I don’t particularly blame anything Donald Trump has done for Safullo Saipov’s terror attack in New York City. Honestly, his policies to date have been fairly ineffectual, and there’s little sign that anything he’s done (or could have done) played a role in this attack (or might have stopped it).
Still, there’s that “on my watch” and “the buck stops here” principle of when bad things happen during a president’s tenure in office. And Donald Trump cannot abide any hint that, as President, the buck might stop with him.
So a visa program that was proposed by Chuck Schumer, co-sponsored by a number of Republicans, passed in 1990 with a bipartisan vote of 231-192 in the House, 89-8 in the Senate, signed into law by GOP President George H. W. Bush, has been around for over twenty years, was found to be no particular risk by the GAO under GOP President George W. Bush in 2007, would have been eliminated by Schumer in the 2013 effort for Immigration Reform that was defeated by House GOP, and was allegedly the basis for Safullo Saipov being admitted into the US in 2011 after demonstrating he met established educational / training requirements … has magically become a way to accuse Schumer for being somehow responsible for Saipov’s terror attack.
Because that’s the way Donald Trump and the right-wing punditry and media roll.
(For the record, I think the “Diversity Visa Lottery” program is a fine thing, because, yes, diversity and representation from around the world actually helps the United States, and the folk admitted under it are not useless dregs of society but people with education and/or vocational training.)
‘A Chuck Schumer beauty’: Trump calls for end to diversity visa program
“We need to get rid of the lottery program as soon as possible,” the president told reporters.
You said it yourself, Donald Trump had nothing to do with this.
These things are caused by terrorists NOT TRUMP.
And some more interesting insight into the Diversity Visa program and why it was developed. A lot of the initial beneficiaries were … Irish.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/diversity-visa-program/544646/?utm_source=atlgp
+viraj shah Certainly they are caused by terrorists, and, as I said, there's nothing Trump could have done, presumably, to keep this particular event from occurring.
By the same token, he's still the President. And, the buck still stops at his desk.
Yes i totally agree with you. but trump cant somehow "predict" when somebody is going to shoot up a school because they have issues. There are helplines available for people with such problems and it is not Trumps job to Find and stop Them.
Trumps job is to pass LEGISLATIONs to prevent this from happening in the future. But if he is met with opposition no matter what decisions he makes how do you expect him to do his job?
Let me give you a taste of what a riot by TRUMP PROTESTERS looks like. I can assure you it is very civil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2H_yT9A0U
+viraj shah As President, Trump's job is not to "pass LEGISLATIONs," though he can act as a united and inspirational leader to get legislation passed by Congress.
Instead, he seems more intent on finding political opponents to blame.
Chuck Schumer should be hanged for treason
+Heath Register What an asinine comment, given what's noted above.
But, given your profile full of anti-Semitism, George Soros conspiracy theories, and warnings about false flag operations, I don't think there's any value in discussing it further. Aloha.
Haven't seen a profile that nasty in a good while