http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/us-iraq-syria-genocide/ (CNN)Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the United States has determined that ISIS' action against the Yazidis and other minority groups in Iraq and Syria constitutes genocide. "My purpose here today is to assert in my judgment, (ISIS) is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control including Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims," he said, during a news conference at the State Department. Kerry said that in 2014, ISIS trapped Yazidis, killed them, enslaved thousands of Yazidi women and girls, "selling them at auction, raping them at will and destroying the communities in which they had lived for countless generations," executed Christians "solely for their faith" and also "forced Christian women and girls into slavery."
You are correct sort of, there were two things happening. Obama in 2011, put a refugee ban in place for 6 months on Iraq. And in 2015 there was the Terrorist Travel Prevention Act.
The media isn't talking about the 2015 law. They're more interested in debunking that Obama did in 2011 the same thing as Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...y-625pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.a33fc92e9980 My understanding is that there were restrictions but NO ban.....
Ban or "stopped processing Iraq refugees". I guess semantics... Either way, the goal was similar. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qa...terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131
Would like to know where the outrage was when Obama nixed the wet foot dry foot......on his way out the door.
Sounds like you're saying that there isn't really anything wrong with what he has done, just with what you assume he will do in the future.
Why should illegal immigrants from Cuba have better treatment than, say, illegal immigrants from Mexico? barfo
I don't have a problem with reworking the immigration policy. I don't like how it was done. I don't like the breadth of the change or the immediacy of it, particularly affecting already documented legal immigrants and leaving many families in limbo. I don't like the apprehension that it will become permanent. I am saying that the intent was bigoted, and there was an attempt to make it look like it wasn't directed towards muslims.
