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Earlier (2017) Obama Also Put A Hold On Muslim Immigrants In 2011, And The Countries He Banned Were The Same (But He Didn’t Mean It)
The conflict in Israel has brought the Muslim issue back to American politics. Islamic terrorists striking outside of Gaza shocked the world. And the large pro-Hamas demonstrations that broke out in America and Europe illustrated the results of mass Muslim immigration. Donald Trump has highlighted the need for a renewed “Muslim Ban” and Ron DeSantis is also alluding to one, indicating Republicans are ready for this idea. America will need the GOP to stand strong against Muslim immigration with the strong possibility Islamic migrants could flood this country with progressive support. Islamic terrorism can only reach here through Open Borders. But signs are this issue could be a huge electoral winner for the GOP.
Trump spoke before a large crowd in New Hampshire and brought up the need for a new Muslim ban. He said the terror attacks in Israel made it critical for America to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists.” He didn’t call it a Muslim ban–he just said that it will be imposed on “terrorism-affected countries.” “The bloodshed and killing that we saw this week will never, ever be allowed to happen on American soil,” Trump told rallygoers. “Except for the fact that we have now allowed tens of thousands of probable terrorists into our country.” [Trump Uses Support for Israel to Revive Travel Ban Talk, by Anjali Huynh, New York Times, October 9, 2023].
This isn’t the first time in this campaign that Trump has brought up the idea. It’s actually become a common feature of his rally speeches—indicating that he knows it’s playing well. He told an Iowa audience back in July that he would expand the ban if he returns to the White House:
“Under the Trump administration, we imposed extreme vetting and put on a powerful travel ban to keep radical Islamic terrorists and jihadists out of our country… Well, how did that work out? We had no problem, right? They knew they couldn’t come here if they had that moniker. They couldn’t come here.”
“When I return to office, the travel ban is coming back even bigger than before and much stronger than before. We don’t want people blowing up our shopping centers. We don’t want people blowing up our cities and we don’t want people stealing our farms. So it’s not gonna happen” [Trump says he’d bring back “travel ban” that’s “even bigger than before”, by Kathryn Watson and Zac Hudak, CBS, July 7, 2023].
The Muslim ban was a key to Trump’s primary victory back in 2016. After a series of deadly terror attacks in Europe and America, Trump called for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” Contrary to conventional predictions, his poll numbers shot up higher, solidifying his dominance in the race.
When Trump became president, his Muslim ban wasn’t quite a prohibition on all Muslims coming to the U.S. But it did significantly limit the number of Islamic migrants. Trump battled throughout his tenure to secure a travel ban on terrorist hotbeds. The first draft of the ban was blocked by the court, but after adding a few non-Muslim countries, the travel ban remained in place for the rest of Trump’s tenure. The countries banned included the Muslim-majority nations of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The non-Muslim countries at times included North Korea, Venezuela, and South Sudan.
And the ban did have had its intended effect of reducing Muslim migration. There was an 84 percent decline in immigration from five majority-Muslim nations in the travel ban’s first two years [Muslim Travel Ban: Less Immigration And Few Waivers, by Stuart Anderson, Forbes, March 11, 2019]. Main Stream media outlets have continued to complain about the long-term effects on Muslim migration to the US years after Trump left office [‘Empty promises’: The US’s ‘Muslim ban’ still reverberates, by Jihan Abdalla, Al Jazeera, February 4, 2022]. It was one of Trump’s most successful policies, and he has every justification to bring it back.
Despite Ruling Class hysterics over the travel ban proposal, it was supported by a majority of Americans. One poll found that six in ten voters backed it. There was also evidence that even more Americans would have support edit if it hasn’t been so firmly tied to Trump [Poll: Majority of voters back Trump travel ban, by Steven Shepard, Politico, July 5, 2017]. Even with constant media propaganda telling them to welcome Syrian “migrants,” 60 percent of Americans in 2015 opposed their resettlement in the homeland [Americans Again Opposed to Taking In Refugees, by Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup, November 23, 2015].
The current violence in the Middle East is guaranteed to increase support for such bans. Many of the potential Muslim refugees that would come to America would be Palestinian. American voters have little sympathy for them. Only nine percent of U.S. voters say they are more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis [Americans’ Sympathies Shift Toward Israel Following Hamas Terrorist Attack, by Cameron Easley, Morning Consult, October 12, 2023]. The idea of bringing them here with heightened fears of terrorism will lead to a similar backlash as there was to Syrian refugees years ago. The difference this time: at least part of the powerful Israel Lobby may also back restrictions on Palestinians to this country.
