Thank you @HumanTon.
A partial list of those who are complacent and complicit.
You can also refer to this spreadsheet
Just in case you had any doubt about who wants to fuck over green card holders:
A google doc tracking Senator responses to the ban. Grain of salt, I got it off Facebook, but it seems legit.
(Hopefully link is viewable for folks despite saying ‘Sheet is private’)
After this fiasco, I’ve officially cut off all plans of ever trying to talk to my Trump-supporting friends and family. No visits, no phone calls, nothing.
Fuck all of them.
So, should we be terrified at the incompetence, or grateful? It seems a toss up.
Washington power couple McCain and Graham come out against the EO, joining Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, and Ben Sasse as Republicans in the Senate who have spoken against.
STATEMENT BY SENATORS McCAIN & GRAHAM ON EXECUTIVE ORDER ON IMMIGRATION
Washington, D.C. *– U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the following statement today on the President’s executive order on immigration:
“Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.
“It is clear from the confusion at our airports across the nation that President Trump’s executive order was not properly vetted. We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security.
“Such a hasty process risks harmful results. We should not stop green-card holders from returning to the country they call home. We should not stop those who have served as interpreters for our military and diplomats from seeking refuge in the country they risked their lives to help. And we should not turn our backs on those refugees who have been shown through extensive vetting to pose no demonstrable threat to our nation, and who have suffered unspeakable horrors, most of them women and children.
“Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. At this very moment, American troops are fighting side-by-side with our Iraqi partners to defeat ISIL. But this executive order bans Iraqi pilots from coming to military bases in Arizona to fight our common enemies. Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred. This executive order sends a signal, intended or not, that America does not want Muslims coming into our country. That is why we fear this executive order may do more to help terrorist recruitment than improve our security.”
Forgot to mention earlier, that the stay issued by the federal court only applied to those already in the country (being detained). So, when that statement said prohibited travel would still be prohibited, it wasn’t really a contradiction.
I’m going with both.
DHS is ignoring the court order.
So our first Constitutional crisis happened about a week in.
I think there is confusion here. It seems like the court is talking about those already here… that there wasn’t a judgment overall… like misguided said.
Court issued a stay.
[quote]Early Sunday, federal judges in Boston put a seven-day hold on implementing Trump’s order.
“Customs and Border Protection shall notify airlines that have flights arriving at Logan Airport of this Order and the fact that individuals on these flights will not be detained or returned based solely on the basis of the Executive Order,” the judges Allison Burroughs and Judith Dein wrote in their decision.[/quote]
A common theme. Customs and Border Protection is defying court orders and the 6th Amendment.
Edit: CBP is part of DHS.
John Donne was wrong about all the GOP scumbags behind this ban, not to mention their willing and eager flunkies in ICE and DHS. Their deaths would not diminish me.
@clay linked in the other thread that Angela Merkel had explained to Trump the obligations of the Geneva convention yesterday. I wonder what a legal challenge on those grounds would require…probably not worth pursuing in the short term because of the complexity of international law (I.e. Getting any sort of relief via that mechanism would take too long, I am guessing), but I have to think there have to be repercussions for this sort of thing at some point.
For God’s sake, fix the “its” in the thread title.
Someone. Please.
Let us not embolden the forces of chaos and discord any more than we must.
https://twitter.com/DavidKenner/status/825775771776086016
Hey thanks for helping us fight ISIS, now go fuck yourself.
Meanwhile ISIS is literally cheering.
Sure seems as if the people around Trump (assuming, as is likely, he’s just the kid in the candy store he seems to be) are actually hoping for pure chaos so they can institute the whole martial law type thing the left was venting about during Bush I. Maybe they weren’t so paranoid after all.