As Protests Escalate, Trump Retreats From Barring Green Card Holders

this is great, the repukes are sealing their fate come the elections in 2018. They are going to loose so f*&*^ing bad, unless of course they can gerrymander even more districts.

The Order never did apply to green card holders.

Don’t any of you so-called ‘journalists’ READ the basis for your ‘news’?

Jeez. Get another career. Maybe the National Enquirer is hiring; more your speed.

OMFG.

Will you give it a rest w/ the embedded tweets? I don’t even think Buzzfeed or HuffPo embed as many in one article as you just did.

Sheesh

To be a “detainee”, don’t you actually need to be “Detained”?

If “not sprinting through Customs unabated” is considered “detention”, then I have been detained dozens of times…

“Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas”
“Applicants are sometimes cleared in less than a month and the critics say the government is essentially selling visas to wealthy foreigners with no proven skills, paving the way for money laundering and compromising national security.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-07/trump-tower-financed-by-rich-chinese-who-invest-cash-for-visas

I suspect there are some rich Middle Eastern investors with the coveted EB-5 green card that live in the banned nations. The EB-5 requires a $500,000 investment, typically in real estate construction.

Trump is like any other bully. He needs to know that he can’t get away with his bullying. This is a small victory, but it gives insight into the psyche of him and his (bigoted) team. Keep pushing back!

TITLE 18 USC 241 & 242

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241
Conspiracy Against Rights
This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).

It further makes it unlawful for two or more persons to go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another with the intent to prevent or hinder his/her free exercise or enjoyment of any rights so secured.

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.

This law further prohibits a person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to willfully subject or cause to be subjected any person to different punishments, pains, or penalties, than those prescribed for punishment of citizens on account of such person being an alien or by reason of his/her color or race.

Acts under “color of any law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under “color of any law,” the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. This definition includes, in addition to law enforcement officials, individuals such as Mayors, Council persons, Judges, Nursing Home Proprietors, Security Guards, etc., persons who are bound by laws, statutes ordinances, or customs.

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both, and if bodily injury results or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire shall be fined or imprisoned up to ten years or both, and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
“Kidnapping occurs when a person, without lawful authority, physically asports (i.e., moves) another person without that other person’s consent”. —Legal Dictionary— Any Law enforcement agent and their Superiors who violate a person Civil Rights by False arrest may be charged with Kidnapping!

This is simply tossing the dog a bone, but it will work. For example, the tech companies must be relieved. This probably addresses their chief concern, continued access to cheap labor, so they can now go back to kissing up to Trump to get those overseas profits repatriated.

It’s obvious that conservatives have been using a bull rush technique to distract and divide the opposition. This strategic tacking on greed cards means nothing in terms of the overall picture, which is horrifying.

The only good news is that the political pendulum has swept so far to the right that it has to swing back left.

Not sure we could have woken up the sleeping giant of the American democracy if Hillary had won. But now there will finally be change and it WILL finally be moving left as people are starting to see how phucked up America is from the things both Dem and Repub have done!

Democracy is alive and well in the U.S. it was just sleeping when Trump ran for office. Now it’s awake. Thank you Donald Trump. asshole

Or a deliberate and planned for reversal, so the WH can show it listens to the people, and reduce the negativity and protests against all the remaining terrible aspects of the EO.

This seems like a strategy. Implement a dreadful law. Wait for protests. Then withdraw parts of the law. Watch the protests subside. The remaining part stays till another government decides to amend it.