[–] AreWeSure 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
The article you link to does not support your contention. Note the big BUT in the headline and the fact that point to the Washington Post's fact checker calling it false.
At the bottom of the Washington Post fact check is this update.
Update: Former Obama administration official Jon Finer denied that any ban in Iraqi refugee admissions was put in place under Obama. “While the flow of Iraqi refugees slowed significantly during the Obama administration’s review, refugees continued to be admitted to the United States during that time, and there was not a single month in which no Iraqis arrived here,” he wrote in Foreign Policy. “In other words, while there were delays in processing, there was no outright ban.”
Another former official, Eric P. Schwartz, the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration at the time, also told The Fact Checker that Trump’s statement is false:
“President Obama never imposed a six-month ban on Iraqi processing. For several months in 2011, there was a lower level of Iraqi resettlement, as the government implemented certain security enhancements. Indeed, as we identified new and valuable opportunities to enhance screening, we did so. Nobody should object to a continual effort to identify legitimate enhancements, but it is disreputable to use that as a pretext to effectively shut down a program that is overwhelmingly safe and has enabled the United States to exercise world leadership. In any event, there was never a point during that period in which Iraqi resettlement was stopped, or banned.”
[–] AreWeSure ago (edited ago)
No. He did not.
It involved Iraq not Iran. There was no "freeze." They slowed the process because they were making the review more stringent, but the process continued and it was not executed in the chaotic way this order was. I happened to be flying back to NYC Saturday. It was memorable.
Also Giuliani and others have come forward to say Trump asked them to find a way ban Muslims which is unconstitutional.