re: #10 RanchTooth

In my opinion… why aren’t ALL foreign nationals who are detained by ICE subjected to a third agency check.

I tried to explain that multiple times, however let me try a different tack.

There is a list. It is a list of specially designated countries (SDCs). There would be no list of “all countries”, that would be silly. Now disposing of this list of SDC’s might have been you point all along, and you might have felt that any list would be wrong. Like you say now ALL foreign nationals should be checked for third agency interest.

However the point of the post was that there is a list. The list is specifically “countries that have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members”.

Now you can change the subject away from what the list actually said, or try and discuss a policy that does not exist (all foreign nationals should be checked for third agency interest). If it ever does exist, I will debate that with you happily.

In the meanwhile, the question is do you think the country of Israel has “shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members”? Does it belong on a list of countries that have?

The Obama administration has said it does not, and that putting it on that list was a mistake.

I for one would love to see the data that caused the mistake. I would love to know where it came from and what it said. However that request would have to come from a citizen in the form of a FOIA request.