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Topic subjectRE: About this court fiasco with the executive order and the immigrants and/or refugees from other countries.
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217518, RE: About this court fiasco with the executive order and the immigrants and/or refugees from other countries.
Posted by jasonlevine, Mon Feb-13-17 02:31 AM
I'd also call it a fiasco different than other executive orders because most executive orders are given to various departments pre-approval for them to look over and find flaws in. This way, the executive order's language can be tweaked for maximum effectiveness with minimum side effects. They also usually allow for a delay before they take effect to ensure proper communication.

In my job as a web developer, I do something similar. If I'm making a web application, I'll write it out and then show it to various people who would need to use it. I'll have a small group of them use it in beta form for awhile to shake out any bugs and improve the process flow. When an application is ready to go live, I'll schedule a day for the go-live and will communicate/demo the application to as many people who will need to use it as possible. This way, when it goes live, people will know all about it and won't be caught off-guard with no clue as to what they need to do.

Trump's executive order, on the other hand, wasn't given to anyone to look over (except for some Republican congressional staffers who were forced to sign an NDA). It was implemented immediately without any communication as to how it should be enforced.

Going back to my web application analogy, this would be like me radically changing the look, feel, and functionality of this website without any communication and then trying to claim that the chaos that ensued wasn't my fault at all.