Prioritizes refugee claims on the basis of religious persecution, so long as the applicant belongs to a religion that is a minority in their country of origin. This provision would allow the Trump White House to prioritize Christians from the Middle East over Muslims. In fiscal year 2016, the US accepted 37,521 Christian and 38,901 Muslim refugees. Since 2001, the US has accepted nearly 400,000 Christian refugees and 279,000 Muslim refugees OWNED AGAIN, BigTrumppp.
Anything that casts the United States in a bad light should be considered carefully, especially one that you correctly surmise will not be effective.
One instance does not justify the policy. 9/11 by itself would not justify banning Saudi citizens. We haven't banned lawnmowers despite being more dangerous to the average american.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/terrorism-immigration-risk-analysis#full Conclusion Foreign-born terrorism on U.S. soil is a low-probability event that imposes high costs on its victims despite relatively small risks and low costs on Americans as a whole.68 From 1975 through 2015, the average chance of dying in an attack by a foreign-born terrorist on U.S. soil was 1 in 3,609,709 a year. For 30 of those 41 years, no Americans were killed on U.S. soil in terrorist attacks caused by foreigners or immigrants. Foreign-born terrorism is a hazard to American life, liberty, and private property, but it is manageable given the huge economic benefits of immigration and the small costs of terrorism. The United States government should continue to devote resources to screening immigrants and foreigners for terrorism or other threats, but large policy changes like an immigration or tourist moratorium would impose far greater costs than benefits.
Everyone is being over dramatic which isn't at all surprising. Maybe all of this nonsense will finally force the government to fix our terrible and inefficient naturalization laws. Also, just an observation but I'm amazed on how people can get so fired up about alien refugees but American vets, homeless, drug addicts, don't get near the same level of love and attention. Why does that empathy seem to appear and disappear at will. Makes me think there is a political element to it more than just caring about people.
When Trump outlaws homelessness or ends the VA, you'll see the same response. And people have been rallying around drug reform for decades. This is outrage at an outrageous policy enacted by the leader of the free world.
They should be getting attention. Especially vets. If we put our resources into helping vets instead of building a wall and other such nonsense, this country would be a much better, happier place. As an American citizen that did not serve my country, I would be ecstatic to see the country take better care of those that did.
I was hinting at examples from the US. The US is a whole different animal because it is so far away from those countries, and you can't enter it, undocumented, by land.
American vets commit a lot of acts of violence and are frequently involved in mass murders. We should put them on watch lists. #trump But seriously....if you don't get that America is fundamentally a country made up of immigrants and refugees then I don't know what to say.
I guess that's possible but I just don't see the same empathy and caring. Yea but we don't, we won't, and we really never have. Why doesn't this country or Americans who live here care about their vets like they care about alien refugees? Hell, abandoned pets get more love from American citizens than Vets do.
America is made up of Americans and American only exists because of folks like our Vets and no one has ever marched for them like they are for these alien refugees. That's the most embarrassing thing.
Acting on situation in Berlin makes about as much sense as Germany building a wall to stop Mexicans from illegal entering their country.
People would care. People are already protesting over anti-homeless laws. https://www.denverite.com/protest-s...mp-outside-denver-city-county-building-23781/ I agree completely with this. When I see a younger person (20-30 year old) on the street begging for money, my first thought is these are homeless vets. Why should we spend billions of dollars on a wall or a new aircraft when the men and women of the armed forces give their lives and then are left without any future prospects once their service is complete. @ipaman you're getting off topic. If you want to talk about how the US treats its veterans I'd be happy to engage you in a new thread.
You do understand that America was effectively created by refugees and immigrants, right? And America is not simply made up of "Americans". Nearly 42 million people living in America are foreign born. Beyond that we have somewhere around 35 million 1st and 2nd generation immigrants. You're living in another world if you don't recognize this and if you don't recognize that this is what makes America great. Also, I think we spend about $160 billion on veterans a year. True it is done in a horribly inefficient fashion, but Trump ran on fixing the military and helping vets. He won. So we will see what he does about it. I do agree that vets need help and the VA is a train wreck. I wish he would have made a major push to help vets first rather than worrying about complete non-issues like this refugee/immigration bs.
Germany had a wall... some guy named Reagan challenged them to "tear it down." And here we go trying to build one...
