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Several top Senate Republicans raised concerns Sunday that President Trumps order to halt the admission of refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries had not been properly vetted and could harm the relationship between the United States and key allies.
The senators generally said they support the decision to increase standards for vetting refugees and other people traveling to the United States, but their remarks added to the growing chorus of criticism of Trumps order.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cautioned that the United States does not have a religious test for entry into the country, though he stopped short of rejecting the order in its entirety. McConnell said that Muslims, both in the United States and abroad, are key allies in the fight against terrorism and urged caution in regard to Trumps plan to implement extreme vetting for refugees from countries where a majority of the citizens are Muslim.
I dont want to criticize them for improving vetting, McConnell said on ABCs This Week. I think we need to be careful. We dont have religious tests in this country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-we-dont-have-religious-tests-in-this-country/2017/01/29/03215604-e630-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na&utm_term=.43addbaa9ad7#comments
In other words Turtleman doesn't want to upset the Trumpenfuhrer
volstork
(5,402 posts)asshole. No thanks to you...
It took him this long to come to that conclusion? What a complete stooge!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)Cost you much besides your soul?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)I was making an unsupported assumption.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Ya know.
volstork
(5,402 posts)someone married that dude.
bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)because: "they were chopping off the heads of everybody, but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-christian-refugees/
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)While I realize that this may be, in fact, more unconstitutional than anything I accused Obama of, I don't have the testicular fortitude to stand up to my rabid racsist base. Therefore, I'm just going to vocally walk the knifes edge. That way, if he stays in power I can say I was on his side. If we have to remove him, I can say I was against him. Plus, you know, he appointed my wife to a sweet position so I'm just going to retreat into my shell and ignore my constitutional duties as a U.S. Senator. Party before country!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Guy is so full of shit it drools from his mouth. He is in this Cabal up to his eyeballs. It's his Party and he is now going to have to like it.
Never have a Religious test,well what just happened dummy,if that wasn't a religious test,what is. Got to keep them folk down in the Hallers a voten for them Republicans.