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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 08:40 AM Sep 2017

Trump: Travel ban should be 'far larger, tougher and more specific'

Source: Politico




By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 09/15/2017 07:25 AM EDT

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration’s travel ban “should be far larger, tougher and more specific” than it is, seemingly blaming political correctness for a watered-down version of his original executive action.

“The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific-but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!” Trump tweeted Friday.

The Supreme Court this week allowed the Trump administration to maintain its ban on refugees. The justices ruled in favor of the administration on Tuesday, blocking a lower court ruling that would have moderated the ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the U.S. before the end of October.

The high court, however, will hear arguments on the legality of the administration’s ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees anywhere in the world on Oct. 10.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/15/trump-travel-ban-tougher-242760?lo=ap_d1

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Trump: Travel ban should be 'far larger, tougher and more specific' (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
Larger and more specific? How does that work? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2017 #1
will the Muslim Ban extend to Europe and Asia now? ProudMNDemocrat Sep 2017 #2
Okay then, specifically include Saudi Arabia rocktivity Sep 2017 #3
exactly...... dhill926 Sep 2017 #4
Wasn't he claiming before that the ban was only supposed to be for 90 days until NYC Liberal Sep 2017 #5

muriel_volestrangler

(101,326 posts)
1. Larger and more specific? How does that work?
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 08:46 AM
Sep 2017

Does it matter that half of what the US president says makes no sense?

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
2. will the Muslim Ban extend to Europe and Asia now?
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 08:49 AM
Sep 2017

It is best Trump does not travel outside the US for fear of stoking more trouble than he has already.

rocktivity

(44,577 posts)
3. Okay then, specifically include Saudi Arabia
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 10:08 AM
Sep 2017

when the 9/11 attackers came from, and where Trump has business interests! Most of the countries in his ban are not on record as having engaged in terrorism against the U.S.


rocktivity

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
5. Wasn't he claiming before that the ban was only supposed to be for 90 days until
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 11:29 AM
Sep 2017

they could "figure out what the hell is going on" and implement some process for "extreme vetting"?

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