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Donald Trump's Presidency

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Several Muslim majority nations where the Trump Organisation is active and which in some cases have faced troublesome issues with terrorism, do not figure in the list of the countries whose citizens were banned from entering the US. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen which are targeted by US President Donald Trump in his executive order on Friday, are the nations where he does not have any business interests, a report in the Washington Post said. The "extreme vetting" bars all entry by travellers from these countries for the next 90 days. The White House has avoided angering some more powerful and wealthy Muslim majority allies such as Egypt. The new President is facing questions whether he designed the new rules with his own business in mind. "He needs to sell his businesses outside his family and place the assets in a blind trust, otherwise every decision he makes people will question if he's doing it in the interests of the American people or his own bottom line," said Jordan Libowitz, the spokesman for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal watchdog group. The group has filed a lawsuit arguing that Trump is already in violation of a constitutional provision barring federal officials from accepting payments from foreign officials. Earlier in the week, Norm Eisen, the group's chairman and a former ethics adviser to former President Barack Obama, tweeted: "Warning: President your Muslim ban excludes countries where you have business interests. That is a ­Constitutional violation. See u in court."

Read more at: http://www.sify.com/news/trump-ban-...usiness-news-international-rb3nEeggcicfh.html
 
Will the world respect Trump? May not be...Who cares? Trump is not bothered..His only fix is to make America Great --but only for its citizens!

[h=1]Trump defends his executive orders, says world a horrible mess[/h]January 29, 2017 20:50


US President Donald Trump today defended his controversial executive orders on immigration, borders and extreme vetting of refugees, saying that the world is a "horrible mess" and America needs "strong borders".


"Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world - a horrible mess!" Trump said in an early morning tweet.


In his first week in office as US President, Trump has signed several executive orders that immediately stops entry of refugees and temporarily ban issuing of visas to people from seven Muslim-majority countries and extreme vetting for others.


The executive orders has resulted in outrage among the opposition Democratic leaders, human rights bodies and a large section of the American tech-industry, including from Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...orrible-mess/262f012ae5ad1d4d5582dfd864f6b8a6
 
Why the M refugees are trooping to US...Why not to those 51 countries where they are majority..Valid issue raised by Trump!

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[FONT=&quot]Trump has been trying to govern by impulse, on whim, for personal retribution, for profit, by decree ― as if he had been elected dictator. It doesn’t work, and the wheels are coming off the bus. After a week! Impeachment is gaining ground because it is the only way to get him out, and because Republicans are already deserting this president in droves, and because the man is psychiatrically incapable of checking whether something is legal before he does it. Impeachment is gaining ground because it’s so horribly clear that Trump is unfit for office. The grownups around Trump, even the most slavishly loyal ones, spend half their time trying to rein him in, but it can’t be done. [/FONT]https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/f89cfc3b-3eae-34d2-9bd3-ea57aa4cbb98/ss_the-inevitability-of.html
 
Don’t get euphoric because Narendra Modi was fifth in the list of world leaders to be phoned by Donald Trump on assuming office. Before phoning Modi, Trump called the president of Mexico, whom he has now kicked in the testicles by declaring that he will force Mexico to pay for the new border wall. Canada was higher on Trump’s phone list than India, and he has warned Canada that the NAFTA treaty must be renegotiated in America’s favour. Being high on Trump’s phone list is at best irrelevant and at worst a warning.
Forget Trump’s breezy declarations of friendship to Modi. This means no more than his telling Nawaz Sharif in December that he was “a terrific guy”. Trump wants “friends” that do his bidding. Doormats are most welcome.

He is a raging bull, raging against his country’s relative decline. He will trample those in the way of his “America First” approach, including close historical allies like NATO and Japan. India is not important enough for him to target immediately. But, make no mistake, he will not spare India his neo-protectionist, neo-isolationist avatar. He is willing to scrap the liberal economic consensus that the US forged in the 20th century, helping it win the Cold War. This is going to hurt all those who gained from that liberal, globalising era, including India.

