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Bannon & Miller have let it slip: it's about population/demographic reshaping, not counterterrorism
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In leaked document, the case for Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ takes another huge hit
Here’s the real reason for the delay: The Trump administration can’t solve the problem that has always bedeviled this policy, which is that there isn’t any credible national security rationale for it. Unlike on the campaign trail, when you’re governing, you actually have to have justification for what you’re proposing, or you often run into trouble.
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As I have reported, the evidence is mounting that Bannon and Miller view the ban as part of a much broader, long-term demographic-reshaping project. Miller let slip in a recent interview that the ban isn’t just about national security, but also about protecting U.S. workers from foreign competition. And the Los Angeles Times reports that Bannon and Miller have privately argued that the ban is in keeping with the need to combat immigration by people who “will not assimilate”:
Inside the West Wing, the two men have pushed an ominous view of refugee and immigration flows, telling other policymakers that if large numbers of Muslims are allowed to enter the U.S., parts of American cities will begin to replicate marginalized immigrant neighborhoods in France, Germany and Belgium that have been home to plotters of terrorist attacks in recent years, according to a White House aide familiar with the discussions.
Thus, the ban is of a piece with the long-term goals of protecting American workers from economic competition and preventing European-style immigrant communities (which incubate terror plotters) from developing here. Bannon and Miller could argue that these arguments are partly about national security, too. But this is a case that centers on long-term demographics. That does not support the administration’s case for the immediate ban, since DHS has concluded that “extreme vetting” can’t screen out the threat of radicalization later. If anything, those larger motives undermine the case for the ban, by throwing its stated short-term motive into doubt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/03/in-leaked-document-the-case-for-trumps-muslim-ban-takes-another-huge-hit/?utm_term=.2092c3fabeb6
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Who would willingly embrace a culture of heart disease and illiteracy?
Maybe if you had traveled outside the country as much as I have, you'd realize that. And no, as I said, American culture may be hillbilly heaven in your area but not in any of the varied neighborhoods on the east and west coasts or the Midwest, I've lived in.
If American culture is an "hodgepodge of other cultures" it just might have something to do with its being a millennium or two YOUNGER than the originating countries of the cultures to which you refer.
That being the case, I'll take it over the monarchies and theocracies of the middle east any day, and I'm quite sure you would too.
