One, therefore all
Trump vowed on Thanksgiving to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations in a blistering late-night, anti-immigrant screed posted to social media.
The extended rant came in the wake of the Wednesday shooting of two National Guard members who were deployed to patrol Washington, D.C., under Trump’s orders, one of whom died shortly before the president spoke to U.S. troops by video on Thursday evening.
A 29-year-old Afghan national who worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War is facing charges for the shooting. The suspect emigrated as part of a program to resettle those who has helped American troops after U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
One Afghan national faces charges for a shooting. One. Not a hundred, not fifty, not ten, but one. Does it make sense to ban all Afghan nationals as a result? It seems unlikely, seeing as how Trump doesn’t rush to deport, say, all Americans, even though there have been mass shootings carried out by Americans in recent years.
