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kpete's JournalOur DHS has issued a press release stating that DHS intends to defy the orders of the judge
https://twitter.com/FearDept/status/825623174087733249https://twitter.com/FearDept/status/825662667197079553
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/01/29/department-homeland-security-response-recent-litigation
NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: "Let me be clear: POTUS exec action is unconstitutional."
https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/825559442515169280Lyft says it is donating $1 million to the ACLU in protest of Trump's refugee order
https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki/status/825698278071267329Dan Rather -Today I shed a tear for the country I know and love"
Dan Rather -
The United States became the most powerful nation in the history of mankind not merely on the basis is its fearsome military, as lethal and well trained as that may be. It wasn't solely based on its unprecedented economic engine, as dynamic and far-reaching as that may be. America's greatness was forged by a Constitutional compact of grand and universal ideals that the country has tried to live up to ever since.
For generations, we have been an imperfect but vital beacon of freedom to a world too often wandering and failing in moral confusion. But that ultimate strength has dimmed considerably in light of the recent actions on immigration from the new President Donald Trump. We are turning around desperate refugees. We are singling out men, women, and children on the basis of their faith - and we are doing all of this with a randomness and capriciousness that defies reason.
A colleague of mine used the term "heartless" to describe so much of the President's executive actions. Sadly, I found it an apt and dispiriting diagnosis—especially when faced with the results of his executive order on immigration. For over the years, I have seen that our greatest American leaders extol empathy rather than condemnation. They have known that in a complicated world, it is best to make policy choices with a scalpel - not a hacksaw. Sometimes, when our national security is threatened at the level of World War II, all-out conflict is the only recourse. But those instances are by far the exception.
From Vietnam, to the Iraq War, from Japanese internment camps to the centuries-long persecution on the basis of race and ethnicity that almost toppled our democratic experiment, broad strokes channeling our least compassionate and most jingoistic impulses have always made us weaker rather than stronger.
Today, in the wake of his one-man decision to wreck and reverse immigration policy so suddenly, there is chaos and confusion mixed with heartbreak and fear. A well thought-out, measured overhaul of immigration policy, with organized-in-advance measures to implement that is one thing—and one that perhaps a majority of Americans would support, But this mess, created overnight, is quite another. With this, we have embolden our enemies who want to see nothing else than to compete in a world of moral relativism. In the Cold War, our struggles over civil rights fed into the propaganda of the Soviet Union - as our new actions fuel the extremism Mr. Trump claims to be attacking.”
Too many people during the campaign explained away Mr. Trump's irresponsible rhetoric as metaphors and euphemisms. These are not concepts he understands. Serious foreign policy experts know that this is a boon for our enemies and undermines our democratic principles. But too many Republican leaders in Congress, even ones that denounced the Muslim ban during the campaign, stand by cheering it now. History will mark their names, as it marks this moment.
This will be challenged in the courts, who may very well strike it down. But damage, real damage, has been done to our global image. I believe Vladimir Putin is smiling, and would-be global powers like China see a vacuum forming that they will be eager to fill.
I still remain optimistic that the vast majority of American people will recoil and speak out at this unwise policy. But whether we like it or not, as the detentions and impediments already springing up make all too real, this is the stated de facto policy of the United States today. Every day that it goes on, every day the chaos, confusion and heartbreak deepens, America loses more pieces of its soul and standing in the world.
https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10158124886660716
Just in case someone on the Sunday Talk Shows says: "This is NOT a Muslim Ban"
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/825697609369137152https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/825694659204767745
Son of National Security Advisor Flynn Admits Newest Executive Order Is a ‘Muslim Ban’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/son-of-national-security-advisor-flynn-admits-newest-executive-order-is-a-muslim-ban/
Theresa May's team says she held hands with Trump at Trump's request, because he is afraid of stairs
https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/825688837611540482https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/825615763490877440
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/trump-and-charles-in-climate-row-d2qwb7962?CMP=Spklr-_-Editorial-_-TWITTER-_-thesundaytimes-_-20170129-_-791776818&linkId=33894192
Ambassador Rice: "This is stone cold crazy. After a week of crazy."
https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/825707620875001856Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence: Trumps Horrifying Executive Order on Refugees and Visas
The malevolence of President Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly—and perhaps only—by the astonishing incompetence of its drafting and construction.If the purpose of the order is the one it describes, for example, I can think of no good reason to burden the lives of students individually suspected of nothing who are here lawfully and just happen to be temporarily overseas, or to detain tourists and refugees who were mid-flight when the order came down. I have trouble imagining any reason to raise questions about whether green card holders who have lived here for years can leave the country and then return. Yes, it’s temporary, and that may lessen the costs (or it may not, depending on the outcome of the policy review the order mandates), but temporarily irrational is still irrational.
Put simply, I don’t believe that the stated purpose is the real purpose. This is the first policy the United States has adopted in the post-9/11 era about which I have ever said this. It’s a grave charge, I know, and I’m not making it lightly. But in the rational pursuit of security objectives, you don’t marginalize your expert security agencies and fail to vet your ideas through a normal interagency process. You don’t target the wrong people in nutty ways when you’re rationally pursuing real security objectives.
When do you do these things? You do these things when you’re elevating the symbolic politics of bashing Islam over any actual security interest. You do them when you’ve made a deliberate decision to burden human lives to make a public point. In other words, this is not a document that will cause hardship and misery because of regrettable incidental impacts on people injured in the pursuit of a public good. It will cause hardship and misery for tens or hundreds of thousands of people because that is precisely what it is intended to do.
https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas
NYT on immigration ruling: Cruel. Bigoted. Cowardly. Self-defeating.
First, reflect on the cruelty of President Trump’s decision on Friday to indefinitely suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily ban people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States. It took just hours to begin witnessing the injury and suffering this ban inflicts on families that had every reason to believe they had outrun carnage and despotism in their homelands to arrive in a singularly hopeful nation.
The first casualties of this bigoted, cowardly, self-defeating policy were detained early Saturday at American airports just hours after the executive order, ludicrously titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” went into effect.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/opinion/donald-trumps-muslim-ban-is-cowardly-and-dangerous.html?ref=opinion&mtrref=www.dailykos.com&gwh=870F02CB2965C30019F94AE97E5E642E&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
ACLU -Trumps "going to lose so much, we're going to get sick & tired of his losing"
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is celebrating after a federal judge ruled in its favor, temporarily halting the removal of refugees and immigrants detained following President Trump's immigration ban.
“I hope Trump enjoys losing. He’s going to lose so much we’re going to get sick and tired of his losing,” ACLU national political director Faiz Shakir told Yahoo News shortly after the decision was announced.
Shakir was referencing a similar quote from Trump that he used in cheering on his own election victory.
"Our courts today worked as they should as bulwarks against government abuse or unconstitutional policies and orders," the ACLU also tweeted.
"On week one, Donald Trump suffered his first loss in court.
MORE:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316716-aclu-celebrates-victory-i-hope-trump-enjoys-losing
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