After several weeks of claims that President Trump was going to issue a new executive order on his ban of people from seven Muslim majority states, the order was finally reissued today, but conspicuously with only six nations included as Iraq was surprisingly removed.
This was said to be the result of intense lobbying by the Iraqi government, with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today declaring Iraq “an important ally” and insisting that a deal was now in place to prevent Iraqi terrorists entering the United States.
Tillerson praised Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder Abadi for “supporting” the ban, and while Iraqi officials expressed gratitude that they’re not banned this time around, it’s not at all clear that they are openly supporting the ban on the other nations, which includes their close ally Iran.
The ban is expected to face another round of legal challenges, like the ones which ultimately killed the last one. While the removal of Iraq may reduce some of the heaviest lobbying influence against the ban, that removing them was such a simple matter is likely to add to legal arguments that the bans are not necessary.
Decent grownups prevailed the last time so let’s hope that happens again. Likely not because it’s pretty well essential that Trump’s supporter hate for Muslims needs to be satisfied with some red meat from Trump.
You don’t consider the phony judges decent grownups do you ? These Judges are acting way beyond their responsibility . Making decisions that are not theirs to make . They should be impeached because they don’t understand the law
So Tillerson says we have something in place to keep Iraqi “terrorists” from entering the US. How about we do that with the 6 other countries? Or was Rex just blowing smoke up our a**?