And Trump isn’t alone. Ron DeSantis has tied the pro-Palestine protests to mass immigration and implied we need to restrict it. He says we can’t take in Palestinians because they are “anti-Semitic.” [Face The Nation—Transcript: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on “Face the Nation,” October 15, 2023] He has not offered a concrete travel ban like Trump, but he appears open to such an idea.
Joe Biden needs to reverse his policies on the southern border.
We are vulnerable with so many military-age men coming into our country. Do you think that our enemies have not been looking at that weakness? pic.twitter.com/qZjdsxrVWo
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) October 11, 2023
DeSantis on pro-Hamas rallies in US cities: "We've got some serious problems. If you don't like this country, you should not be in this country. It's not just illegal immigration, it's also legal immigration." pic.twitter.com/8UM3F041PK
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) October 10, 2023
The one thing to keep in mind: many Muslims aren’t coming here the legal way. Over 70,000 illegals from “special interest” countries have been encountered at the border since Joe Biden took office. This includes thousands from such terror hotspots as Afghanistan [Thousands of ‘Special Interest Aliens’ From Middle East Countries Stopped at Southern Border Since 2021: Data, by Adam Shaw et al., Fox News, October 10, 2023]. There are also a high number of migrants on the terror watchlist being encountered at the border. By July, 160 terror watchlist suspects had been apprehended trying to get into the U.S. [Homeland Security says ‘growing’ number of people on US terror watchlist being encountered at the border, by Greg Norman, Fox News, September 15, 2023]. How many more got away?
However, most Muslims came here the legal way. Incredibly, Islamic immigration actually increased after 9/11. Even though jihadis killed thousands of Americans in the name of their religion, we let in hundreds of thousands of their co-religionists. The American Muslim population nearly doubled from 2001 to 2017. This was due entirely to immigration.
John Derbyshire wrote in 2019 that
Our Muslim population is nudging four million and growing fast. Most—around sixty percent—are immigrants, and three in ten of those immigrants arrived since 2010. [Demographic portrait of Muslim Americans, Pew Research, July 26, 2017, 2017]
The students chanting terrorist slogans at American college campuses are the fruit of this change [New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow, by Besheer Mohamed, Pew, January 3, 2018].
Neoconservatives can complain all they want about the pro-Palestinian protesters, but they have to face the reality that the lax immigration policies they themselves championed brought these people here. One can only hope that this serves as a wake-up call to the likes of Ben Shapiro and others about the threat of mass immigration.
It’s important to stress the dangers of Muslim immigration. It was a critical issue to Republican voters a few years ago, but it’s diminished in salience due to the defeat of ISIS and the decrease in terrorist attacks in the U.S. More recently, Conservative Inc. outlets have been gushing over Muslim parents in burkas protesting against Woke indoctrination in their kids’ schools and some have come to the conclusion that these are people we need as part of a conservative coalition [Muslim-Americans find common ground with conservatives over politicization of America’s schools, by Haris Alic, Fox News, October 25, 2022].
But this fails to acknowledge that nearly two-thirds of Muslims are Democrats. Eight-six percent of Muslims voted for Biden and 94 percent believe “White Supremacy” is a big problem [Muslim Voters Voted Overwhelmingly For Biden, Support Key Democratic Priorities, Change Research, October 14, 2021]. This is not a group that will ever vote for the GOP/GAP.
The flare-up in the Middle East should disabuse everyone of this delusion. Mass Muslim immigration is a clear and present danger to the U.S. They cannot assimilate into being part of the Historic American Nation.
It would’ve been smart of Republicans to champion a Muslim ban after 9/11. Unfortunately, they had dogmatic Immigration Enthusiast leaders at the time. Thankfully, the GOP has much better leaders now. Thus Trump and DeSantis are both talking about the threat that Muslim immigration brings to the U.S. More funding for Israel won’t stop this threat–only patriotic immigration reform will. A Muslim ban is more needed than ever. More Republicans will follow the lead set by Trump and De Santis if they hope to win in 2024.
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These writers support Israel .They hope that Israel would be nice to them.
