I have yet to see a reporter ask this question of anyone in the Trump administration.
Remember that first travel ban Trump issues with an executive order? What was the purpose of that, according to the administration? It wasn't to ban everyone from those countries indefinitely, right?
It was to "figure out what the hell is going on" with our vetting process. That was the rationale. Does anyone remember that?
The whole idea, supposedly, was that our travel procedures were somehow deficient. There were talks of reports and investigations into what was wrong, how to plug the holes, how to improve the vetting process.
So where are those reports? Where are those recommendations? Why isn't anyone asking for them?
The ban was supposed to be temporary. For how long? Hmm...90 days, right? So Trump issued the first travel ban soon after he came into office, January 27th to be exact. February, March, April. Gee, that's 90 days.
I'm sure that the Trump administration, specifically Homeland Security, has been working hard on figuring out what's wrong with travel procedures from countries that are a risk for terrorism. Right? But wait. I don't see a damn thing about such a report or such recommendations on the Department of Homeland Security website. I also haven't seen anything in the news about it.
And yet, 90 days have passed. Where's the review? Where's the report? Does the Trump administration not give a damn about our national security? Those horrible judges have struck down both iterations of his travel bans, leaving us exposed and naked to the threat of terrorism.
But fear not...Trump's team has to have been working diligently to identify and fix all the problems, right?
Right?
Or maybe, just maybe, the reasons they gave were all a sham. Maybe it was all fear-mongering. Maybe...gosh, maybe they never intended to revise travel procedures at all. Maybe they meant to institute a "temporary" ban, then point to how effective it was and extend it once the 90 days ran out. But that's ridiculous, right? That's not what they said. They said the procedures were all screwed up and that they were going to tell us what was wrong and how to fix it in 90 days.
So? Maybe it's time for the administration and those who defend them on this issue to put up or shut up.
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it took about 5 minutes to find an article showing that the state department is looking into what would work.
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That article refers to a set of internal memos that seem to talk about two things to strengthen the visa process: asking questions about traveler's social media and giving additional scrutiny to certain "population sets". Okay, cool. Since the memos don't say what the "population sets" are, we can assume maybe they look Muslim. So we're profiling and checking to see if they've posted jihadi comments to FB?
DeleteDid we fix it? Are these measures being put in place? Where's the report? Where's the announcement? It took them 90 days for that?
This is pathetic. Are you really holding this up as evidence of the administration revamping the visa system in any meaningful way?
The original ban was for 90 days. Presumably that's how long the problem areas were going to take to identify and fix. Are we done? Do they need more time?
One more thing I think you are missing is that it is about countries that don't have the proper infrastructure so that our current vetting process will work. So these countries are not chosen because they have terrorists in them, they are chosen because they don't have a quality system or infrastructure to allow us to properly vet them. This is why Saudia Arabia is not on the list but Syria is.
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