Quote:So my personal recap of this thread...

 

Trump supporters love him and agree with his "total shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.", but they can't point to a realistic way of "how" to do that.  I posed a couple of questions that Trump supporters fail to answer, and I would venture to say that Trump himself couldn't answer them.  Yet, this is the candidate that they support?

 

That's not much different than the college aged students supporting Bernie Sanders because he promises "free education" and forgiving their student loans.

 

People these days support a candidate based on how much "free stuff" that they promise or "how they will change" our current situation.

 

How should terrorism realistically be approached?

How should the economy realistically be managed?

How should the immigration issue realistically be fixed?

 

Those are just a few questions that should be answered by the current candidates.

Quote:With all due respect, your proposed scenario presents its own absurdity.  

 

Trump said "We should ban the influx of Muslims into the country until we can figure out who these people are."

 

Responding that we can't even do that because we REALLY don't know who these people are doesn't actually poke holes in Trump's assertion, its an indictment of the immigration and customs system as a whole.  

 

Your basic premise, while provocative, doesn't take into account or illustrate the basic tenant of the TRUMPIAN position.  We should grant the privilege of entering this country on an affirmative basis.  By that it means that if we cannot concretely establish who a person is and certify that they have not been in contact with radical elements then they should not be allowed into the country.  

 

The intelligence required to keep this country safe, and the steps that Trump is advocating (not the ban, the process by which applicants should be vetted,) go a lot further than racial profiling.  

 

If someone wants to enter this country then we should be able to completely and affirmatively verify who they are.  We should also have real time intel about developing terror plots and suspected terror operatives to create a database that we can vet people against.  

 

Will there ever be a perfect system?  of course not.  

 

But in California we had a pakistany woman granted a k-1 Visa who had known terror affiliations in her own country and espoused radical views.  THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE!