“Federal Appellate Judge William Canby Jr. asked August Flentje, the Justice Department lawyer defending the executive order, which was prepared with no advice from legal or veteran national security officials, How many federal offenses have we had being committed by people that came in with visas from these countries?
Mr. Flentje declined to answer, saying that the litigation was ‘moving very fast.’ He then suggested that ‘a number of people from Somalia may have been’ convicted of terrorist crimes in the United States, but said that the government had not included any of these cases in the record."
Textbook example of a non-issue being used as a political football. Anyone who really believes America can lock out the refugees and remain America is just kidding themselves. More like an excuse for bigotry’s last stand.
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“Federal Appellate Judge William Canby Jr. asked August Flentje, the Justice Department lawyer defending the executive order, which was prepared with no advice from legal or veteran national security officials, How many federal offenses have we had being committed by people that came in with visas from these countries?
Mr. Flentje declined to answer, saying that the litigation was ‘moving very fast.’ He then suggested that ‘a number of people from Somalia may have been’ convicted of terrorist crimes in the United States, but said that the government had not included any of these cases in the record."
Textbook example of a non-issue being used as a political football. Anyone who really believes America can lock out the refugees and remain America is just kidding themselves. More like an excuse for bigotry’s last stand.