Fun fact : now that a certain tribe is directly concerned with wannabe head-choppers on the US soil, Muslim ban is good, but the same ones at the height of their Trump derangement syndrome, screamed ” racism ” when it was implemented. F… hypocrites.
Endorsing common sense is not being a rabid sionist.
Some dislike AND Zionists AND Muslims.
It’s too difficult for you to understand ?
I like “decrease in terror attacks.”
How about this: I’ll give you $100 for every Islamic terrorist attack on US soil in the past two decades that resulted in anything more serious than hurt feelings, and you give me a measly $1 for every fatal lightning strike that occurred in that same period.
I’ll even sweeten the deal by reducing your stake by the percentage that domestic Islamic terrorist attacks decreased after Trump’s travel ban.
I fully support a ban on all Muslims to the US. They are not compatible with Western civilization.
I fully support the ban on those murdering christians that have killed millions in the Middle East in recent decades while wearing a US military costume.
Here’s an idea if you dont want muslim immigration how about you get out of their country
Ive got a better deal ill give a $1 for every white victim of black hate crime in the past 2 decades and you give me a $100 for every white victim islamic terror attack in the past 2 decades i suspect you’ll be a lot richer than me
No.WE will send 2000 troops.We have already made sure Russian resolution is dead on arrival. Our leaders are asking US to focus on Iran WSJ and Fox want US attack Iran. We have told the diplomat not to talk about ceasefire and diplomacy .
That all in last 10 days .
So fucking Dragos Enters the 4 hours movie just before it is about to end and sees the bad guys with extensive rap sheet getting killed .Dragos screams at the the killer and hopes the killer should be annihilated .
Not even comparable. One is war, and many were NOT Christian you presumptuous bigot. But that’s ok keep your head up your ass it’s your best view,
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
General Smedley Butler
The US military has killed or caused to die million of people in this century alone via wars based upon total lies. Absolutely everything from 9/11 forward was a war for profit and hegemony fought by mostly amoral christian swine that haven’t the brains or integrity to tell their commanders to fuck off when ordered to essentially murder people.
It’s the morons that ‘follow orders’ and suspend their humanity for a paycheck and retirement program that have done all the in your face and high altitude killings.
Now, can you claim what I stated isn’t absolutely true? Are you one of those amoral christian swine? I see from your prose that you can’t have a civil conversation which tells me I hit a nerve.
Why not read the “War Prayer” by Mark Twain. It’s below so you won’t have to search for it.
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism … on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun … nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. …
Sunday morning came — next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams — visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! … The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said …
…
Then came the “long” prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work….
An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. … he ascended to the preacher’s side and stood there waiting. …
The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside — which the startled minister did — and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:
“I come from the Throne — bearing a message from Almighty God!” …
“God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two — one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this — keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor’s crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.
“You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it — that part which the pastor — and also you in your hearts — fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ … When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory–must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
The ballyhoo about Trump’s ban on Muslim immigration was just politics. There is no question that the President has the legal authority to restrict immigration as he sees fit. It is contained in the 1952 federal law on immigration (8 U.S. Code § 1182, full text online at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182 ) which explicitly states, “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
But the fantasy that hordes of Islamic terrorists are swarming into the US is just the same old same old. As Goering supposedly stated in allied captivity: to keep the people obedient, all you have to do is tell them they are in danger. GOP may as well dust off 2001’s Deadly Islamic Terror Threat, as the Dems’ Deadly Killer Virus Terror is now long past its sell-by date, and it manufacteured our consent so well the first time around.
Reminds me of the old saw about the guy who made elephant repellant for his house by tearing up pieces of paper on the lawn. A neighbor comments “but there aren’t any elephants”, and the guy replies, “see how well it works!”
I bought some shoes once from a company whose promotional material included the line “these shoes keep the devil away — just look around, do you see him?”
The shoes fell apart quickly… but it was a good line, and one that I’m reminded of often, whenever I’m told how well various preventative measures are working…
The question to King Shit, Zion Con Don should be why should we take in Jews fleeing war torn areas? Honestly, there should be a limitation on ALL immigration because frankly, we’re full. The legal immigration simply doesn’t cut it anymore.
Trump is a SELECTED showman. Nothing more. Make America…um, Israel Great Again.
What, no keep your head up your ass reply?
You’re one of those loud mouth cowards that does a drive by post and can’t back up his bullshit.
Did I hit a nerve? Are you one of those good christian killers for the Uncle Sam mafia?