[mikeash]

Banning existing visa holders isn't "playing hardball," it's just downright evil.

A case might be made for shutting down new refugees from those countries, or even new non-refugee visas. But there's no sane case to be made for keeping out people with green cards.

[pdx]

How about this? 'U.S. Visa Process Missed San Bernardino Wife’s Online Zealotry' [1]

She had a visa, but perhaps she should have been further vetted, yes?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/san-bernardino-attacks...

[mikeash]

Too bad she wouldn't have been affected by this ban in the first place.

Edit: that dodges the main point. A better response would be, the other attacker was a US citizen, does that then make a good argument for banning US citizens from entry?

[pdx]

Agreed. Obviously it needs to be expanded. As is often mentioned, Saudi Arabia should be included because of 9/11.

This woman was from Pakistan which suffers terrible internal terrorism problems. While the government of Pakistan is great, there is obviously a terrorism problem in that country. It seems like perhaps that would be grounds to make Pakistan another possible 'country of concern'.

[mikeash]

The government is great? Are you talking about the same Pakistan that sheltered Osama bin Laden for a decade and regularly sends terrorists into India?

[legostormtroopr]

Yes, the same Pakistan that after harboring another terrorist for 8 years, quickly arrested him to prevent getting put on that same "countries of concern" list.

The migration halt inconvenienced 100 or so people, but it has had a much bigger (almost positive) impact in ways people are ignoring so they can call Trump Hitler.

He isn't exterminating people, he just said "look this area of the world is in crisis, we don't want that here so stop coming" and this is making everyone else pull up and start doing stuff.

That seems like its doing some good, and isn't just "outright evil" as you called it.

[mikeash]

Tens of thousands of people had their visas revoked. The only thing that mitigated it was the courts putting a stop to it quickly. Saying it only inconvenienced a hundred people is not only wrong, it wouldn't even be a defense of the order if it was right.

[yongjik]

Great, now we're exhorting US government to snoop on online comments.