jpishgar :
Nope. Cite the facts you assert are missing. Do not attack the messenger. Dispute the message. Otherwise your comments will be removed. Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement is in effect here.
-JP
OK, What is missing is the 109 that got detained in the first few hours were released into america within the first 24hrs. You guys kind of left that out. You also left out that Obama did the same thing for 6 months in 2011.
The temp ban is "excluding those foreign nationals traveling on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3, and G-4 visas"
Also missing, 1million people came in (500K of those are foreign nationals) in the first 72hrs. Of the million, only 721 were denied boarding from the AFFECTED countries (that would be the 7 Obama picked on too for 6 months). During the same time they processed over 1100 waivers for visa holders etc. LAWFUL perm residents and visa holders ARE allowed to board. Passport holders present it and come right in (dual's etc). This sounds like a very successful EO. There was more chaos caused by people protesting (thus blocking citizens from getting where they are trying to go) than by the inconvenience of <.1% of 1million flyers. Reality check please. Also note 872 refugees will be given waivers this week. That's 872 more than I want from these 7 locations
Safe zones OK, refugees no way.
I'm fairly certain Google, MSFT etc don't have many people working for them coming from the 7 countries. Libya and Somalia are completely failed govt's overrun by terrorists right now. If you're actually flying in from these places as a tech worker, what the heck were you doing going there? I want you checked, pass a lie detector, denounce sharia law etc
😉 I really don't expect any "innovative" people to be coming from refugees of these 7 countries and we are NOT closing our border at all to immigrants. Unless I missed it, NONE of the people whining in this article (tech giants) would have had their families banned since they are NOT from these 7 countries. Right? A temp pause on 7 terrorist hot spots does not stop anyone from Britain, Germany, China, France etc etc etc.
"Silicon Valley has united against the executive order barring immigrants and effectively closing the country's border."
Umm, who closed the border and BARRED immigrants? Is this a tomshardware post that started this thread (1st post says this crap)? Did trump stop the 1million that FLEW into our country over the last 72hrs? I wasn't aware DHS/CBP denied a million flyers and stopped ALL TRAFFIC. I'm sure I would have heard if our borders suddenly COMPLETELY closed. Is tomshardware saying DHS/CBP just lied on national TV?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRFqlCYQ6s
Feel free to watch what they actually said. Might want to add a few details to the article which currently is just leftist FUD when not including ALL sides of the info. It would seem as though all the TECH people would be just "slowed" and given waivers as CBP guy notes.
Tomshardware should not be posting political hack news that can't be verified as true. Unless they have evidence ANY workers from tech companies were deported or even detained coming in (for more than a few hours or heck a day even, whatever), we don't have a tech ban right? I might have to boycott AMD after this junk. Shame on all these companies complaining about possibly saving USA citizens from terrorist hot spots. I think AMD just lost my possible ZEN purchase (probably Vega too, especially with Nvidia being silent - AMEN). I would certainly rather be SAFE than sorry. Can you imagine the news attack if a bomb blew up in trumps first few weeks? They are already having a meltdown.
Regarding your post with where engineering degrees come from. How many of the iranians get their degree HERE (on our dime, and possibly go back to make bombs/ballistic missle tests etc)? Besides that, I'll pass on all of them, and take all the ones from the other countries in your link
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Affected (held up for a few hours then waivered? LOL) and BANNED are two totally different words. Please ask all the tech companies in the article to let us all know when their employee is INDEFINITELY BLOCKED from entry. Until then, blah blah blah, I can't hear you.