EU citizens don’t need a visa to come to the US on vacation, no, just a passport.

Also, another easier option would be to radicalize EU citizens. You don’t need a visa to travel from the EU to the US, just a valid passport. Having a terrorist impersonate a refugee from Syria would be like the hardest possible way to send a terrorist to attack the US.

Also, the SB shooter’s wife was from Pakistan and the Chattanooga guy was from Kuwait, so this ban wouldn’t have applied to either of them anyway.

Yes, all the “bad dudes” would have “rushed in” next week to apply for a refugee visa, so they can come to the US after 2 years of heavy vetting by multiple agencies...... okay there dude.

I know an immigration lawyer who went to one of the airports to help out. He reported that CBP is siding with the administration over a judge’s order, and mentioned something about the state National Guard had or was going to come out and force customs to comply with the judge’s orders.

People were literally standing in front of his house chanting “no hate, no fear, refugees are welcome here”, and “hands too small, can’t build a wall”. That’s a little harder to manage. 😉

The one in DC wasn’t really unplanned. Just planned at the last minute, on Facebook. The group that organized it announced it on Friday and it was promoted by word of mouth. While they didn’t get permits, the cops clearly knew about it and blocked off Pennsylvania Ave from traffic si we could march on the street.

Or have a generic sign- saw a couple like “stop doing unconstitutional stuff” in DC today. 😁

Did you see the sign that said “see you guys next week”?

I heard about this from an Iranian-American woman I know who has a family member who is in this situation, but here’s a couple articles:

For some reason I thought he was dead and that you were joking.

You’re not. Permanent residents who were overseas when the order went into effect are being denied reentry into the US.

Not only refugees are being turned away, though that is very tragic and unfortunate. US permanent residents - green card holders - who are currently overseas are also being turned away and told they can’t come back to the US. They can’t come back to their home where they’ve lived for years, where they have a job and…

WMATA has decent service, but it doesn’t really make up for the difference in cost of living between DC and even, say, Frederick, let alone “middle America”.

1. Yeah, that’s a thorny one.

“White pride” is a code-word for “white supremecy”. “Whiteness” isn’t an ethnicity, it’s a social construct created in the early/mid 2oth century to unify Americans who come from different European ethnic groups, in order to maintain a white majority in the US.  

And in most parts of the US, $30,000/year is enough to rent an apartment and own a car. In DC, it’s really not, unless maybe you can get an income-restricted apartment.

DC is expensive. High cost-of-living, high rents, and high wages. $30,000 is not much there, especially if you have a college degree. Like most government jobs, you can almost certainly make a lot more in the private sector.

Would it help to have multiple people there to check the names off? That’s what they do where I live - they have the list broken down by last name, so that they can have a table with few different people checking names. But, I usually end up voting in the mid-morning anyway, when it’s not very busy, so I’m not sure…

They were, apparently, expecting 50,000 attendees.