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Remember how the travel ban was only going to be 90/120 days until they figured things out? (Original Post) LesterKasai Jun 2017 OP
Thought the same thing zipplewrath Jun 2017 #1
They never wanted to "figure things out" frazzled Jun 2017 #2

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
1. Thought the same thing
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 02:00 PM
Jun 2017

It was all supposed to be temporary so they could work up some "extreme vetting" system. Please tell me they were working on that all this time.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
2. They never wanted to "figure things out"
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 02:03 PM
Jun 2017

What there was to figure out was the vetting process, which is already highly rigorous.

What they wanted was to get a foothold on a discriminatory law that would pass, saying it was temporary. They know temporary things tend to become permanent, and you can make them "stronger" as time passes on. It's like getting addicts hooked on drugs.

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