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It's amazing to see policy making without any planning whatsoever.

• h_r 10y ago
  The fact that he said something about this topic during the campaign probably does count as planning on his eyes. Consequences can be dealt with on the fly.
• hedora 10y ago
  This seems well planned to me. We were told it was coming (not in this exact form) throughout the campaign. Trump has also promised to arrest millions of immigrants in the next four years. He has to start small. CBP already operates in the constitution free "border zone". It's a perfect way to normalize larger scale unlawful detentions in the public eye and set legal precedents. Put another way, Oakland and San Francisco airports are almost certainly illeglly detaining innocent people that are in the country legally right now. If the feds started by pulling people with visas and green cards from desks in Silicon Valley or SF there would be riots in the streets. I am talking about two groups of people within 50 miles of each other, which (until the executive order) had the same legal status. This is not OK, and it is naive to think it is poorly planned. (I hope you're right though, and trump tweets an apology/release order this weekend.)