Trump call for end of chain migration for daca deal.
 

The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump's preferred immigration policies would have prevented the suspect in an attempted New York terrorist attack from entering the country.

The White House offered no evidence about where the suspect was radicalized.

The suspect, Akayed Ullah, 27, came to the US from Bangladesh in 2011 on a visa for children of siblings of US citizens, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Monday. Ullah is a lawful permanent resident, or green card holder, spokesman Tyler Houlton said.


The administration also immediately pointed to so-called chain migration in relation to the attack, a term that describes immigration to the US based on family connections.

"The suspect ... benefited from extended family chain migration," Houlton said in the statement.

Shortly after that, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders made the case that Ullah would not have been in the US if Trump's preferred immigration policy were implemented.

The President has repeatedly called for an end or restrictions on "chain migration," and has endorsed a bill from Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia that would drastically reduce the number of immigrants who can get green cards to stay in the US.

"We know that the President's policy calls for an end to chain migration, which is what this individual came to the United States through, and had his policy been in place, then that attacker would not have been allowed to come into the country," Sanders said.

Sanders could not answer a follow-up question about whether the individual had been radicalized in the United States in the years he's lived here, as have recent terrorist attackers in the US who were not natural born citizens.

She said the incident -- which caused non-life-threatening injuries to three others in addition to Ullah, who had an amateur explosive device strapped to his body -- indicated the need for policy changes.

"This attack underscores the need for Congress to work with the President on immigration reforms that enhance our national security and public safety," Sanders said. "We must protect our borders, we must ensure that individuals entering our country are not coming to do harm to our people and we must move to a merit-based system."

Critics have pointed to the fact that only a small fraction of green cards are given out each year based on employment as evidence of the need to revamp the US immigration system. Family connections, including spouses, children and extended family, account for a large share of green cards given out each year.

US citizens over age 21 are able to sponsor siblings for visas to the US, and Ullah's type of visa is given to the children under 21 years of age of those siblings. Those families still must meet eligibility requirements to enter the US and are screened and interviewed.

Cotton and Perdue's bill would cut the number of green cards given out per year by roughly half, by sharply cutting the number of family-based categories for visas and by transforming the employment-based green card system from one based on employers' needs to one that heavily favors highly skilled, highly educated, English-speaking immigrants.

That bill lacks wide support in Congress, including among many Republicans, though Trump has pushed for it to be part of a deal to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy he has opted to end.

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Nope.

He owns it.

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Ha. Every crime committed by a non US born - legal or not is because of chain migration and could be prevented. Couldn't find a better definition of xenophobia.

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How about the las vegas shooter? Wasn't his great grandparents immigrants? Enough...

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it would have though...

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Going back in time and aborting him would also work. You don't see republicans really jumping on the bandwagon of time traveling abortionists any time soon though.

Guy got in perfectly legally in on an F43. His parent was a sibling of a USC who did go through the backlog, through the consular or adjustment process, as did he himself. Guy was perfectly clean.

It's a ridiculous argument based upon hindsight. If one out of 65,000 per year F4s, after 20 years went boom that's a pretty good stat, one terrorist among 1,300,000 F4s admitted, a ratio of 0.000077%. I think you have better odds of getting murdered by a cop during a no-knock warrant.


If it was a white guy that went boom while yelling "Heil Ayn Rand", Trump would be very focused on his golf and Big Macs.

But hey, it's easier for Dotard to push for things he doesn't understand. Just wait until his next wife wants to bring her parents in and whoops - you passed the Raise Act, Dotard.

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This^

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Hmmm Maybe that is the plan. "Sorry honey, you mother can 't come and live with us"

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Also, let's not forget no one was seriously hurt, thank god. Hopefully this doesn't influence the immigration debate. It had nothing to do with the actions.

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Welll

I blame crooked Hillary for losing the election.

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or, you know.. maybe something simpler and that's actually possible...

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Like what?

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Well said.

