So that is just a parenthetical in Hayward's article for me because I
know personally PolitiFact is a political joke if what they were doing
was not so serious in harming the American people by misrepresenting
the true facts of what is going on. I hope that at some point being
still remaining an entrepreneurial country for a little longer--at
least we have got nearly 4 years to go that we can be assured of as an
entrepreneurial country--at least in that time perhaps we will have an
entrepreneurial group that will rise up and start scoring PolitiFact to
show just how unfair they are, and, on occasion, when they are actually
fair, show that as well so the American public can actually score the
illegitimate scorers. But going back to this article, it says: ``As for Barack Obama, he
did indeed ban immigration from Iraq, for much longer than Trump's
order bans it from the seven listed nations, and none of the people
melting down today uttered a peep of protest. Richard Grenell summed it
up perfectly in a Tweet: `Obama took 6 months to review screening for 1
country. Trump will take 3 months for 7 countries. . . . ' ''
This article goes on: ``5. Trump's refugee caps are comparable to
Obama's pre-2016 practices: David French, who was touted as a spoiler
candidate to keep Donald Trump out of the White House during the
presidential campaign--in other words, not a big Trump fan--wrote a
lengthy and clear-headed analysis of the Executive Order for National
Review. He noted that after the moratorium ends in 120 days''--and that
is one section. It ends in 120 days, the other section is 90 days,
another part says they will have 30 days to produce a report. But it goes on to say: ``Trump caps refugee admissions at 50,000 per
year . . . which is roughly the same as President Obama's admissions in
2011 and 2012, and not far below the 70,000 per year cap in place from
2013 to 2015.
``Obama had fairly low caps on refugees during the worst years of the
Syrian civil war. He didn't throw open the doors to mass refugee
admissions until his final year in office. Depending on how Trump's
review of Syrian refugee policy turns out, he's doing little more than
returning admissions to normal levels after a four-month pause for
security reviews.
``6. The Executive Order is legal: Those invoking the Constitution to
attack Trump's order are simply embarrassing themselves. The President
has clear statutory authority to take these actions.
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