04-22-2020, 12:51 PM
(04-21-2020, 07:31 AM)6andcounting Wrote: On Constitutional grounds, Trump has the power under Title 42 of U.S. Code to halt all immigration. The 2018 upholding of his 2018 ban also gives him precedent. I suspect there will be no shortage of experts that will be paraded out to justify and support his decision. And I'm sure his slide show of CDC numbers and models shows how we need a total immigrant ban to keep us safe is already ready to roll for today.
I'm not an expert on any of these people, fields or things Trump will show to me as evidence, but I'm already questioning why I should trust or believe any of it. What good are expert recommendations if the experts are paid by or receive funding from the government they are backing? And when the DNC trots experts out to counter Trump, how do I trust their evidence is 100% correct and not fitted to be an attack on Trump?
The average person can't sift through the bias and issues in these highly specified fields that we don't study ourselves.
I don't really get the whole immigration shutdown. The virus is already here, in just about every place it's going get. It seems like a day late and a dollar short to me.
I have no doubt that he has the authority to do so. I just don't see any real point. Well, I guess there's one. He gets to smash some libs and snowflakes, so there's that. Things are looking a bit grim for hm at the moment, so I suppose from a strategic standpoint, throwing some chum to the usual Trump crowd can only help him feel better when he gets to have rallies again.
I suppose my main question about it would be: if the virus is no big deal, and we all need to stop being candy-asses and re-open the country ASAP, then why the urgency to take an action like this with respect to the virus?