FAITH/WORLD
Friday, June 30, 2017
LIMEY PASTOR
D
ear Mr. President,
ability to care for their families and
I didn’t think that I would
themselves is of utmost significance
write to you again so soon,
to them. You care about this and
but I thought that it might help
aren’t going to allow millions to
a situation developing. I noticed
lose their health care for grubby
today’s headlines about your tweets.
politicians in suits.
My own feeling is that, if sleep is
That is why the recent froth and
difficult, it is better to be wakeful
churn of debate on health care is
and pray for others than to tweet
so difficult. My own background
Colin
and cast stones. The White House
is of a fellow from limeyland,
Brown
is indeed a glass house. I think
where, in the 1940s we created a
Faith
de-tweeting is on the cards, unless
countrywide health service where
some joyful, positive melodies of
we got rid of the gatekeepers
thought can be produced. I think you can,
(the insurance companies) and paid the
as you have an inner comedian that is quite doctors, nurses, and workers in health
enchanting. You appearances on television
care directly. At least 50 percent of the
comedy shows are hilarious.
money goes to the insurance companies
I previously wrote to you when you
who are the gatekeepers in these situations.
were just the president elect and you
In limeyland we didn’t get rid of private
were in a whirl of activity. I remember
health care companies but we stopped
reminding you that you are a creation of
giving most of the money to them. This is
God’s providence that his destiny for you is sufficient to take care of the bills. This has
going to astonish everyone.
worked now for 70 years.
I still firmly believe that God has called
You are the artist of deal making, so
you to a very high purpose, and that the
please dear sir make a deal where that can
Lord likes to take some fairly rugged folk
happen. It will solve the issue quickly.
and make out of them shining examples to
Even make a deal with Canada to use their
mankind is beyond doubt. Look at Moses,
systems if necessary. You don’t need to
who murdered, and King David who lusted pay billionaires more money to get the
and committed adultery. All of us who call
same technological infrastructure. It exists
themselves Christians, and I know you do,
already just up the road.
have some pretty checkered pasts. King
With my recent heart operation I know
Henry VIII — the English King who was
the huge amount of effort that went into
the driver of the English reformation —
rescuing my sorry self, and the cost of the
was driven by unseemly lusts for multiple
effort was staggering. I also know that it
wives, without which we would still be a
would be quite possible, quite soon, to have
European afterthought.
such surgery be beyond my reach. I can
I said in my letter that you had called
honestly say that America, with its doctors
out to the poor and that you had been
and nurses, conspired to save this limey’s
elected by the poor. This is true. I know
life, who, in thanks, rededicates his efforts
you are moved by human suffering.
to sharing the good news of Jesus Christ
You spoke to the senators and
who escorts us to Paradise.
congressmen about how what they had
I wish all Americans to have the
crafted with health care needed to have a
opportunity of sharing my blessing.
heart.
Tweet joyfully, dear President Trump.
■
This is true, painfully so, as you and
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By MATTHEW LEE
and ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A
scaled-back
version
of
President Donald Trump’s
travel ban took effect
Thursday evening, stripped
of provisions that brought
protests and chaos at airports
worldwide in January yet
still likely to generate a new
round of court fights.
The new rules, the
product of months of legal
wrangling, aren’t so much an
outright ban as a tightening
of already-tough visa policies
affecting citizens from six
Muslim-majority countries.
Refugees are covered, too.
Administration officials
promised that implementa-
tion this time, which started
at 8 p.m. EDT, would be
orderly. Customs and Border
Protection spokesman Dan
Hetlage said his agency
expected “business as usual
at our ports of entry,” with all
valid visa holders still being
able to travel.
Still, immigration and
refugee advocates are vowing
challenge the new require-
ments and the administration
has struggled to explain how
they will make the United
States safer.
Under the temporary
rules, citizens of Syria,
Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran
and Yemen who already
have visas will be allowed
into the United States. But
people from those countries
who want new visas will now
have to prove a close family
relationship or an existing
relationship with an entity
like a school or business in
the U.S.
It’s unclear how signifi-
cantly the new rules will
affect travel. In most of the
countries singled out, few
people have the means for
leisure travel. Those that do
already face intensive screen-
ings before being issued
visas.
Nevertheless,
human
rights groups on Thursday
girded for new legal battles.
The American Civil Liberties
Union, one of the groups
challenging the ban, called
the new criteria “extremely
restrictive,” ‘’arbitrary” in
their exclusions and designed
to “disparage and condemn
Muslims.”
The state of Hawaii filed an
emergency motion Thursday
asking a federal judge to
clarify that the administra-
tion cannot enforce the ban
against fiancés or relatives —
such as grandparents, aunts
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a “bona fide relationship”
with a U.S. person or entity.
The court offered only broad
guidelines.
In
guidance
issued
late Wednesday, the State
Department said the personal
relationships would include a
parent, spouse, son, daughter,
son-in-law, daughter-in-law
or sibling already in the
United States. It does not
include other relationships
such as grandparents, grand-
children, aunts and uncles.
Business or professional
links must be “formal, docu-
mented and formed in the
ordinary course rather than
for the purpose of evading”
the ban. Journalists, students,
workers or lecturers who
have valid invitations or
employment contracts in the
U.S. would be exempt from
the ban. The exemption does
not apply to those who seek
a relationship with an Amer-
ican business or educational
institution purely for the
purpose of avoiding the rules.
Refugees
from
any
country will face similar
requirements. But the U.S.
has almost filled its quota of
50,000 refugees for the budget
year ending in September and
the new rules won’t apply
to the few remaining slots.
With the Supreme Court set
to consider the overall ban
in October, the rules could
change again.
The travel ban may have
the largest impact on Iranians.
In 2015, the most recently
available data, nearly 26,000
Iranians were allowed into
the United States on visitor
or tourist visas. Iranians
made up the lion’s share of
the roughly 65,000 foreigners
from the six countries who
visited with temporary, or
non-immigrant visas that
year.
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or uncles — not included in
the State Department’s defi-
nition of “bona fide” personal
relationships.
Much of the confusion in
January, when Trump’s first
ban took effect, resulted from
travelers with previously
approved visas being kept
off flights or barred entry
on arrival in the United
States. Immigration officials
were instructed Thursday
not to block anyone with
valid travel documents and
otherwise eligible to visit the
United States.
Karen Tumlin, legal
director of the National
Immigration Law Center,
said the rules “would slam
the door shut on so many
who have waited for months
or years to be reunited with
their families.
Trump, who made a tough
approach to immigration a
cornerstone of his election
campaign, issued a ban on
travelers from the six coun-
tries, plus Iraq, shortly after
taking office in January. His
order also blocked refugees
from any country.
Trump said these were
temporary measures needed
to prevent terrorism until
vetting procedures could be
reviewed. Opponents noted
that visa and refugee vetting
were already strict and said
there was no evidence that
refugees or citizens of those
six countries posed a threat.
They saw the ban as part of
Trump’s campaign promise
to bar Muslims from entering
the United States.
Lower courts blocked
the initial ban and a second,
revised Trump order intended
to overcome legal hurdles.
The Supreme Court on
Monday partially reinstated
the revised ban but exempted
travelers who could prove
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Travelers make their way up the arrival ramp at the Tom
Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles Interna-
tional Airport Thursday in Los Angeles. After months of
wrangling, tighter restrictions on travel to the U.S. from
six mostly Muslim nations take effect Thursday evening
after the Supreme Court gave its go-ahead for a limited
version of President Donald Trump’s plans for a ban.
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Travel ban takes effect
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