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Old 02-01-2017, 11:32 PM   #8 (permalink)
Mermaid
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Originally Posted by Los View Post
Past presidents (including Obama, and I think Bill Clinton) have issued similar travel bans from countries with high terrorist activity. That's where Trump got the list of countries from. I don't remember seeing any protests then.

If they did it right, it would have gone mostly unnoticed like previous travel bans.
There was no previous travel ban. People from countries on the list just had to go through a stricter vetting process before getting a visa. It also applied to people who were not from the listed countries but had traveled to one within the last 5 years.
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