There was no “Muslim ban,” but a ban on travel from several Muslim and non-Muslim countries that would not or could not provide adequate information about those wishing to enter the country. To end this will mean that people about whom nothing is known will be able to enter the country freely, often from jihadi hotspots and other areas where criminal activity is rife. What could possibly go wrong? Sit back and watch, and hope you’re not among those who will be victimized.
“Border wall halt, Muslim ban reversal among Biden’s first executive orders,” by Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, January 20, 2021:
SAN DIEGO — For the opening salvo of his presidency, few expected Joe Biden to be so far-reaching on immigration.
A raft of executive orders signed Wednesday undoes many of his predecessor’s hallmark initiatives, such as halting work on a border wall with Mexico, lifting a travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries and reversing plans to exclude people in the country illegally from the 2020 census.
Six of Biden’s 17 orders, memorandums and proclamations deal with immigration. He ordered efforts to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program known as DACA that has shielded hundreds of thousands of people who came to the U.S. as children from deportation since it was introduced in 2012. He also extended temporary legal status to Liberians who fled civil war and the Ebola outbreak to June 2022.
The Homeland Security Department announced a 100-day moratorium on deportations “for certain noncitizens,” starting Friday, after Biden revoked one of Trump’s earliest executive orders making anyone in the country illegally a priority for deportations.
That’s not it. Biden’s most ambitious proposal, unveiled Wednesday, is an immigration bill that would give legal status and a path to citizenship to anyone in the United States before Jan. 1 — an estimated 11 million people — and reduce the time that family members must wait outside the United States for green cards.
Taken together, Biden’s moves represent a sharp U-turn after four years of relentless strikes against immigration, captured most vividly by the separation of thousands of children from their parents under a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal border crossings. Former President Donald Trump’s administration also took hundreds of other steps to enhance enforcement, limit eligibility for asylum and cut legal immigration.
The new president dispelled any belief that his policies would resemble those of former President Barack Obama, who promised a sweeping bill his first year in office but waited five years while logging more than 2 million deportations.
Eager to avoid a rush on the border, Biden aides signaled that it will take time to unwind some of Trump’s border policies, which include making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. Homeland Security said that on Thursday it would stop sending asylum-seekers back to Mexico to wait for hearings but that people already returned should stay put for now….
very old white guy says
If they can’t ki11 us with the flu they will work hard in other ways to achieve their objectives.
mortimer says
The terrorists who slip in will kill Americans on their own soil. The governments first job is to protect citizens’ lives from such attacks. FAIL on day one.
Lookmann says
Begun the dance of the Devils.
God save USA . (and rest of the civilized world too)
Jayell says
‘Biden lifts travel ban on people from jihadi hotspots that he falsely described as ‘Muslim ban’….’
Well, ‘jihadis’ are ipso facto muslims because ‘jihad’ is a specific major plank of islamic dogma to which all muslims are supposed to aspire. So therefore he’s clearly not wrong about the ban specifically targeting muslims. But, if he has any concern for the safety of Americans, he’s obviously completely wrong about lifting the ban for exactly the same reason.
pragmatist says
With the traitorous Ilhan Omar and her cohorts, in the party this will only get worse.
mortimer says
Agree, it’s just the beginning of aiding and abetting the jihadists.
gravenimage says
The ban never targeted all Muslims–it focused on state sponsors of terror.
pragmatist says
Presumably rejoining the one sided Iran deal, entered into by Obama and that idiot Kerry will be next.
Veracious_one says
another nail in America’s coffin
Infidel says
Awesome! We can become just like Europe and admit in more Ilhan Omars and Sayeed Farook’s (I know, I know, that Pakistan was not on the list, even though they should have been) into this country. And the next time a jihadist attack kills somebody, we can put that down to ‘Covid’!
And even while locking us down or shutting down restaurants and gyms, they’ll happily ignore ‘Covid’ restrictions while allowing people across the border
Thank you, Mitch, Chief Justice John Roberts and other ‘Republicans’ for delivering us into this mess! You deserve to go extinct along w/ the Dems!!
Check Burry says
It will not end well maybe never end, the first two steps down the slippery stairs.
Terry Gain says
Of course it’s a Muslim ban. And it is completely justified, though not entirely rational. It bans Muslims from certain countries based on the fact that those countries produce more terrorists than other Muslim majority countries.
