Government reveals over 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban

[herding cats]

Source: Washington Post

Over 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Trump’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, an attorney for the government revealed in Alexandria federal court Friday.

The number came out during a hearing in a lawsuit filed by attorneys for two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport on Saturday and were quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia in response to the president’s executive order.

The government attorney could not say how many people with visas were sent back to their home countries from Dulles in response to the travel ban.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/government-reveals-over-100000-visas-revoked-due-to-travel-ban/2017/02/03/7d529eec-ea2c-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?utm_term=.9397e4a1f204

[C_U_L8R]

1. And not a single alledged 'terrorist'

What kind of morons are these Trumps?

[mnhtnbb]

2. The kind who care not a wit for other people.

They don't believe in due process. They don't trust the State Department (under Obama) to
have adequately vetted people before giving them visas. They don't believe in rational thought.

In a word, a$$holes. Their lives revolve around money and themselves.

[starshine00]

6. someone posted on here yesterday the reasons for those countries

all leading back to, surprise, political aims of Putin.

So apparently it is the same old song and dance, pretend to give the people what they voted for, because they are so gullible which in the end means do what you want as long as it can be diguised as something else.

[KittyWampus]

7. The kind getting ready to start ethnic cleansing

[TomCADem]

3. Yup, not just an inconvenience...

...

[Sunlei]

4. A judge just made a permanent ruling that green card holders are exempt from any actions.

[BruceWane]

5. Seems counterproductive.....

From the story....
"For people such as the brothers, Tareq and Ammar Aqel Mohammed Aziz, who tried to enter the country over the weekend with valid visas and were sent back, the government appears to be attempting a case-by-case reprieve. They and other plaintiffs in lawsuits around the country are being offered new visas and the opportunity to come to the United States in exchange for dropping their suits."

So the US is granting entry to anyone with the resources to 1)sue the federal government and 2)afford another plane ticket to the US. Doesn't seem like a terribly effective way to weed out terrorists. Seems like terrorists would be far more likely to have financial backing than actual refugees. To me, anyway.

The federal government knows they'll lose any case that actually goes to litigation - they're just using the process as a weapon. This is Trump's standard practice in business, now writ into federal policy.

[meadowlander]

8. I'd like to know what % are student visa holders to top tier universities.

That shouldn't be hard to work out from the information available.