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My father successfully brought over two of our relatives from Iran during the Obama presidency (thanks Obama). They were a doctor and a professional soccer play
by HeavenBanned 10y ago
My father successfully brought over two of our relatives from Iran during the Obama presidency (thanks Obama). They were a doctor and a professional soccer player. However, the other application for his older sister and my mother's brother has been processing for nearly 20 years. She's nearing her 70s. And my mother's brother has all but lost hope.
Looks like it's not going to ever happen under Mr. Trump.
Oh well. I wouldn't say it's as urgent as having PhD-level brains here...but it's too bad. We're doing the process right. We're doing it legally. We're following all the proper procedure and making sure that nothing is overlooked or done to cheat the process.
My father (who voted for Trump) is in complete denial: he thinks "The people around Trump told him to do that."
Very sad.
- jasonmp85 10y agoThat penultimate paragraph. Jesus Christ.
- spiderfarmer 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
- moomin 10y agoI'm reminded of something I read by people who were in the cultural revolution. They always convinced themselves that Mao had bad advisers and they'd get purged soon. Took decades to twig that the problem was Mao himself.
- coredog64 10y agoIt isn't just Mao. "If only Stalin knew" was a popular refrain.
- exit 10y agowhat motivated your father to vote for trump?
- Qwertious 10y agoWith your father's thoughts: Does it matter? Policy is policy, who cares whether it's specifically Trump or just his aides, as long as your Irani relatives are being deported for bullshit reasons?
- scott_s 10y agoBecause they may continue to support that person, mistakenly thinking that the policies they disagree with are from people other than that person.
- ascagnel_ 10y agoOne of the strangest moves during the election was that Trump stopped by Edison, NJ, to deliver a stump speech. Edison has a very heavy immigrant population, particularly from from south-east Asia. Which makes no sense, since the organization he was stumping for (an explicitly Hindu organization) would likely be very adversely affected by his immigration changes. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/us/politics/trump-modi-indian-americans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/us/politics/trump-modi-in...