Maybe the Trump approach will fail, and the US will revert to normal. Protectionist tantrums are common but temporary in democracies, and maybe this one will pass. But there is a major risk that the globalising, liberal economic order of the 20th century is over. India must prepare for a new, more inward-looking world, one that includes outright trade wars.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Swaminomics/trumps-no-ally-of-india-handle-him-with-care/
 
...++ because the man is psychiatrically incapable of checking whether something is legal before he does it. Impeachment is gaining ground because it’s so horribly clear that Trump is unfit for office. The grownups around Trump, even the most slavishly loyal ones, spend half their time trying to rein him in, but it can’t be done. https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/f89cfc3b-3eae-34d2-9bd3-ea57aa4cbb98/ss_the-inevitability-of.html
Trump does not know what is legal and what the American constitution is since he has neither studied law or read the constitution. People like me who became naturalized citizens all have a copy of the constitution provided to us when we took the oath of citizenship. I had read it then and and I read it again recently to refresh all the relevant clauses etc. Trump is absolutely incapable and his nearest advisers, Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannen are both absolute frauds and paid heavily by Trump to act on his behalf. Kellyanne has condemned Trump as incompetent etc when she was on a TV show in 2015 and now she is his top adviser. A total Fraud. Steve Bannen is an Alt Right movement leader and his views are totally against any decency according to most Americans.
America is doing a dangerous experiment with a President who is mentally unstable.
How long will this last, only God knows.
 
Source:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...on-immigration-to-hit-closer-to-home-for-tech

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President Donald Trump’s clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious.

After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country’s principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation. Trump’s next steps could strike even closer to home: His administration has drafted an executive order aimed at overhauling the work-visa programs technology companies depend on to hire tens of thousands of employees each year.

If implemented, the reforms could shift the way American companies like Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. recruit talent and force wholesale changes at Indian companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Wipro Ltd. Businesses would have to try to hire American first and if they recruit foreign workers, priority would be given to the most highly paid.

“Our country’s immigration policies should be designed and implemented to serve, first and foremost, the U.S. national interest,” the draft proposal reads, according to a copy reviewed by Bloomberg. “Visa programs for foreign workers … should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers -- our forgotten working people -- and the jobs they hold.”

The foreign work visas were originally established to help U.S. companies recruit from abroad when they couldn’t find qualified local workers. In many cases, the companies are hiring for highly technical positions in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. But in recent years, there have been allegations the programs have been abused to bring in cheaper workers from overseas to fill jobs that otherwise may go to Americans. The top recipients of the H-1B visas are outsourcers, primarily from India, who run the technology departments of large corporations with largely imported staff.

“Immigrant STEM workers have contributed an outsize share to founding new companies, getting patents, and helping build up American companies, which in turn because of their success have created tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs,” said Gary Burtless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who does research in labor markets. “Discouraging such people to apply for visas to enter the United States to work -- I can’t imagine how that can be considered to be in the American national interest.”

The Trump administration did not respond to a request for comment on the draft. The proposal is consistent with the president’s public comments on pushing companies to add more jobs to the U.S., from auto manufacturing to technology.


It’s not clear how much force the executive order would have if it is signed by the president. Congress is also working on visa reforms and the parties will have to cooperate to pass new laws. Zoe Lofgren, a Democratic congresswoman from California, introduced a bill last week to tighten requirements for the H-1B work visa program.

“My legislation refocuses the H-1B program to its original intent – to seek out and find the best and brightest from around the world, and to supplement the U.S. workforce with talented, highly-paid, and highly-skilled workers,” Lofgren said in a statement.

India’s technology companies, led by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Infosys and Wipro, have argued they are helping corporations become more competitive by handling their technology operations with specialized staff. They also contend the visa programs allow them to keep jobs in the U.S. and that if they have to pay more for staff, they will handle more of the work remotely from less expensive markets like India.

“Inspections and investigations in the past have shown no cases of wrongdoing by Indian IT services companies, which have always been fully compliant with the law,” said R Chandrashekhar, president of Nasscom, the trade group for India’s information technology sector. “The industry is open to any kind of checks in the system, but they should not cause any hindrance to the smooth operation of companies.”

Wipro and TCS declined to comment for this story.

A spokeswoman for Infosys said the company is monitoring the U.S. visa proposals, but it is too early to assess their impact given the uncertainty of what will be approved.

“We continue to hire and invest locally,” the company said in an e-mail. “However, given the skill shortages in the U.S. and the availability of technically skilled workforce in various global markets, we also rely upon visa programs to supplement these skills. For the long term, we are also exploring new operating models to ensure business continuity as we navigate this dynamic environment. This includes reducing our visa dependency and efforts towards making Infosys a preferred employer in the U.S.”

The draft of Trump’s executive order covers an alphabet soup of visa programs, including H-1B, L-1, E-2 and B1. The first is a popular program with technology companies and is aimed at allowing them to bring in high-skill workers when they can’t find local hires with the appropriate skills. The legislation caps the number of people who can enter the U.S. annually at 85,000, including those with undergrad and master’s degrees.

In recent years though, outsourcing companies have received the most H-1B visas, while other tech companies have struggled to get all they want. In 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, the top five recipients were all outsourcing companies, led by Tata Consultancy.



Ron Hira, an associate professor at Howard University, who has done extensive research on the subject, points out workers at outsourcers are typically not treated as well as others. The median wage at outsourcing firms for H-1B workers was less than $70,000, while Apple, Google and Microsoft paid their employees in the program more than $100,000, according to data he collected. That suggests the American companies are going after true, highly skilled employees, while the outsourcers are recruiting less expensive talent, he said.
The proposed Trump order is also aimed at bringing more transparency to the program. It calls for publishing reports with basic statistics on who uses the immigration programs within one month of the end of the government’s fiscal year. The Obama administration had scaled back the information available on the programs and required Freedom of Information Act requests for some data.

Whatever specific changes are implemented, they are likely to add to the expenses for India’s technology companies. That may accelerate a shift to new kinds of services, such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, said Raja Lahiri, partner at the Mumbai-based partner at consultancy Grant Thornton India

“The visa challenges are not going to go away easily,” he said. “They will continue to be a challenge for Indian IT companies.”
 
Will Trump be impeached? Hot topic now!!

Was Trump’s executive order an impeachable offense?

By David Post January 30 at 10:34 AM
Trump's executive order on refugees, explained

My co-bloggers Ilya Somin, Jon Adler, Orin Kerr and Will Baude — not to mention Ben Wittes’s withering critique over at Lawfare — have already dissected President Trump’s executive order (misleadingly titled “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals”) (full text here) and addressed many of its more appalling features, including its cruelty, ineffectiveness and the truly staggering incompetence with which it was drafted.
But there’s more. Wittes correctly points to the absence of any “rational relationship” between the countries targeted by the ban and “any expected counterterrorism goods.”
The 9/11 hijackers, after all, didn’t come from Somalia or Syria or Iran; they came from Saudi Arabia and Egypt and a few other countries not affected by the order.
But there could be, it turns out, an explanation for why some countries are inside, and others outside, the ban. It has nothing to do with counterterrorism. You should take a quick look at this graphic (and accompanying documentation) put together by Bloomberg News. Here’s the list of predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East covered by Trump’s order:
Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen.
Here’s the list of predominantly Muslim countries where the Trump Organization has done business:
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan.
What a coincidence; there’s no overlap. The places where the Trump Organization has done business are exempted from the ban.
Even Saudi Arabia, for goodness’ sake! The one country we know for certain has allowed, if it did not actively encourage, emigrants who attacked the United States on 9/11. But Trump has business interests in Saudi Arabia, and a guy shouldn’t have to give up his business interests just because he’s going into “public service,” now should he?
This adds up to malfeasance of the highest order. Can we now stop the debate about whether Trump’s business interests might influence his policymaking, and move on to the more important question, which is how do we protect ourselves from this despot and start the work of getting him removed from office?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-impeachable-offense/?utm_term=.f9a3169cc991
 
The Immigration Ban is a Headfake, and We’re Falling For It

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https://medium.com/@jakefuentes/the...d-were-falling-for-it-b8910e78f0c5#.51vx9ly9g

This blog is written for US audience by a US Citizen
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When I read about the incredibly active first week of the Trump administration, I struggle with two competing narratives about what’s really going on. The first story is simple: the administration is just doing what it said it would do, literally keeping its campaign promises. Lots of people won’t agree, but it’s playing to its base. They’re also not really good at this whole government thing yet, so implementation is shaky. The second is more sinister: the administration is deliberately testing the limits of governmental checks and balances to set up a self-serving, dangerous consolidation of power.

A legitimate argument can be made for the former: a relatively extreme and inexperienced administration was just put in place, and they haven’t yet figured out the nuances of government. But a few of the events in the past 72 hours —the intentional inclusion of green card holders in the immigration order, the DHS defiance of a federal judge, and the timing of Trump’s shakeup of the National Security Council — have pointed to a larger story. Even worse, if that larger story is true, if the source of this week’s actions is a play to consolidate power, it’s going really well so far. And that’s because mostly everyone — including those in protests shutting down airports over the weekend— are playing right into the administration’s hand.

I obviously can’t pretend to know the intentions of the new President, but let’s pretend the power consolidation move is what’s actually happening. In fact, let’s pretend we’re the Trump administration (not necessarily Trump himself, more likely his inner circle) for a second. Here’s our playbook:

We launch a series of Executive Orders in the first week. Beforehand, we identify one that our opponents will complain loudly about and will dominate the news cycle. Immigration ban. Perfect.

We craft the ban to be about 20% more extreme than we actually want it to be — say, let’s make the explicit decision to block green card holders from defined countries from entering the US, rather than just visa holders. We create some confusion so that we can walk back from that part later, but let’s make sure that it’s enforced to begin with.

We watch our opposition pour out into the streets protesting the extremes of our public measure, exactly as we intended. The protests dominate the news, but our base doesn’t watch CNN anyway. The ACLU will file motions to oppose the most extreme parts of our measure, that’s actually going to be useful too. We don’t actually care if we win, that’s why we made it more extreme than it needed to be. But in doing so, the lawsuit process will test the loyalty of those enforcing what we say.

While the nation’s attention is on our extreme EO, slip a few more nuanced moves through. For example, reconfigure the National Security Council so that it’s led by our inner circle. Or gut the State Department’s ability to resist more extreme moves. That will have massive benefits down the road — the NSC are the folks that authorize secret assassinations against enemies of the state, including American citizens. Almost nobody has time to analyze that move closely, and those that do can’t get coverage.

When the lawsuits filed by the ACLU inevitably succeed, stay silent. Don’t tell the DHS to abide by the what the federal judge says, see what they do on their own. If they capitulate to the courts, we know our power with the DHS is limited and we need to staff it with more loyal people. But if they continue enforcing our EO until we tell them not to, we know that we can completely ignore the judicial branch later on and the DHS will have our back.

Once the DHS has made their move, walk back from the 20% we didn’t want in the first place. Let the green card holders in, and pretend that’s what we meant all along. The protestors and the ACLU, both clamoring to display their efficacy, jump on the moment to declare a huge victory. The crowds dissipate, they have to go back to work.

When the dust settles, we have 100% of the Executive Order we originally wanted, we’ve tested the loyalty of a department we’ll need later on, we’ve proven we can ignore an entire branch of government, and we’ve slipped in some subtle moves that will make the next test even easier.

We’ve just tested the country’s willingness to capitulate to a fascist regime.
Assuming this narrative is true (again, I have no idea what the administration intends), the “resistance” is playing right into Trump’s playbook. The most vocal politicians could be seen at rallies, close to the headlines. The protests themselves did exactly what they were intended to: dominate the news cycle and channel opposition anger towards a relatively insignificant piece of the puzzle. I’m not saying that green card holders should be stuck in airports — far from it. I’m saying there might be a much larger picture here, and the immigration ban is a distraction.

So for those that believe that the power consolidation narrative is true and want to oppose it, how does that happen?
First, stop believing that protests alone do much good. Protests galvanize groups and display strong opposition, but they’re not sufficient. Not only are they relatively ineffective at changing policy, they’re also falsely cathartic to those protesting. Protestors get all kinds of feel-good that they’re among fellow believers and standing up for what’s right, and they go home feeling like they’ve done their part. Even if protestors gain mild, symbolic concessions, the fact that their anger has an outlet is useful to the other side. Do protest, but be very wary of going home feeling like you’ve done your job. You haven’t.

Second, pay journalists to watch for the head fake. That’s their job. Become a paying subscriber to news outlets, then actively ask them to more deeply cover moves like the NSC shakeup. We can no longer breathlessly focus media attention on easy stories like the immigration ban. The real story is much more nuanced and boring — until it’s not.

Third, popular attention must focus less on whether we agree with what the government is doing, and more on whether the system of checks and balances we have in place is working. It is a much bigger deal that the DHS felt they could ignore a federal court than that Trump signed an EO blocking green card holders in the first place. It is a much bigger deal that Trump removed a permanent military presence from the NSC than that he issued a temporary stay on immigration. The immigration ban may be more viscerally upsetting, but the other moves are potentially far more dangerous.

Once again, I’m desperately hoping that none of this narrative is actually true, and that we merely have a well-intentioned administration with some execution problems. I’m also hoping and praying that the structure of our democracy is resilient even to the most sophisticated attacks. I’m hoping that the better angels of our nature will prevail. But with each passing day, the evidence tilts more in the other direction.
 
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Once again, I’m desperately hoping that none of this narrative is actually true, and that we merely have a well-intentioned administration with some execution problems. I’m also hoping and praying that the structure of our democracy is resilient even to the most sophisticated attacks. I’m hoping that the better angels of our nature will prevail. But with each passing day, the evidence tilts more in the other direction.
I think the blogger is a bit confused about HOPE.
That was the Obama presidency when they had a picture portrait of Obama with Word HOPE painted on.
Now its the Trump presidency, with a huge portrait picture of Trump with the word Hopeless painted on it!
 
Source:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...on-immigration-to-hit-closer-to-home-for-tech

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President Donald Trump’s clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious.

After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country’s principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation.

If this ban indeed risked disrupting its engine of innovation, why has not a single mention been made by the blogger of an innovator or path-breaker or a venture capitalist from any of the countries banned for immigration?

Do you know any innovator of such calibre?

Does the opening para of the blog fall under the category of "false notions"..?
 
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If this ban indeed risked disrupting its engine of innovation, why has not a single mention been made by the blogger of an innovator or path-breaker or a venture capitalist from any of the countries banned for immigration?

Do you know any innovator of such calibre?

Does the opening para of the blog fall under the category of "false notions"..?

America is a land of immigrants. Ordinary people were able to accomplish extraordinary things over the past two centuries.
USA still stand for many of the right principles that continue to make the country great.

Arguably a Nadela or a Pitchai could not have achieved in India or elsewhere what they were able to do so in USA

When a policy violates the basic principles by which a country was founded or succeeded, it will be a while before one will see the negative consequences. Focusing on specific examples here and now or focusing on the specific countries being banned misses the whole point.
 
I think the blogger is a bit confused about HOPE.
That was the Obama presidency when they had a picture portrait of Obama with Word HOPE painted on.
Now its the Trump presidency, with a huge portrait picture of Trump with the word Hopeless painted on it!

More than this new executive rule on Immigration which has had a stifling effects, the real danger is that political elements like Steve Bannon is grabbing extraordinary power. Within Presidential system of government, the checks and balances within the executive branch lies primarily with the President.

The NSA has enormous power and its budget is not public knowledge. For a political appointee like Bannon to get a seat at the NSA board is enormous and unprecedented. NSA has sweeping power and has resources to literally execute lots of things that will never be discussed in public.

Bannon used to head the Breitbart news which is the most racist online magazine of its kind. This kind of power grab by alt-right is more concerning than the Presidential overreach in the new Immigration rule (which was authored by Bannon as well).

Hope is not with a person, it tends to be with people. The American people were complacent and did not take their civic duties seriously. I think there is enough awareness that one cannot take their voting rights for granted. Therein lies the hope.
 
America is a land of immigrants.

So is Australia, Canada and India. Remember the original Red Indians of the America, aboriginals of Australia and native tribals of India. This is true of each and every country around the world.

In fact every inhabitant in the world comes from a tiny place near Kenya if theory of migration is to be believed.

Ordinary people were able to accomplish extraordinary things over the past two centuries.

When a policy violates the basic principles by which a country was founded or succeeded, it will be a while before one will see the negative consequences.

The founding principles which ensured such successes are enshrined in the Constitution of USA and in the Bill of Rights. I do not suppose Trump violated any of these, or else he can be impeached.

Did I miss something?


Focusing on specific examples here and now or focusing on the specific countries being banned misses the whole point.

Statistically speaking the chances of immigrants becoming a success would be greater in case of countries like India, China, Russia, Japan, Philipines, Indonesia etc where focus on SCIENCE is emphasized rather than on Somalia or Sudan etc. dont you think?

It would be very interesting to see the response of the same crowds if rules of immigration for Russians are liberalized or relaxed.

Are you not missing the point that there is NO BAN on countries which can make America great but ban is on some inconsequential countries whose track record in the USA of immigrants having achieved a lot of success is near about zero?

I am a bit surprised that you were taken in by the political grand standing of some of the corporates and allowed their false notions and cacophony of the political movement of the just lost election Johneys to cloud your views.
 
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Are you not missing the point that there is NO BAN on countries which can make America great but ban is on some inconsequential countries whose track record in the USA of immigrants having achieved a lot of success is near about zero?
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I think Iranians have been very successful in India and America. They are doctors, lawyers and businessman doing very well. Persians/Parsis in India are Iranians.
It appears that NO BAN applies to countries where Trump may have vested interests. He is on the brink of violating some law or the other pretty soon. Just wait.
 
So is Australia, Canada and India. Remember the original Red Indians of the America, aboriginals of Australia and native tribals of India. This is true of each and every country around the world.

In fact every inhabitant in the world comes from a tiny place near Kenya if theory of migration is to be believed.

The statement "America is a land of immigrants" is a necessary condition for its current culture of success, but not a sufficient condition. Therefore extrapolation without context is not applicable


The founding principles which ensured such successes are enshrined in the Constitution of USA and in the Bill of Rights. I do not suppose Trump violated any of these, or else he can be impeached.

Did I miss something?

Yes.
Let me provide a quote to make the point I was making again
“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”




― Émile Durkheim



Statistically speaking the chances of immigrants becoming a success would be greater in case of countries like India, China, Russia, Japan, Philipines, Indonesia etc where focus on SCIENCE is emphasized rather than on Somalia or Sudan etc. dont you think?

It would be very interesting to see the response of the same crowds if rules of immigration for Russians are liberalized or relaxed.

Are you not missing the point that there is NO BAN on countries which can make America great but ban is on some inconsequential countries whose track record in the USA of immigrants having achieved a lot of success is near about zero?

I am a bit surprised that you were taken in by the political grand standing of some of the corporates and allowed their false notions and cacophony of the political movement of the just lost election Johneys to cloud your views.

Perhaps you may or may not understand this if you have never lived in USA for a good period of time.

The plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

It does not say - 'if you are from Iran or Somalia - Go back'

Yes, laws are necessary for any country to protect itself from terrorist acts no matter where they originate.

My critiques of any administration (in any country) is based on my understanding of the specific context under which a policy is instituted and executed. Not based on what others say though it is a factor for consideration.

The policy probably was quickly rolled out in order to get media and public to talk about something and in the process mask a far reaching power grab by senior political adviser in the Trump administration (Bannon).

NSA (National Security Agency) where Snowden used to work has enormous power including power to collect data over citizens and do other serious things that cannot be even discussed. There is power to stifle the press.

The policy seem to have questionable motive and has not achieved anything. There has not been a single terrorist acts against USA in the last couple of decades and more from the countries affected by this policy and executive order.

