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Obama selected the list of Muslim countries in Trump’s executive order

Jan 31, 2017 9:14 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The list of concerned countries that the Trump administration outlined in the order is based on the one signed into law by the former Obama administration. So, it looks like the Obama White House set the groundwork

Clearly there was a recognized homeland security problem for some time: the potential hazard of allowing in Muslim immigrants and refugees from the seven identified countries, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen. But when Obama selected this “blacklist,” few knew. Why? Because of the media’s agenda. It was okay for the Obama Democrats to introduce this list, but it is not okay for Trump to follow through.

The Obama administration also “stopped processing Iraqi visas for six months in 2011,” which turned out to be a good call, as “al-Qaeda operatives feigned refugee status to get relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky.”

The “Islamophobia” propaganda machine is running over-time against Trump in the face of longtime, ongoing and escalating threat; so he will remain a target of a corrupted media and leftist alliance no matter what the mounting facts are.

“Friendly Reminder: Obama Selected The List Of Muslim Countries in Trump’s Executive Order”, Town Hall, by Matt Vespa, January 29, 2017:

As the Left and some Republicans lose their minds over President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on immigration, let’s not forget that the list of concerned countries that the Trump administration outlined in the order is based on the one signed into law by the former Obama administration. So, it looks like the Obama White House set the groundwork (viaMic News):

According to the draft copy of Trump’s executive order, the countries whose citizens are barred entirely from entering the United States is based on a bill that Obama signed into law in December 2015.

Obama signed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act as part of an omnibus spending bill. The legislation restricted access to the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens from 38 countries who are visiting the United States for less than 90 days to enter without a visa.

Though outside groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and NIAC Action — the sister organization of the National Iranian American Council — opposed the act, the bipartisan bill passed through Congress with little pushback.

At the initial signing of the restrictions, foreigners who would normally be deemed eligible for a visa waiver were denied if they had visited Iran, Syria, Sudan or Iraq in the past five years or held dual citizenship from one of those countries.

In February 2016, the Obama administration added Libya, Somali and Yemen to the list of countries one could not have visited — but allowed dual citizens of those countries who had not traveled there access to the Visa Waiver Program. Dual citizens of Syria, Sudan, Iraq and Iran are still ineligible, however.

So, in a nutshell, Obama restricted visa waivers for those seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen — and now, Trump is looking to bar immigration and visitors from the same list of countries.

Yet, I don’t remember the Left freaking out over this. I certainly don’t remember them going indiscriminately insane when the Obama White House stopped processing Iraqi visas for six months in 2011 when—surprise! —Al-Qaeda operatives feigned refugee status to get relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky. And yes, some of the visa applicants who were screwed over worked as intelligence assets and interpreters for the U.S. military, according to ABC News. But remember, there was a Democrat in the Oval Office, so it was okay at the time.

Here’s the text of the order.

Via The Atlantic this is what it will and will not do. Most importantly, the publication adds that this technically isn’t a Muslim ban, as people from Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, can still visit the country:

Who is affected?

For 120 days, the order bars the entry of any refugee who is awaiting resettlement in the U.S. It also prohibits all Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. until further notice. Additionally, it bans the citizens of seven countries—Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen—from entering the U.S. on any visa category. This appears to include those individuals who are permanent residents of the U.S. (green-card holders) who may have been traveling overseas to visit family or for work—though their applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis, a senior administration official said Saturday.

[…]

Is this a Muslim ban?

Technically no. The ban includes seven majority Muslim countries, but by no means are these states the most populous Muslim countries, nor are they among the top sources of Muslim immigration to the U.S., nor have they produced terrorists in the same numbers as other Muslim countries not on the list.

So, it’s not really a Muslim ban and the nations that Trump listed are the ones that were drafted by Obama……

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Comments

  1. nicu says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 9:51 am

    Correct Michael 🙂

    I wish all these Hollywood celebrities cone to Europe and ride a bus at night and go out without body guards – I wonder how they would speak then ???

    • Guest says

      Jan 31, 2017 at 2:23 pm

      If they try the Subway in a German city, they might be kicked down the elevator stairs or onto the train tracks by charming ‘refugees’ as several people have been by now.

  2. john spielman says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 10:06 am

    SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED Saudi Arabia! and that should be a permanent ban for all Salafists/ whahabists

    • maghan says

      Feb 1, 2017 at 4:00 am

      Rumor is that a Saudi money-man paid his Harvard tuition and, the non-presence of Pakistan, due to rumors that the ex-POTUS had a Pakistani boyfriend.

  3. Angemon says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 10:08 am

    So, it’s not really a Muslim ban and the nations that Trump listed are the ones that were drafted by Obama…

    To add to that, Obama, the Nobel Prize winner, dropped metric tons of bombs on muslim-majority countries and funded abortion clinics abroad, thus killing an untold number of non-white babies while Trump is wanting to do away with Obama’s foreign policies. Just goes to prove that, whatever the reasons are behind the anti-Trump riots, they’re not based on facts and logic.

    • Guest says

      Jan 31, 2017 at 2:25 pm

      I’m pro choice. Just putting that here so progressives/liberals dipping a toe in the counterjihadist movement can see we don’t all share the same opinions.

  4. Sam says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    Obama, America hating traitor, can not do wrong in the eye of the American people. Trump, trying to protect Americans from evil cult members of Islam, can not do anything right.

    Something is very, very, very wrong with this picture.

    • Anne Smith says

      Feb 1, 2017 at 7:58 am

      Yes – its the influence of the MSM

  5. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    So the only thing the noisy leftists should rather complain about is that Trump “stole” their crafted list made by their semi-god, and do not complain that he dared to execute that list now. But, not the first time, leftists are masters in hypocrisy: If that same list would be executed by Obama, they will NEVER protest against it (not that I would ever believe him capable to do it).

    • maghan says

      Feb 1, 2017 at 4:04 am

      But lifting the waiver is tantamount to Obama’s EO. Once denied a visa, one can reapply only after some months.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 11:44 pm

    Obama selected the list of Muslim countries in Trump’s executive order
    …………………….

    We know that–but how many hysterics, including those in the MSM, will even notice?

  7. Rick says

    Feb 1, 2017 at 12:01 am

    How dare you bring up facts Robert….????!!!! Thanks for what you do and please continue to educate us… Good job and God bless?????!!!!!

  8. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 1, 2017 at 1:14 am

    The photo – is that cocaine residue on his lower lip?

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