Politics
MEMBERS
8 Members

Teaching Jobs on Teachers.Net

Start a new discussion...
We keep hearing how Trump's travel ban is meant to keep us all safe and prevent events like the Paris, Brussels, Nice, and Istanbul attacks, but with the exception of two of the 9 Paris attacker (who were Iraqi) these were not perpetrated by people from the 7 countries included in the travel ban. Some had trained in Syria, but since they held French, Belgian, Russian or other citizenship the ban wouldn't apply anyway.

The majority of the Brussels attackers were Belgian men of Moroccan descent. The attacker in Nice was Tunisian. Most of the Paris attackers were French and Belgian. The Istanbul airport attackers were Russian The Istanbul nightclub attacker was Uzbeki The Boston Bombers were Americans whose family came from Kyrgyzstan.

Where are Belgium, France, Morocco, Russia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia on the list?
Cha Cha On 2/06/17, Lulu wrote: > We keep hearing how Trump's travel ban is meant to keep us all > safe and prevent events like the Paris, Brussels, Nice, and > Istanbul attacks, but with the exception of two of the 9 Paris > attacker (who were Iraqi) these were not perpetrated by people > from the 7 countries included in the travel ban. Som...See More
Feb 6, 2017
T.E.C. - Iowa I am not a fan of Pres. Trumps Muslim ban, yet, there is something really dumb about the uproar.

They say fear is the strongest motivator. After 9/11, Americans were so afraid they found nothing wrong with the following from "Five Ways Bush's Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11." This is not the complete list....See More
Feb 7, 2017


Teacher Chatboards

States

Subject Areas

Language Arts

Foreign Language