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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMalevolence Tempered by Incompetence: Trumps Horrifying Executive Order on Refugees and Visas
The malevolence of President Trumps Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chieflyand perhaps onlyby the astonishing incompetence of its drafting and construction.If the purpose of the order is the one it describes, for example, I can think of no good reason to burden the lives of students individually suspected of nothing who are here lawfully and just happen to be temporarily overseas, or to detain tourists and refugees who were mid-flight when the order came down. I have trouble imagining any reason to raise questions about whether green card holders who have lived here for years can leave the country and then return. Yes, its temporary, and that may lessen the costs (or it may not, depending on the outcome of the policy review the order mandates), but temporarily irrational is still irrational.
Put simply, I dont believe that the stated purpose is the real purpose. This is the first policy the United States has adopted in the post-9/11 era about which I have ever said this. Its a grave charge, I know, and Im not making it lightly. But in the rational pursuit of security objectives, you dont marginalize your expert security agencies and fail to vet your ideas through a normal interagency process. You dont target the wrong people in nutty ways when youre rationally pursuing real security objectives.
When do you do these things? You do these things when youre elevating the symbolic politics of bashing Islam over any actual security interest. You do them when youve made a deliberate decision to burden human lives to make a public point. In other words, this is not a document that will cause hardship and misery because of regrettable incidental impacts on people injured in the pursuit of a public good. It will cause hardship and misery for tens or hundreds of thousands of people because that is precisely what it is intended to do.
https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas
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Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence: Trumps Horrifying Executive Order on Refugees and Visas (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2017
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Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)1. EXactly
procon
(15,805 posts)2. But, Trump says "it's working out very nicely".
In the midst of the international crisis he caused, a Constitutional crisis, and a challenge to the court,
Trump seems quite satisfied with his Muslim Ban. "You see it at the airports. You see it all over. It's working out very nicely and we're going to have a very, very strict ban."
enough
(13,262 posts)3. Great work here by Benjamin Wittes. The entire article is a must read. NT
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)4. Thanks for this!