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I don't know man. I blame Doc Emmett Brown and Marty McFly. Had he gone back 10 years earlier (1945), instead of 1955 (Trump was born in 1946), the Doc could have seduced Trump's mom and taken her to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, they would fall in love and get married. Granted, the Doc would cease to exist, which would have prevented the flux capacitor from ever being created, but at least that would have stopped Donal Trump from being born, which means Crooked Hillary would have been president and we would still have our DACAs.

Just sayin.

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Perhaps.. Why is this news? No way related to DACA

please delete

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Trump could fix this if he added extreme vetting

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That's basically how you end up creating an infinite loop. You cease to exist so you couldn't be there to prevent yourself from existing so you do exist to prevent yourself from existing, and so on and so forth.

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us Dreamers,

where we’re going, we dont need roads.

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How do you vet if someone will become radicalized in the future?

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Yeah did you read the bolded part?

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Racially profile.

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While heavy breathing. #MURICA

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it doesn't take a genius to figure out.

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Isn't it part of human nature to profile? Do you think our species would have survived, if Neanderthals punished each other for profiling their tribal rivals? I think not. You cannot escape that which is human nature, at it's core.

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That's why I'm asking you.

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In this case, it would be really dumb. The probability of a crime committed by a green card holding immigrant is orders of magnitude lower than a native born American citizen. It would be prudent to apply resources that would reduce crime overall vs going after a niche low probability event.

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because you can't figure it out?

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So you're ok with racially profiling in other situations as well? Like a police officer pulling over a dark skinned person because they look suspicious?

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Key word: Look suspicious. If they look suspicious than by default you might want to be on alert.

If a dark person was circling around your house suspiciously would you be worried? I think so. I don't think you would say "wellll...can't be profiling. He is black after all, that is not right.."

I am 100 percent sure you'd profile.

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That's an example of someone acting suspicious.

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My solution, as a genius, is irrelevant. I'm trying to get the 'pulse' of the common person, thereby asking you.

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I blamed the whole world. Those dirty politicians and far right/far left shit bastards. No one wants to work. Oh I also blame all the fucktards still fighting over millennium long conflicts.

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True.

Going back to your initial point. Cops are out there dealing with crazies, convicts, druggies, etc. They have a better intuition on what suspicious behavior is. What may seem normal to us, can come off as suspicious to cops. I am not saying it happens intentionally, humans are flawed, it is to be expected. It could be that there was a call about a dark skinned person doing some suspicious behavior and the cop uses his judgment and sees a potential suspect.

To be real, I live near the San Jose main jail. When I go by and see people getting loaded into buses for the Sheriff's Work Alternative Program (basically doing labor as a replacement for jail time), the majority, over 90 percent are black or latinos.

I may get flamed for it, but it's the damn truth and you know it. It's a shame and I look forward to the day that my colored brothers and sisters can use their creativity and talents for betterment of society.

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It was sarcasm, there's no way to predict the future... this isn't minority report. I'm against racial profiling. Besides, I think racial profiling could cause other individual/situations to be overlooked that need attention. Unfortunately I am not Caucasian, so I've had the chance of experiencing the "hype."

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Sorry for misreading your statement. ...sarcasm doesn't always translate over the internet.

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Right, humans are flawed and everyone has different experience, etc. It is also true that racially profiling also happens intentionally by some people, including cops.

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No worries, that's understandable. It may be the consequence of the times. I would think that most people would not find racial profiling as a solution for any problem, but then again, Trump is our president.

+1

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as soon as latinos stop being lumped in with blacks and other minorities you'll see a betterment.
it's no coincidence the majority of all the successful mexicans you see are the ones that didn't grow up in urban ass areas like south chicago, detroit, parts of east L.A, etc...
we're better off without all that useless ghetto culture shit. it's a literal fucking plague on the youth.
hell even compton's an actual livable place now that it's majority mexicans.

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You're right. I stand corrected. I meant to say 'unintentionally'

I am a believer that one needs to have some understanding on when it is appropriate to profile. It's being street smart and vigilant, something that can potentially save your life.

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low-key throwing shade at black people...