Wyrd can we get one thing straight here. The complaints aren't about the fact that countries are banned from traveling to the US, as you point out, we've been banning certain countries for years.
The complaints are that the executive order denies entry to legal US residents simply because they are citizens of those countries. Those people have lives in the US, they work here, they came here legally, they pay taxes. Their crime was going on vacation or leaving the U.S. temporarily while this order was being signed. That's all they did. There are plenty of residents from those 7 countries that are currently living in the U.S. and this order now means they cannot leave the U.S. because they won't be allowed back in. How ridiculous is that. They are OK to live here but once they leave for even a day trip to Canada they can't come back?
Please stop with the rhetoric and "snowflake" comments, it doesn't help your argument. I'm a legal US resident. Explain to me why I should be denied re-entry back to the country I now call home if I didn't commit a crime, abided by all the legal requirements of my residency, but just so happened to originally come from a country that is now on this list.
The complaints are that the executive order denies entry to legal US residents simply because they are citizens of those countries. Those people have lives in the US, they work here, they came here legally, they pay taxes. Their crime was going on vacation or leaving the U.S. temporarily while this order was being signed. That's all they did. There are plenty of residents from those 7 countries that are currently living in the U.S. and this order now means they cannot leave the U.S. because they won't be allowed back in. How ridiculous is that. They are OK to live here but once they leave for even a day trip to Canada they can't come back?
Please stop with the rhetoric and "snowflake" comments, it doesn't help your argument. I'm a legal US resident. Explain to me why I should be denied re-entry back to the country I now call home if I didn't commit a crime, abided by all the legal requirements of my residency, but just so happened to originally come from a country that is now on this list.
