The job-creating, anti-extremist Canadian Conservative with a maple leaf tattoo now banned from the U.S. | National Post
2017/01/31 Leave a comment
National Post profile of the staffer Jason Kenney mentioned in his tweets (dealt with him during my time at CIC/IRCC, sharp guy, pleasant to deal with. Married to Candice Malcolm, another former staffer and current Sun columnist who is also extremely conservative and, IMO, overly partisan in her critiques):
Canadian Kasra Nejatian renounced his Iranian citizenship at 17, got a maple leaf tattoo and has been such an outspoken critic of the Islamic republic that he believes he would be immediately arrested if he ever returned.
He owns a tech company, Kash, with more than a dozen employees in the United States.
He’s also extremely Conservative. He spent years as a staffer for former Tory immigration minister Jason Kenney, who has described him as “one of the most hawkish people I know on national security and integration.”
“This is virtue-signalling security theatre,” Nejatian told the National Post by phone from San Francisco.
On Friday, Trump issued an executive order that banned U.S. entry to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia, for 90 days.The suddenness of the ban meant that any nationals from the affected countries who were already airborne at the time of the order were detained upon landing.
The order does not make exceptions for nationals with valid U.S. visas.
Nejatian — who helped form Canada’s own protocol for screening would-be terrorists — said the new order “almost certainly makes the U.S. less safe.”
For one thing, the ban is so blunt that it excludes foreign-born nationals regardless of their loyalty to the United States, he noted.
Multicultural Meanderings 