America, what you have done? Good luck with this petition! Let's fight for an open world.
It's not America that did this it's a minority of America. The rest of us feel like prisoners in our own country when faced with this kind of complete and utter insanity.
Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. I am from Turkey, and i will be nervous every passing day from yesterday on, watching news to see if Turkey is added to the list. I am still years away from naturalization, and it saddens me to think about relocating, after having left where i was born for a better and productive life. Nobody chooses their birthplace, but these are the people that decided to make a change, and in a way that historically benefit…
You're safe. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-trump-immigration-ba... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Towers_Istanbul
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not America that did this it's a minority of America. The rest of us feel like prisoners in our own country when faced with this kind of complete and utter insanity.
How is it a minority when 48% of voters elected him a few months ago?
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#34A friendly reminder from over the pond (that is Europe). https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 You need to speak up now, or one does not know where this will end.
> "First they came for the Socialists..." Yep, and we are already all the way up to "arresting 6 journalists covering public protests against the unpopular ruler"
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#35A friendly reminder from over the pond (that is Europe). https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 You need to speak up now, or one does not know where this will end.
> "First they came for the Socialists..." Yep, and we are already all the way up to "arresting 6 journalists covering public protests against the unpopular ruler"
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#36America, what you have done? Good luck with this petition! Let's fight for an open world.
It's not America that did this it's a minority of America. The rest of us feel like prisoners in our own country when faced with this kind of complete and utter insanity.
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#37Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#38What's scary is the new immigration ban affects legal, permanent residents. US legal, permanent residents that have firmly rooted their lives in the US, only to be told they can't come home.
This. I am from Turkey, and i will be nervous every passing day from yesterday on, watching news to see if Turkey is added to the list. I am still years away from naturalization, and it saddens me to think about relocating, after having left where i was born for a better and productive life. Nobody chooses their birthplace, but these are the people that decided to make a change, and in a way that historically benefit…
Though one could argue 3 generations later that act of immigration is not benefitting the US.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not America that did this it's a minority of America. The rest of us feel like prisoners in our own country when faced with this kind of complete and utter insanity.
It's not a minority, 46.1% voted for Trump according to CNN
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#40Please also remember to sign the petition, in addition to discussing it in the comments! 100k signatures is a lot, but not for HackerNews ;)
Question: Can people outside the US sign the petition as well, or does it have more validity if only US residents sign it? I want to sign it, but don't want it to be used against the petition later if someone in the administration says it is a 'fake petition' because x% of outside the US jurisdiction signed it.