Trump will sign exec order to ‘build that wall’
… because nothing says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your hungry” like a wall on the Mexican border.
President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from “terror prone” nations from entering, at least temporarily.
The orders are among an array of national security directives Mr. Trump is considering issuing in the coming days, according to people who have seen the orders. They include reviewing whether to resume the once-secret “black site” detention program; keep open the prison at Guantánamo Bay; and designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
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Mr. Trump is also expected to target legal immigrants as early as this week, White House officials said, by halting a decades-old program that grants refuge to the world’s most vulnerable people as he begins the process of drastically curtailing it and enhancing screening procedures.
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The refugee policy under consideration would halt admissions from Syria and suspend it from other majority-Muslim nations until the administration can study how to properly vet them. This would pave the way for the administration to slash the number of displaced people who can be resettled on American soil, and would effectively bar the entry of people from Muslim countries — including Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Syria — at least for some time.
The plan is in line with a ban on Muslim immigrants that Mr. Trump proposed during his campaign, arguing that such a step was warranted given concerns about terrorism. He later said he wanted to impose “extreme vetting” of refugees from Syria and other countries where terrorism was rampant, although the Obama administration had already instituted strict screening procedures for Syrian refugees that were designed to weed out anyone who posed a danger.
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* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
17 responses to Trump will sign exec order to ‘build that wall’
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Dammitjim January 25th, 2017 at 10:34
Good luck Clownstick!
anothertoothpick January 25th, 2017 at 10:39
There are many ways to get over a stupid wall.
. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/664493cd32c9b7fa1bc8bb253bfd8c70eba32f437246e7550b0768b620b035fe.gif
The Original Just Me January 25th, 2017 at 11:37
The empty casket of ben Laden ?????
anothertoothpick January 25th, 2017 at 14:27
Yeah! That too.
Obewon January 25th, 2017 at 10:40
Klansman Donnie’s keep America Racist 50,000 foot high wall plan! 77% of undocumented immigrants overstay airline tourist visas. Less than 1% of refugees enter USA. http://www.npr.org/2015/11/17/456395388/paris-attacks-ignite-debate-over-u-s-refugee-policy https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/953799cb25d3527e5aa1afb148dff3d9d893500208178cf49f4a7f6b10ff7c2f.jpg
False! Donald Trump says there’s ‘no system to vet’ refugees. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/13/donald-trump/wrong-donald-trump-says-theres-no-system-vet-refug/
Gina Bousquet January 25th, 2017 at 10:56
All of them regrettable, xenophobic, reactionary measures, of course.But I could only think of the black-site detention program.This is what the left calls State terrorism.
The Original Just Me January 25th, 2017 at 11:35
Hitler has Risen from the Dead and will be Celebrated throughout the Land of Republicans. So it has been Voted.
Gina Bousquet January 25th, 2017 at 13:10
I’m horrified with his executive orders, such yuuuuge Sh!Tstorm. Add to the scenario his high IQ cabinet and the Republican Congress, what can result??
Obewon January 25th, 2017 at 23:17
Luckily for us Gina, DT’s communiques have the enforceability of a post-it note, or a tweet. You and our colleagues are far more legally literate, including a few Juris Doctors knowing toothless fortune cookie proclamations, lack legal standing and enforceability. (☯‿☯)
Gina Bousquet January 26th, 2017 at 06:36
Thank you Obe, for pointing out the silver lining. :) I was disregarding the fact that his obvious stupidity will probably undermine the enforceability of his orders.
William January 25th, 2017 at 11:17
Step one. Tell the Goobers you’re going to build a wall.(goobers don’t actually understand government funding and that presidents cannot actually order that sort of expenditure)
Step two. Watch as Congress refuses to give you the money.
Step three. Blame everything on Congress. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eeb4830fb89cc22e08281e412cea04672fb3d3668abaeb13c8b062e9125e3552.jpg
The Original Just Me January 25th, 2017 at 11:32
You get what you Voted for. Happy Now ?????
eyelashviper January 25th, 2017 at 11:37
Just tweeted lil Don:
“Hands too small to build a Wall, even in the sandbox…SAD.”
Mensa Member January 26th, 2017 at 22:54
Obama already built 700 miles of wall. Trump didn’t know. Sad.
Mike January 25th, 2017 at 12:11
Sounds like the Executive Branch just ordered the Legislative Branch to spend our money without voting ….
I thought repubs were all about the constitution?
labman57 January 25th, 2017 at 15:46
The Pharaohs had their pyramids, so naturally Donnie wants his wall … no matter who ends up paying for it.
Mensa Member January 26th, 2017 at 22:52
This is classic Republican. Start trillion dollar projects with no talk about where we’ll get the money.