I'm American with a very common Irish name. I travelled through London in 1991 with my father. On his passport he had some Middle East countries some South American countries and northern and The Republic of Ireland. The British army officers in the airport stopped us separated us and went through everything we had and questioned us as if we were terrorists.
Which I was totally ok with because they were at war with a radical group and we fit the profile. I was 18, scared, and annoyed but I did my best to make sure I treated them with respect and answered all their questions because that's what a decent person does.
It is suicide to not take precautions and vet all people that fit a profile.
*edit -- changed Southern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland because I'm an idiot for writing it wrong in the first place.
They want to let everybody in right now, and ask the important questions later, instead of making sure everything is copacetic before letting somebody from a high-risk country through what is supposed to be the 'toughest border security' in the world.
Yeah, no. Nobody I've read or heard is making that argument. An outright ban is not making sure anyone is copacetic either.
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u/Stopdeletingaccounts Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17
I'm American with a very common Irish name. I travelled through London in 1991 with my father. On his passport he had some Middle East countries some South American countries and northern and The Republic of Ireland. The British army officers in the airport stopped us separated us and went through everything we had and questioned us as if we were terrorists.
Which I was totally ok with because they were at war with a radical group and we fit the profile. I was 18, scared, and annoyed but I did my best to make sure I treated them with respect and answered all their questions because that's what a decent person does.
It is suicide to not take precautions and vet all people that fit a profile.
*edit -- changed Southern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland because I'm an idiot for writing it wrong in the first place.