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Take his recent comments on Muslim immigration for example. The political optics of the issue itself are great, but Rand doesn't get the Trump like boost from his political "wins" because of the mealy-mouthed way he words everything:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ror-restrict-immigration-from-muslim-nations/ (Note that Breibart actually helps Rand out by titling the article with the words Rand should have spoken but never actually did)
I’m very concerned about immigration to this country from countries that have hotbeds of jihadism and hotbeds of this Islamism. There was a program in place that Bush had put in place—it stood for entry-exit program from about 25 different countries with a lot of Islamic radicals, frankly. I think there does need to be heightened scrutiny. Nobody has a right to come to America, so this isn’t something that we can say ‘oh their rights are being violated.’ It’s a privilege to come to America and we need to thoroughly screen those who are coming.
In my hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, we had two Iraqi refugees who were let into our country who were plotting to buy stinger missiles a few years ago, but they got arrested and put in jail. But I think we’re doing the wrong thing by just having this open door policy to bring in people without significant scrutiny. I’m for increasing scrutiny on people who come on student visas from the 25 countries that have significant jihadism. Also, any kind of permanent visas or green cards, we need to be very careful. I don’t think we’re being careful enough with who we let in.
I’m going to have our subcommittee and maybe committee in Homeland Security look into whether or not we could reinstitute this NSEERS [National Security Entry Exit Registration System] program—it was entry-exit program that was heightened scrutiny for 25 predominantly Muslim countries that have significant jihadist movements and anti-American sentiment in their country.
I know that is probably just the way Rand talks, but he's got to fix it. He couches everything in these passive, conditional terms. People don't want to hear what you "think" or that you'll "look in to" things. People hear that and they think that either you aren't being serious, or you yourself simply don't understand the seriousness of the problem and it turns what should have been a political positive in to a negative. Trump by contrast, would have brought up the fact that Muslim immigration to America has doubled since 9/11, noted that that is insane, and called the architects of that policy idiots.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ror-restrict-immigration-from-muslim-nations/ (Note that Breibart actually helps Rand out by titling the article with the words Rand should have spoken but never actually did)
I’m very concerned about immigration to this country from countries that have hotbeds of jihadism and hotbeds of this Islamism. There was a program in place that Bush had put in place—it stood for entry-exit program from about 25 different countries with a lot of Islamic radicals, frankly. I think there does need to be heightened scrutiny. Nobody has a right to come to America, so this isn’t something that we can say ‘oh their rights are being violated.’ It’s a privilege to come to America and we need to thoroughly screen those who are coming.
In my hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, we had two Iraqi refugees who were let into our country who were plotting to buy stinger missiles a few years ago, but they got arrested and put in jail. But I think we’re doing the wrong thing by just having this open door policy to bring in people without significant scrutiny. I’m for increasing scrutiny on people who come on student visas from the 25 countries that have significant jihadism. Also, any kind of permanent visas or green cards, we need to be very careful. I don’t think we’re being careful enough with who we let in.
I’m going to have our subcommittee and maybe committee in Homeland Security look into whether or not we could reinstitute this NSEERS [National Security Entry Exit Registration System] program—it was entry-exit program that was heightened scrutiny for 25 predominantly Muslim countries that have significant jihadist movements and anti-American sentiment in their country.
I know that is probably just the way Rand talks, but he's got to fix it. He couches everything in these passive, conditional terms. People don't want to hear what you "think" or that you'll "look in to" things. People hear that and they think that either you aren't being serious, or you yourself simply don't understand the seriousness of the problem and it turns what should have been a political positive in to a negative. Trump by contrast, would have brought up the fact that Muslim immigration to America has doubled since 9/11, noted that that is insane, and called the architects of that policy idiots.
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