Same Democrats Who Bash Trump For Immigration Order Also Supported Tougher Immigration Under Obama

Same Democrats Who Bash Trump For Immigration Order Also Supported Tougher Immigration Under Obama

Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty from Connecticut launched a tweetstorm Monday afternoon against President Donald Trump’s travel ban, but quickly backtracked after followers confronted her on her visa-related voting history.

Esty co-sponsored H.B. 158 on Dec. 3 2015, a bi-partisan bill that enabled the executive branch led by the the Department of Homeland Security to severely limit or curtail visas from countries like Iran and Iraq.

Trump’s list of seven countries came primarily from the text of H.B. 158, but the executive order allows Trump to place a travel ban from any resident of those countries, excluding those with current green cards or legal residents of the United States.


— Elizabeth Esty (@RepEsty) January 29, 2017

Esty’s followers on Twitter were quick to remind the congresswoman about her voting history, going so far as to call her a “liar.”

>REALLY @RepEsty? Because YOU co-sponsored it for Obama but it’s evil for @POTUS @realDonaldTrump. You’re a liar. t.co/AzsGNTrIyv t.co/MAian72be3

— Katica (@GOPPollAnalyst) January 30, 2017

Esty’s press office told The Daily Caller News Foundation the congresswoman didn’t mean to assert that she didn’t co-sponsor the bill, but rather the bill didn’t do the same thing as Trump’s executive order. The office added that Trump’s order is unique because it constitutes a blanket ban, while the bill that she co-sponsored only sought to reduce the number of visas issued from the same seven countries.

Esty’s co-sponsored Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 prevented members of 38 countries to enter the U.S. for less than 90 days. The law prevented anyone from obtaining a visa into the country if they had visited any of the countries on the list within the last five years.

The American Civil Liberties Union opposed the measure before it was signed into law.

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My uncle actually can't get Visa now and he's Dutch and atheist. It's pretty crazy.

must be the atheism part, neither Schumer nor Pence would approve of it

I just find it ironic how many of the people who strongly oppose Trump's Immigration EO, actually were supporting a bill back in 2015 to help curb immigration.

Hypocrisy: politics as usual.

People arent protesting because they disagree with the substance, they are protesting because they disagree with the enactor

Trump could cure world hunger and he would be called literally Hitler.

Trump could bring world peace and he would be called a dictator.

Trump could defeat ISIS and he would be called genocidal

It was wrong then and it's wrong now

also this isn't a democrat board

Obama: pays billions of tax dollars to auto manufacturers and gets lauded as a hero who saved american industry

Trump: lessens regulations on manufacturers making it easier for them to produce, without having to pay them taxpayer dollars and gets ridiculed as "in bed with big business"

Why are immigration laws wrong? Keep in mind that the majority of Americans support limiting immigration and the outrage you see in the media is entirely manufactured by those in power who oppose Trump.

Thousands of Americans on all sides of the political spectrum organized quickly to show up at airports over the weekend and protest a capricious, counterproductive ban

They're not in theory, but in practice, when selectively applied to a subset of people and then marketed as "national security"–they're wrong

I didn't say it was unanimous but thousands of protesters are a drop in the bucket compared to the entire population of America, the majority or near majority of which support the ban according to polls.

The entire point of vetting is to selectively let some people in and keep others out. I still don't see what's so evil about that and putting national security in scare quotes like it's some made up thing is just silly.

Is it? Knowing how often it's used to trample civil liberties by the state?

We aren't talking about surveillance here. Keeping foreign nationals who don't share American values or are terrorists out is a totally non controversial national security goal and doesn't trample on anyone's civil liberties.

Taxi drivers didn't strike and thousands of people didn't flood into airports because the media. All lot of socialist and anarchist groups were there. The democrats and deep state are afraid of any form of political expression that isn't individual and polite.

Because the majority support something doesn't make it right. Many social democrats justified their vote for WW1 because they clsimed thr masses supported it. More terrorist attacks here are committed by autistic Holla Forums retards than muslims.


Fuck off

color me surprised

And how are we going to determine that they don't?

If they aren't European or East Asian then they are not allowed. Sadly I don't think Trump has the balls to make the ban that broad.

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Thanks for confirming you're just using the state and–sorry for the scare quotes–"national security" to keep out scary brown people.

Fuck off. This isn't about race relations, this is about the worker. Eat my shit, eat everyone's shit, like it and enjoy it.

I'm not using anything dumbass. I'm just one powerless individual with an opinion but thanks for confirming you don't know who your real enemy is

Let me guess: it's Muslims, right?

No, it's capital and the people who control it. You know, the ones who actually have power over the state. I thought you knew this but apparently this is just a board for liberals who think borders are fascism now.

Cool. Now tell me how banning the travel of millions of people accomplishes that

Why bound your existence needlessly to something so nebulous and abstract?

Because without national values we are lost. You have to bind your existence to something otherwise you are no better than a wild animal.

Hello pol

It was obvious he was a Holla Forums user, who else would unironically say "American values" in earnest.

tell us what American "national values" are, please. I'm curious now

You can say "values are a spook lmao" all you want, it's not going to stop Pakistanis honour-killing their slutty daughters or marrying them off to their brothers

Why are all these Trump supporters pointing out that he's just keeping with Obama's policies?

That doesn't mean you aren't without spooks.

Plus that's analogous to that "don't you know kids there are starving in Africa" bullshit that every feeble-minded mother carts out to their children.

Being savage isn't unique to Americans such as yourself, we are very well aware.

Keep crying about your spooks

Because it's fact. Fact that the media is trying to sweep under the rug.

because they think MUH LIBRAL HYPOCRISY is a legit argument

Liberals always cry about Republican hypocrisy and unlike Republicans they are actually somewhat troubled when it's pointed out that they are being hypocrites themselves

Yeah but if Trump is so great why is he just doing what obama was

Because it's the right thing to do

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because they don't care about even appearing consistent, just whatever it takes to lend Daddy some legitimacy

kek trump will do none of those things, you're delusional

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underrated

Obama talked alot but did nearly nothing to uphold his promises. Trump is actually doing it.

Your uncle cannot get a visa because he is from an Islamic country…

ISHYGDDT