"This American Life" Saturday on the Immigration Ban was brilliant, frightening, and illuminating

[ehrnst]

I am sure that that interviews from the State Department people responsible for doing refugee vetting on what happened could be entered into evidence for impeachment. "When I talked to the Homeland Security rep about what they knew about the order, they said, "I keep refreshing the White House website, like you are."

There are also quotes from one of the leaders of the 9/11 commission on the fallacy of the "purpose statement" in the EO, that uses 9/11 hijackers as the basis for this extreme action, which ignore that in the past 15+ years, billions have been spent on reviewing, revamping and tightening the system by which immigrants are vetted.

A must listen.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/609/its-working-out-very-nicely

[hlthe2b]

1. Agree. It was shattering in many ways...

[etherealtruth]

2. I sobbed through the entire piece

It is enraging that those on the "right' want to characterize this as a "minor inconvenience."

I am horrified as a human and even more ashamed that my country would do this to innocent people.