The New Colossus

By Ryan Carvano

    I find it very interesting the amount of outcry by our liberal peers over the "trumpban"/"muslimban" when this is not trump's idea nor is it a ban. Over the past few days we've all heard pestering outcries for social justice by our friendly neighborhood leftists. We've heard the rhetoric being thrown by them and it seems they lack the burden of proof and their very arguments are uprooted by hypocritical nature, and double standard championed by the left. I'm here to show dispute the nonsense, garner the truth, and point out hypocrisy.
So we've heard many claims that this is a Muslim ban, that Only Muslims are barred from entering the country because the prohibition only involves Muslim majority countries. However, many of these complaints are oblivious to the actual people who have been turned down which included christians. The order banned all immigration not just Muslims, and has already redirected a Christian family back from whence they came. In order to bypass the order, you have to be a religious minority and be able to make a valid claim of religious persecution. Now liberals may point out that this is the ban, that muslims can't claim persecution! See they got us they got us!! No, I'm sorry you didn't... there are Muslim minorities in Muslim countries. What liberals offensively don't recognize is that there are two major groups of muslims that contain many subgroups. If we look at a Shia majority in Iran, Sunni Muslims can leave and make the claim of religious persecution from the reactionary government. Not to mention that the Obama backed government in Iraq continued to hold genocidal tendencies towards the Kurds which follow a more secular and progressive form of Islam. So, in reality the only people really prohibited entry are those whose values seek to oppress others. Not to mention this is in fact temporary.
     The fact of the matter is that the countries on this list do not even fall in the top ten categories for Muslim population, with the exception being Iran. So why is it that muslims from different countries can come in, oh yeah because it's not a Muslim ban. Some of my rather progressive friends have pointed out that trump didn't prohibit countries he does business in. Well, you may have a point if it wasn't  for the reality that the Obama administration had used this same list to warn U.S citizens and that Reince Priebus, the day after the ban, said we are open to adding more countries to the prohibition including Saudi Arabia whom has relations with Trump's business. I believe I established well enough that this isn't targeting Muslims, but some may still ask whom is it targeting we haven't had a terrorist attack from these countries. Unfortunately that is not true, the OSU' attacker was from Somalia, at least one Paris attacker was funneled in through the Syrian Refugee portal, the Boston Bombers were refugees, the father of the nightclub shooter was an immigrant from Afghanistan and an avid supporter for the ousted Taliban, that father radicalized his son who proclaimed allegiance to ISIS as the "Islamic Soldier", and "Soldier of God". My point is we have valid reason to expand vetting, Orlando. Wouldn't have happened if the immigration looked at Omar Mateen's dad's Facebook posts. Unfortunately liberals prefer to use infallible statistics like you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning or eaten by a shark than getting killed by a terrorists; I get that 100% but I still wouldn't let the shark swim in my bathtub or walk around with a metal pole during a lightning storm just to prove a point. 
     Now i know this is all a lot to take in but we must continue to point out the hypocrisy on the left. In 2015, Senator Chuck Schumer was recorded saying that he would support the prohibition of southwest Asian immigration to the United States, however when Trump wants to do it it's not ok and he has to fake cry about it. Chuck Schumer didn't even cry on 9/11 so you really do see that his loyalists are with his radical partisan rather than with the American people. In Obama's second term he did the same thing to Iraq. While composing the list of countries trump is using, Obama personally ordered a prohibition on Iraqi immigration and refugees. Where was the outcry when he did this? What's amazing is that a large portion of Muslim countries have a an on Jewish immigration because they don't recognize the right to exist of any Jew or any Jewish state. Where was the outcry? 
     I'll leave you with this, maybe we need to grow up. We need to defend our borders and defend our beliefs and ideals from those who wish to take advantage of it. If we are to be a bastion of democracy, a shining city on a hill we must make sure that future immigrants continue to be the electricians who keep the city lit for thousands of years. I believe this is a country of refugees, immigrants and exiled democratic legionaries. I believe in the new colossus. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” However I also believe that the only way we can defend this principle is by re asserting it as a privilege and not a right. We will accept all those who love, all those who dream and all those of benevolent spheres. There are people who will take advantage of our good nature and fraternity, people who want to destroy our way of life, and I believe the only answer to this problem is three simple words. Trust, but Verify.