I have a better plan which is more rational and more honest. Since the motivation for terrorism is contained in Islam’s so-called holy book, the Koran, that we temporarily suspend the entry of all Muslims until the offending verses are removed from said “holy book”.
Those who can credibly prove that they are not Muslim, or no longer Muslim, would be exempted.
Infidel says
Terry, citizens of Burma, Venezuela and North Korea were not and are not Muslims, so calling it a Muslim ban is an exercise in sophistry. Not just that, it even left out countries like Pakistan, which today is a failed state and no less dangerous than Somalia
Infidel says
Also, Terry, I agree w/ the conception, but the idea that it would have passed GO had it been proposed that way is ludicrous! We saw the reactions in 2015 when Trump proposed a ‘Muslim Ban’ after the San Bernardino massacre, and his DoJ had to morph it into a ‘Travel Ban’. Over time, it included enemy countries like Venezuela and North Korea, making the ‘muslim ban’ argument easier to refute
For the record, I disagree w/ bunching those countries w/ muslim countries. Your average Burmese Buddhist, North Korean citizen or Venezuelan citizen is not a threat to the US, so there’s no strong reason to ban them unless they have ties w/ the communist regimes. But average citizens of even ‘friendly’ countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE are a danger; never mind other countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan. It’s ludicrous that the 2 countries where the Taliban is close to attaining power were not on the list. Of course, now it’s moot, since the list is going away
Terry Gain says
There is no obligation to accept anyone. Start from there and there is a slight chance of a rational immigration plan evolving.
Infidel says
That would be fine as well – a blanket ban on ALL immigration, for say, 10 years. Put it down to anything – the Chinavirus, wanting those here to assimilate, or anything like it
Malcolm (South Afric) says
I am a Catholic South African who Happened to have read The Atlantic, world edition, the title “Catholics who hate Joe Biden And the Pope.”
Just because Joe Biden is a known liar, a plagiarist, a possible thief, a sell out Catholic notwithstanding his son, a crack head, a thief liar, possible child molester. Why would Tish Durkin think we hate Joe Biden or the Pope?
We pray for all people, even the most disgusting of humans, that they change their evil ways and save their souls. We would rather they have eternal life than eternal damnation.
Mojdeh says
end of this republic indeed? ‘We don’t want Biden. We want revenge for police murders, imperialist wars, and fascist massacres’: Antifa mob smash up Portland’s Democratic Party HQ, burn US flags in Denver and run riot in Seattle in protest at Biden presidency
Federal Protective Services fired tear gas and flash bangs at crowd of 200 protesters in Portland, Oregon
Demonstrators pelted Immigration and Customs Enforcement building with rocks and eggs on Wednesday
ICE building in Portland has been site of frequent clashes between federal police and leftist demonstrators
Police in Portland, Oregon, made arrests after Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters was vandalized
Antifa members spray-painted ‘F*** Biden’ and smashed windows of Democratic Party headquarters
In Denver, communist and anti-fascist demonstrators set fire to an American flag near State Capitol
In Seattle, groups of Antifa rioters vandalized storefronts and businesses in downtown area on Wednesday
Police in Seattle said that Antifa members smashed windows at the federal Nakamura Courthouse
Reports indicate that some 60 Antifa members wielded clubs during march in Sacramento on Wednesday
gravenimage says
Yes–yet the media says little about Antifa violence.
Keith O says
Sleazy Joe has now started undoing all the good work started by Trump. At one time I contemplated living in the once united states, now I am glad I didn’t move over there!
One thing crossed my mind, when a mudslime kills an American after being let into the country by this village idiot, will he be impeached for being a co conspirator in a Jihad attack?
somehistory says
One of the newly elected…a young woman…said she was going to file impeachment charges against him for abuse of power. When he threatened to withhold funds if the prosecutor in his son hunter’s case was not fired, hence abuse of power when he was vp.
It may not go anywhere due to the house and senate both being held by the dems, but it should. If there was still justice, it would. But harris wouldn’t be any better.
truthout says
Probably not as its his duty to kill us .He is on the enemy’s side and that is who is running this country .More likely he will be given boatloads of cash and a party.We for all practical purposes have been displaced from within and are being held hostage to the duma formerly known as the United States of America
James Lincoln says
Keith O says,
“when a mudslime kills an American after being let into the country by this village idiot, will he be impeached for being a co conspirator in a Jihad attack?”
Unfortunately, no.
The politicians making the decisions from there gated communities have no real skin in the game…
john smith says
Joe Biden is just about the worst thing that could happen to the US, he is on par to Germanys Angela Merkel.
No Muzzies Here says
His first action was his worst. The consequences of this action will be felt for the rest of the life of the USA.
somehistory says
More mo attas, more underwear bombers, more il omars….more and more and vetting is useless concerning those people who lie as a matter of practicing it in every aspect of their lives.
And ‘o’ got rid of the part of the oath about being loyal…because he is moslim and knew they would have to answer with a lie and could be caught out, or they would be truthful…loyal only to the mass-murdering, raper of children, lysing sack of slug slime, slave trading son of satan the devil…and their false ‘god,’ satan…and being truthful would keep them out.
“Are you part now or ever have been, a member of a terror group?”
moslim who is a member of the largest terror group…islam…says “no.”
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Somehistory.
James Lincoln says
So here we have Joe Biden as President of the United States.
A man, in my opinion, that could not effectively run, say, a small convenience store…
somehistory says
I had a job once, and a Jew from Iran came in where I worked, liked me and wanted me to work for him. He owned a small “convenience store”…groceries and gasoline and lottery tickets…and I took it on as a second job because his wife was going to teach me Farsi. It may look like a simple thing, but it is in no way so easy as one might think just from visiting one.
So, if this is the simplest job that he might do, even an ineffective way, then that leaves him as ineffective.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
I wasn’t in any way trying to put down hard-working folks who run small convenience stores.
It certainly does require skill and attention to detail…
somehistory says
Ah, JL, I know that.
And I wasn’t meaning to imply that you were trying to put down anyone.
Just stating a fact or two about the job that some may not be aware.
I couldn’t stay at it long enough to learn Farsi and keep my other full time position, so alas, I had to let it go.
It was harder than I thought it would be.
I was thinking, biden could ride a train; only as a passenger. I’m not sure he could run a lemonade stand by himself.
A president of a country, even a small country, carries a heavy load. He’s old and senile and .. Some official said that he had susan rice in as an advisor. Guess we know what that means.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Biden’s removal of the travel ban from countries with many dangerous violent jihadists may lead to death and mayhem in different American cities . The people would smile at this statement will no longer be smiling after many people are murdered by jihadist planted bombs or murderous shooting by jihadist terrorist Muslim who came to America from those countries Biden removed for that travel ban.
john smith says
You know what is going on Walter
Fred Skolnick says
The First of many ill conceived decisions of Sniffy’s Administration. God help us.
tim gallagher says
What a stupid decision. I suspect, with this Biden administration in charge, this imbecilic decision will merely be one of thousands of dopey and dangerous decisions they make. I believe that many on the left live in a fantasy world, completely out of touch with harsh realities, and letting the Muslim enemy into the USA (or any other western country) is a very foolish and dangerous move. It seems like virtue signalling foolishness of the highest order.
tgusa says
If the election was legit and I don’t believe it was Americans voted for this. Embrace the suck over make America great. Make America the worlds doormat and that’s what the Biden syndicate will do and his supporters don’t care. If you encounter Biden supporters never forget that they voted to, screw you.
Palladini says
Islam is not here to integrate, unlike every other religions who have come to North America, who all got along with each other, muslims do want to integrate, they are here to Dominate us
Islam is NOT a religion, maybe a cult at most, but more of a Political system then a Religion
Since the start of islam, 270 million People have died by at hands of muslims worldwide, it is not a religion of peace.
To back up my facts watch this video and see for yourself – https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y
gravenimage says
As promised, Biden lifts travel ban on people from jihadi hotspots that he falsely described as ‘Muslim ban’
………………..
Biden said he’d do this on day one, and he did–as well as halting th border wall. Between them, these two acts will allow hordes of violent Muslims to flood into the US, putting American citizens in greater danger. He must be so proud…
Phil Copson says
“As promised, Biden lifts travel ban…..”
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As the list of countries was drawn-up by the administration in which Biden was Vice-President, and merely enacted by Trump, surely the White House should be announcing that “Biden lifts own travel-ban” and denouncing the “President” as divisive /anti-muslim / racist etc etc ?