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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSTOP!!! Stop calling it a refugee ban
This was not a refugee ban, most of the people banned were not refugees. This was a travel ban, they banned people from reentering the US that already lived here because of the country they were born in was a Muslim country.
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STOP!!! Stop calling it a refugee ban (Original Post)
Johnny2X2X
Jan 2017
OP
trump didn't have business in the 7 countries called out in US INA code as "countries of concern"
jmg257
Jan 2017
#5
Giuliani flat out called it a Muslim ban. Said Trump asked him how to ban Muslims
Quixote1818
Jan 2017
#4
rzemanfl
(29,585 posts)1. A muslim country where Cheeto Mussolini did not have business interests. n/t
jmg257
(11,996 posts)5. trump didn't have business in the 7 countries called out in US INA code as "countries of concern"
in the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act?
Huh.
I'd be more concerned with which countries are next on the list.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)2. Maybe, but it's ALSO banning refugees
we can do it
(12,222 posts)3. Good point
Quixote1818
(29,025 posts)4. Giuliani flat out called it a Muslim ban. Said Trump asked him how to ban Muslims
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