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>According to the filing, Hameed Khalid Darweesh was granted a special immigrant visa on Jan. 20, the same day Mr. Trump was sworn in. He worked with the United States in Iraq in a variety of jobs — as an interpreter, engineer and contractor — over the course of roughly a decade.

This is completely insane. Not only is it a blatant violation of human rights and our treaties regarding refugees, but this is going to be a major blow to our national security. The promise of American citizenship is one of the major driving factors for informants and interpreters around the world that help our armed forces. Trump seems hellbent on making life miserable for anyone tasked with actually protecting our country.

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So we should invite traitors and collaborators into the USA? Those are the last people we should allow to join us here. That's the thing about cheaters: They cheated on their last partner with you and they'll cheat on you soon enough.

If we'd keep our noses out of nation building where it's none of our business we'd need a whole lot less of these people. Let that be a lesson to us the next time a fool president wants to invade a new Iraq.

These people have sacrificed more for our country than most Americans. They are some of the most patriotic people you'll ever meet, because they know how horrible other governments can be and they have worked incredibly hard to get to America, unlike native born Americans. Calling them cheaters for helping us kill terrorists is comical. They are heroes.

What an unbelievably stupid thing to say. Traitors from war-torn, corrupt and authoritarian countries become traitors by risking their (and their families) lives to fight for the right values not because they are cheaters! The countries that are built on these values should support them as much as they can.

>So we should invite traitors and collaborators into the USA?

I'd like to see you call the Kurdish interpreters I served with in Iraq traitors. Do you actually have any idea what you're talking about, or just spouting nonsense? These people are fighting for their lives against terrorists, too. And at much greater risk than we did.

Of course the USA should support the recognition of the Kurdish state and its success and freedom. And that is where Kurdish aides to the US have a right to live.

I think that you're making a good point here. This should serve as a disincentive to those people from collaborating with a foreign enemy invading their country, and also could provide a disincentive to US governments from starting unnecessary wars and invading other countries and killing innocent people as no one would risk their life for them esp. in the absence of economic or social benefits.

Maybe this is the silver lining in all this mess created by this far-right administration

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