Hillary supported immigration ban

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Hillary Clinton Exploits Trump Outrage for Personal Gain

Indeed, Hillary supported sending children immigrants back to their home in other countries, and even supported the banning of Iraqi immigrants from the US at one time.

 

[Fenton Lum]

And she lost.

 

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Here are historical examples of previous Presidents banning immigration as well.

President Barack Obama and his five presidential predecessors have used their executive powers to temporarily ban certain immigrants — including Muslims — from entering the United States.

According to the Washington Examiner, Obama has used his rights as president to put a halt to some immigrants from arriving here six times. This is despite his claim that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's call to temporarily ban Muslims from coming to the U.S. is wrong.

The first time Obama used section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, reports the Examiner, was to stop "immigrants or nonimmigrants" from emigrating to the U.S. under a broader ban instituted by the United Nations in 2011.

That 2011 order, reports The Daily Caller, covered "anyone under a UN travel ban; anyone who violates any of 29 executive orders regarding transactions with terrorists, those who undermine the democratic process in specific countries, or transnational criminal organizations."

Former President George W. Bush used the executive powers six times as well, and Bill Clinton did twice, reports The Daily Caller.

Before Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter instituted bans using their executive powers a combined seven times.

Trump has said for months, including this week after the Orlando terror attacks, he wants to stop Muslims from emigrating to the U.S. "until we figure out what the hell is going on."

According to the Examiner, Obama's executive actions on stopping immigration have involved people helping Iran, Syria, and Crimea. Iran and Syria are predominately Muslim countries.

Obama disagrees with Trump's call to ban Muslims, and said this week he still plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in America by October

 

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Where was all the hysteria when other Presidents did this?

 

[BluesLegend]

Where was all the hysteria when other Presidents did this?

Its okay if an establishment president does it. /sarcasm

 

[JakeStarkey]

Clinton lost, guys, and bringing her up only hurts your cause.

Carter did right, and Trump has done it wrong.

 

[GaryDog]

Where was all the hysteria when other Presidents did this?

The imagined belief that Obama did this is just that....imagined:

Trump’s facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama’s in 2011

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So what’s the difference with Trump’s action?

First, Obama responded to an actual threat — the discovery that two Iraqi refugees had been implicated in bombmaking in Iraq that had targeted U.S. troops. (Iraq, after all, was a war zone.) Under congressional pressure, officials decided to reexamine all previous refugees and impose new screening procedures, which led to a slowdown in processing new applications. Trump, by contrast, issued his executive order without any known triggering threat. (His staff has pointed to attacks unrelated to the countries named in his order.)

Second, Obama did not announce a ban on visa applications. In fact, as seen in Napolitano’s answer to Collins, administration officials danced around that question. There was certainly a lot of news reporting that visa applications had slowed to a trickle. But the Obama administration never said it had a policy to halt all applications. Indeed, it is now clear that no ban was put in place. Even so, the delays did not go unnoticed, so there was a lot of critical news reporting at the time about the angst of Iraqis waiting for approval.

Third, Obama’s policy did not prevent all citizens of that country, including green-card holders, from traveling to the United States. Trump’s policy is much more sweeping, though officials have appeared to pull back from barring permanent U.S. residents.

We have sought comment from the White House and from Obama administration officials and so may update this if more information becomes available. But so far this is worthy of at least Two Pinocchios.

Update: In light of the response from Obama administration officials that there never was a point when Iraqi resettlement was stopped or banned, we are updating this ruling to Three Pinocchios. Iraqi refugee processing was slowed, in response to a specific threat, but it was not halted. The Trump White House, meanwhile, has failed to provide any evidence for its statement.

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