{"id":215,"date":"2017-07-14T02:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T02:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2022-10-21T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:49:11","slug":"executive-orders-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/2017\/07\/14\/executive-orders-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Orders on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-216\" src=\"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-seal_of_the_united_states_supreme_court-svg.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-seal_of_the_united_states_supreme_court-svg.png 1200w, https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-seal_of_the_united_states_supreme_court-svg-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-seal_of_the_united_states_supreme_court-svg-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-seal_of_the_united_states_supreme_court-svg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-seal_of_the_united_states_supreme_court-svg-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>June 26, 2017, the ultimate legal authority in the country, The United States Supreme Court, has ruled.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know every single one of the intricate aspects of this Administration\u2019s Executive Order on Immigration.<\/p>\n<p>What I <em>do know<\/em> is this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 2015 &#8211; 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12) &#8211; President Obama placed restrictions for on certain travelers who had visited Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria on or after March 1, 2011. In Feb 2016, he added Libya, Somalia, and Yemen to the list, trying to address &#8220;the growing threat from foreign terrorist fighters.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>This list of countries matches <em>exactly<\/em> the countries named in the current Executive Order.<\/li>\n<li>The Obama restrictions took place without public outrage &amp; protests, without screams of racism, without lawsuits, without the Press and the Left excoriating the President, and without any of the general hysteria we see today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are not three of my opinions, these are irrefutable facts. \u00a0Sadly, these days one can be denigrated as being racist, bigoted, xenophobic, uncaring and even un-American simply for stating relevant facts. \u00a0THAT is a big problem in America today, we can\u2019t even have rational, fact-based discussion when it involves divergent views.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just listened to yet another leftist do-gooder venting their self-righteous indignation about the \u201cMuslim\u201d travel ban, and how it constitutes \u201cbigoted, religious persecution by a white-supremacist society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With all due respect, if you make the \u201cMuslim\u201d or &#8220;religious\u201d claim, you have absolutely NO credibility, NONE!!!<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I\u2019m a data guy, and given the choice of facts vs feelings, I\u2019ll take facts: There are about 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world. \u00a0The six most-populous countries contain more than half (53%) of the <em>entire world\u2019s<\/em> Muslim population. \u00a0They are (in order): Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria &amp; Egypt. \u00a0Well Mr. Do-Gooder, remind me again, which of these Muslim countries is included in the Executive Order (your \u201cMuslim\u201d travel ban list)?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m waiting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that\u2019s what I thought. \u00a0So please tell me again (this time <em>without<\/em> all of the hyperbole and emotion-based rhetoric) how this is a religiously-motivated action against Muslims?<\/p>\n<p>You want to peacefully protest, fine. \u00a0You want to passionately exercise your First Amendment rights and respectfully debate a difference of opinion, also fine. \u00a0But in the interest of intellectual honesty, and perhaps even doing genuine \u201cgood,\u201d do us all a favor, and at the very least, get your g**d*** facts straight!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2017, the ultimate legal authority in the country, The United States Supreme Court, has ruled.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know every single one of the intricate aspects of this Administration\u2019s Executive Order on Immigration. What I do know is this: December 2015 &#8211; 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12) &#8211; President Obama placed restrictions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/2017\/07\/14\/executive-orders-on-immigration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Executive Orders on Immigration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-commentary-and-perspective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}