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applegrove

(118,809 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:41 PM Jan 2020

Trump to Expand Travel Ban List

Trump to Expand Travel Ban List

January 21, 2020 at 4:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 98 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/21/trump-to-expand-travel-ban-list/

"SNIP.....

“The Trump administration plans to add to the number of countries covered under its travel ban, including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, along with others in Africa and Asia,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The administration plans to place visa restrictions on seven new countries: Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania.”

......SNIP"

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Trump to Expand Travel Ban List (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2020 OP
Of course. MontanaMama Jan 2020 #1
See the show... Newest Reality Jan 2020 #2
Belarus? The Russian puppet state? mwooldri Jan 2020 #3
He's just picking countries who have a lot of immigrants looking for applegrove Jan 2020 #4
I don't understand Belarus either. dewsgirl Jan 2020 #5
Wow what's going on with Eritrea gopiscrap Jan 2020 #6
There was a war. Canada accepted many eritrean refugees because applegrove Jan 2020 #7
when we were there it seemed to not be happening gopiscrap Jan 2020 #8
Yes. I hope the war is over. So traumatizing for eritreans to see all the drownings applegrove Jan 2020 #9

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
1. Of course.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:47 PM
Jan 2020

Why wouldn't he? When the Sentate refuses to convict, the MF will be emboldened like we could only imagine. We ain't see nothing yet.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. See the show...
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:56 PM
Jan 2020

One side says, "See! Heesa purtectun us!" or, "Keepem furiners outta here!"

The rest of us know what's up with that, but one goal and benefit is to feign some sort of potential terrorism that may be immenant. That way, he keeps the base resolved in their xenophobia and injects fear and/or paranoia into the mainstream.

It's rather devious and seems to be something it is not. That's how you condition the public and destroy a system. We have a malignancy that is spreading deep into the marrow of our country and it the acting holder of high office.

Time to take the Trumponoma with all the scheming, acting and faking to play both sides, out of our body politic and then recover. Impeachment therapy is what has been called for. It is our chemo and radiation treatment.

Let's hope the patient makes it and the spreading stops.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
3. Belarus? The Russian puppet state?
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 07:20 PM
Jan 2020

I don't understand why Belarus would be under a travel ban. Certain people in Eritrea I get (Africa's version. Of North Korea), but the country as a whole I don't get either. Burma I don't get as it is majority Buddhist but if it is because of the Rakhine I can understand unless it is to keep the Rakhine out.. Sudan I understand because it would be majority Muslim, as is Kyrgyzstan (but why, since it is former USSR?) Nigeria has a significant Muslim population, and it's a "shithole country", same for Tanzania (though it is majority Christian and a de facto one party state)

Travel bans make no sense to me.

applegrove

(118,809 posts)
4. He's just picking countries who have a lot of immigrants looking for
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 07:28 PM
Jan 2020

a safer country or jobs. Immigrants do better than regular citizens in the USA. They are thrilled to have work. Canada would stink without immigrants from all these countries Trump has or will ban. Maybe he is looking to create outrage again so he can connect to his base.

applegrove

(118,809 posts)
7. There was a war. Canada accepted many eritrean refugees because
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 09:46 PM
Jan 2020

of that. Now they have a despot who has closed the country in and bullies eritreans abroad who still have family in eritrea to send money to the government. That was a few years ago. Don't know what is happening now.

gopiscrap

(23,765 posts)
8. when we were there it seemed to not be happening
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 12:03 AM
Jan 2020

Both Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace agreement in September of 2018

applegrove

(118,809 posts)
9. Yes. I hope the war is over. So traumatizing for eritreans to see all the drownings
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 12:06 AM
Jan 2020

in the Mediterranean over the last 5 years of eritreans and others. Traumatizing for anyone.

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