every time he says sh*t like that, i'm sure that this is the time that he'll run himself out of the race... then i remember how many other crazy things he's said and how it seems to have no effect on his popularity. then i cry.
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump urges ban on all Muslim entry to the U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-immigration/index.html
I do not know that I agree with Trump but his position has occurred to me, as it has to many Americans, and I don't think it is a crazy one...doesn't mean I agree with it.. I am not sure.. I don't know but food for thought...
a country does get to determine who gets to emigrate to the United States...they make decisions every day on who they want.. how many from here or there... they interview people and make decisions...often times arbitrary..or do you think the consular officials who conduct interviews etc do not often use their personal judgment and opinion??? it is not a scientific process..... visit many Latin American countries and there are people lined up outside the US Embassy/Consulates for hours... all night.... at some point a choice is made on who to let visit and who not... After, for example, Argentina defaulted on its debt and many Argentines began to stay in the US illegally after their tourist visas expired the US decided to make it difficult for Argentines to even get the tourist visa.. I know of someone who wanted to visit family, was about 80 years old, and was not approved.. or refunded a couple of hundred bucks in processing fees (a lot of money at the time down there)..I feel that was a crazy decision but it happened... it happens all the time...point is the US makes these decisions all the time in light of what it considers to be in the best interests.. it discriminates all the time... maybe not predominantly on religion but certainly on nationality.. ie, where people are coming from, what they can offer, what the people who have already come from that place have done etc etc... It seems odd to think it weird to say "Hey 19 of the 20 hijackers where from Saudi Arabia, this woman came from there, they are full of Wahabi schools, Osama and his family are from there but hey lets prioritize letting in as many Saudis as people from other countries".... Maybe we can simply adjust the numbers.. but at the end of the day we do need to exercise some sort of criteria on whom to allow in to our country...
I'm not embracing this position but I don't think its unreasonable to consider we might not want people coming in from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan... Lets think about the female who mowed down 14 people... she was a Pakistani who had been in Saudi for a few years... why should she come to our country? Was it a good choice to let her come in to our country or would we have been better off not letting her come in?
I do think people who are in this country as Americans already have their rights as Americans...those cannot be taken away... but letting in new people? that is a privilege not a right.. and we can damn well decide how we go about doing it...
I also think its past time to stop with this baloney about how all religions are the same etc.. no, there is one religion that is producing a disproportionate amount of people who want to blow up things... I wish it weren't so but wishing don't make it so.... people say "oh its just a few bad apples.. a small percentage" but if we really look at the world we see many countries where fundamentalist Islamic governments have either been voted in or taken over by force and retained power.... when you see Islamists making strides in places like Turkey via the ballot box or Egypt (where the military then overthrew them...) you have to say wait a minute..its not just a few people here... these are two of the most strategically important countries in that area of the world and the Islamists won in both!
