so nicely, however. Immigration officials were having a difficult time implementing Mr Trump's order after receiving conflicting instructions on who to bar from entry into the US - and what to do with them once they were held. And as the day progressed, and word spread of the detentions, crowds of protesters at international terminals grew from dozens to hundreds to thousands.

While on the campaign trail, it was easy for Mr Trump to roundly decry the US immigration system as broken and make a general call for bans and moratoriums. As president, however, his team has had to fill in the details - and it seems they faced some difficulty translating his pre-election rhetoric into policy.

Mr Trump's Friday afternoon executive order reportedly was crafted without consulting legal aides and enacted over the objection of homeland security officials, who balked at including permanent US residents in the ban. This made for an awkward scene Saturday night at a New York courthouse, where government attorneys had to defend measures that were creating chaos at airports across the nation.
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[Renew Deal]

1. Trump doesn't know what it means to be president. He only knows what he thinks it means

It's all a big act. And the worst hasn't happened yet

[delisen]

2. Not Amateur Hour. This is a takeover attempt by executive branch of govt being disguised

as incompetency and just fulfilling campaign promises. Reince Priebus is not incompetent.

He is lending cover-as log as he is in there many people will still think there is someone who will keep things from getting out of hand. The fact that he is still there and not speaking out against the actions since inauguration means he is a willing participant.