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Wednesday, February 01, 2017

WSJ’s Strassel: No Protests, Lawsuits When Obama Paused Iraqi Immigration in 2011

On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel reminded viewers that nobody protested or filed lawsuits in 2011 when former President Barack Obama suspended Iraqi refugees from entering the United States for six months over terrorism fears, although President Donald Trump has received much criticism for temporarily suspending visas for “immigrants and non-immigrants” from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Iran and Iraq.

“Look, this is also not unprecedented, by the way,” Strassel said. “I mean, Barack Obama put a pause for six months on refugees coming from Iraq back in 2011. I don’t remember protestors and I don’t remember lawsuits.."

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

'Cause nobody paid protestors to riot.

Anonymous said...

He's African American, you can't be "racist" if you are African American.(Even though Muslim is a religion, shhhh don't tell the idiots)