Its execution is poor. Not only are there are challenges to the ruling from Judiciary side of the Government in a number of instances, there is also widespread criticism by senior leaders of both parties.

Secretary of States ( a senior most position in the administration) of both parties - namely Rice and Albright - have strong words of criticism.

http://www.politico.com/states/cali...int-rebuke-of-trump-immigration-policy-109285

Policy seem to have suspicious intent and its execution is worse having been rolled out without consultation of experts in major Governmental organizations. It achieved nothing except make a show of detaining 18 month old baby and other law abiding visa holders stranded in transit. This is not a value that most Americans stand for.
 
It is time for NRI and indian americans to remember india.

They simply do not belong to america.

There is reverse migration everywhere.

Only india will take back these elements in US.

A few crores more would not make a difference to india.

Indians are mentally prepared to take back indians in africa,gulf,US and everywhere else.

Good business for airindia. <removed sensitive comment>
 
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Donald Trump represents what Americans are at heart. By saying this I am not saying anything negative against Americans. In fact their traits have what made them overwhelmingly successful. In the present world it is necessary to do away with political correctness unless you are the epitome of spirituality. Donald Trump does exactly that and I think he has chosen the right posture.
 
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It is time for NRI and indian americans to remember india.
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We are now American Citizens with OCI and are always proud of our Homeland (India) which nurtured us.
We will stand and fight for our rights as brave Asian Indians and carry the torch of India's Greatness that lights up America also thanks to our efforts here.
"Trump loves The Hindus"


 
We are now American Citizens with OCI and are always proud of our Homeland (India) which nurtured us.
We will stand and fight for our rights as brave Asian Indians and carry the torch of India's Greatness that lights up America also thanks to our efforts here.
"Trump loves The Hindus"



hi

we are both.....american by choice....india by birth.....
 
We are now American Citizens with OCI and are always proud of our Homeland (India) which nurtured us.
We will stand and fight for our rights as brave Asian Indians and carry the torch of India's Greatness that lights up America also thanks to our efforts here.
"Trump loves The Hindus"



Mostly who hold flames become a candle.

Burn themselves to illuminate others but become a shapless mass of wax after that...

I forsee a great Airlift taking place in the future for those who have no loyalty to country of origin nor country of residence.

Do not ask what Trump has done for you..ask what have you can do for Trump!!!LOL


I dont think majority of immigrants including Indians work in the USA to make USA great..majority work there for USA to make their bank balance great.

Many might be secretly rejoicing about the ban on several Islamic countries in regards to travel/ immigration to USA...god knows which other countries are next on the list.
 
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I believe What Trump has done and is doing are all to a carefully worked out plan. The bluntness of expression of intentions, the severity of the language used, the targets of actions chosen, the readiness to go the full distance come what may, the quickness with which steps are taken are all indicative of a deleberate well planned action. I support him. Just as we need Modi for India, we need Trump for the free world.
 
Mostly who hold flames become a candle.

Burn themselves to illuminate others but become a shapless mass of wax after that...

I forsee a great Airlift taking place in the future for those who have no loyalty to country of origin nor country of residence.

Do not ask what Trump has done for you..ask what have you can do for Trump!!!LOL


I dont think majority of immigrants including Indians work in the USA to make USA great..majority work there for USA to make their bank balance great.

Many might be secretly rejoicing about the ban on several Islamic countries in regards to travel/ immigration to USA...god knows which other countries are next on the list.
Thanks for your hearty comments.
Yes our money making technologies are what made America Great.
Yes we work here to make more than we could in India.
When scientists invent the time machine then we will all go back and change the options to stay back in India and see what the alternate outcome would be.
No we do not enjoy such religious bans. Separation of religion and state is embedded in America's as well as Indian Constitutions.
So we will fight fight this predominantly Muslim Nation ban.
America is a land of immigrants, by immigrants and for immigrants.
The Native Indians also are not doing too bad here.
America needs to take its Worldly leadership much more seriously than what Trump is projecting through his squiggles on pieces of paper in executive leather binders and holding it up like an Orangutan showing off its pen and its writing skills!
 
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