I usually look past Google / Youtube's strong leftist opinions, but this has gone too far..
Annoying Orange put into place a 90 day immigration ban(3 months) on the countries Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. All of which, are declared enemies of the United States, or are in a way lawless societies that we cannot interact with or control.
When Obama was in office, he put into place a 180 day immigration ban(6 months) on Iraq, which is two times longer than Annoying Orange's.
Why do, only now, people including Google speak out against Annoying Orange's immigration ban?
afaik it was a temporary ban on refugees while the state department reviewed their procedure for admitting refugees from a conflict zone into the country.
Besides Annoying Orange's ban being dropped without any real warning, it not only affected refugees but permanent residents and foreign students in the United States. Permanent residents are like your standard immigrants, and they're likely on their way to getting U.S. citizenship or just working here. Students coming from abroad are just studying here in the United States, there's quite a fair amount of them (i think) that are in graduate school. There are plenty of these graduates who end up working in the states after they get out of school or help with research in American universities, if we were to exclude them, their talents would be employed by other countries and America would lose its competitive edge in that regard, probably because people don't take school quite as seriously here as other countries that
have the same sort of institutions the U.S. does. Furthermore, I only see the ban being extended in perpetuity, so after the ban is supposed to expire it will just be renewed again and again, and for what? How do countries like Iran, Sudan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen pose a direct
existential threat to the United States? Sure, these countries may be in the gutter, lacking competent governance or not wanting to play ball with America (I don't blame Iran for considering the U.S. an enemy), but the ban adversely affects those permanent residents who contribute to their local communities through tax revenue and participation in the economy, as well as the students who were motivated enough to study at the universities in our country. The U.S. could use more highly skilled workers that come from the ranks of students who choose to work in the states after their graduation.
And I guess U.S. companies will have a harder time of finding workers with some obscure specialty, there aren't enough of those in the states to hire only Americans, because we seem to be lacking in human capital.
