From the AAMC

Okay, I get that, but I don't think you should be allowed to work in healthcare in a country where you don't have citizenship or special "crisis practice rights" (doctors without borders, emergency aid, military etc). Part of what I loved about this administration was putting American workers in American jobs. For medicine it should be no different unless the doctor is willing to become a naturalized citizen.

Plain and simple, if you want to live in the US permanently, you need to be a US citizen. If your from Syria and you immigrate to the us to live permanently, then why would you keep your Syrian citizenship?

You certainly wouldn't want to move back there, the Middle East is a sandy hell hole.

You don't buy a Lamborghini and then keep your worn out, beat to shit 1986 Honda Accord. When you immigrate to the US you do so to leave your old life behind you and accept a newer, better American one. So why keep your Middle Eastern citizenship?

The USA as a sovereign state has the right to bar entry and eject non-citizens from areas that it deems a threat. I feel deeply for those affected, but sadly that is the risk you take when you dwell in a country where you are not a citizen. Until we can get the Islamic terror business sorted out on the Middle East, we need to look after our own citizens first. It's sad. But the political rights of a non-US citizen doesn't mean a thing to me compared to my own countrymen. Americans come first in times of emergency, and after events like the Pulse nightclub shootings, the San Bernadino shootings, the Islamic attack at Ohio Stare, the Orlando Airport shootings, and the dozens or so Islamic terror attacks in the past 2 years in Europe, Islamic Terror is very much a global crisis. This isn't an isolated 9/11 anymore, it's occurring on a global scale primarily from immigrants in these regions.

American citizen safety should come first in times of emergency, above all else. That is not bigotry or islamophobia, but care for the safety of my fellow American citizens. I would say the same if it was any other nationality or religious affiliation, even if it was a Protestant white terror group.

I don't think someone who has lived in the country for 20-30 years is going to suddenly become an ISIS operative, but by not renouncing their foreign citizenship they will be an unwanted victim of this policy. It's sad but necessary.

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