Trumps Immigration Strategy.
The hot topic of the day, is President Donald Trump’s mandated immigration policy with regard to entry into the United States of immigrants from certain Islamic dominated countries. His ostensible motive as he has declared it to be, is to make America safe from the possibility of allowing terrorists, or would be terrorists, from entering into his country under his watch. Now if one is honest with one’s self, one would have to admit that there is little wrong with his expressed intention. Who does not want to keep his country safe? What if I may say so is wrong is not the policy, but its implementation. I assume there are people at the back of the President, including legal advisers, who advise him. Unless Trump is an absolute autocrat, I would find it strange if no one advised him that he could achieve his objective by subtler, less ostensibly offensive means. For example in a position to advise, I would have advised that the person in charge of Homeland Security would be instructed to be vigilant in screening would be entrants into the United States. When one is vetting, one looks for “Red Flags.” Immigration officials would then have as part of their vetting materials, highlighted red flags, for example, people from listed, and not necessarily published countries. In other words, officers would see red flags based on the individual, his country of origin; his antecedents and his stated purpose of visit and like criteria, without stigmatizing as is the present case, persons from particular countries. Frankly, I do not think that the President’s policies have anything to do with race or religion; but an over-zealous desire to make his country safe. Love me hate me, these are my thoughts.
The hot topic of the day, is President Donald Trump’s mandated immigration policy with regard to entry into the United States of immigrants from certain Islamic dominated countries. His ostensible motive as he has declared it to be, is to make America safe from the possibility of allowing terrorists, or would be terrorists, from entering into his country under his watch. Now if one is honest with one’s self, one would have to admit that there is little wrong with his expressed intention. Who does not want to keep his country safe? What if I may say so is wrong is not the policy, but its implementation. I assume there are people at the back of the President, including legal advisers, who advise him. Unless Trump is an absolute autocrat, I would find it strange if no one advised him that he could achieve his objective by subtler, less ostensibly offensive means. For example in a position to advise, I would have advised that the person in charge of Homeland Security would be instructed to be vigilant in screening would be entrants into the United States. When one is vetting, one looks for “Red Flags.” Immigration officials would then have as part of their vetting materials, highlighted red flags, for example, people from listed, and not necessarily published countries. In other words, officers would see red flags based on the individual, his country of origin; his antecedents and his stated purpose of visit and like criteria, without stigmatizing as is the present case, persons from particular countries. Frankly, I do not think that the President’s policies have anything to do with race or religion; but an over-zealous desire to make his country safe. Love me hate me, these are my thoughts.
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