It has hit me. This is the Muslim Ban. We know he's been shot down for just banning Muslims from entering--got around that by banning those from a bunch of Muslim COUNTRIES. But some, like the Turkish student or Khalil entering from Lebanon, can't be banned in the get-around way. So they are forced to let them IN if they qualify, but the…
It has hit me. This is the Muslim Ban. We know he's been shot down for just banning Muslims from entering--got around that by banning those from a bunch of Muslim COUNTRIES. But some, like the Turkish student or Khalil entering from Lebanon, can't be banned in the get-around way. So they are forced to let them IN if they qualify, but then boot them OUT because our actual foreign policy is to ban Muslims; we just can't talk about it, but we can sure say there are "consequences."
This needs to get in a court where discovery can be rigorously pursued of how any--or each--of this students would have consequences and how specifically their presence here would affect those consequences. (States Secret Privilege incoming, but this really needs some court definition of when this can apply. One CAN"T really invoke a national security concern and then say "but I don't have to give any hints of what that concern is." )
They are starting with the students, both as part of the general attack on universities and because of the "hook" of the protests, where anyone expressing an opinion is vandalizing property or taking over a building. But it will spread. Watch out H1B visa holders.
It has hit me. This is the Muslim Ban. We know he's been shot down for just banning Muslims from entering--got around that by banning those from a bunch of Muslim COUNTRIES. But some, like the Turkish student or Khalil entering from Lebanon, can't be banned in the get-around way. So they are forced to let them IN if they qualify, but then boot them OUT because our actual foreign policy is to ban Muslims; we just can't talk about it, but we can sure say there are "consequences."
This needs to get in a court where discovery can be rigorously pursued of how any--or each--of this students would have consequences and how specifically their presence here would affect those consequences. (States Secret Privilege incoming, but this really needs some court definition of when this can apply. One CAN"T really invoke a national security concern and then say "but I don't have to give any hints of what that concern is." )
They are starting with the students, both as part of the general attack on universities and because of the "hook" of the protests, where anyone expressing an opinion is vandalizing property or taking over a building. But it will spread. Watch out H1B visa holders.
Watch Rick Steves most recent from Berlin about how fascism starts & spreads.