Will More Countries Be Added to Trump ’s Migration Ban?

President Trump ’s executive order is facing numerous court challenges, including atemporary restraining order.   My colleague David Bier has made a convincingstatutoryargument that Trump ’s temporarily ban on issuing visas to the nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen is unlawful.  The genesis of Trump’s executive order was his campaign promise of aMuslim ban which, although unpopular, is built on a sturdier legal foundation than a 21st-century national origins quota.   If the court challenges fail and Trump’s ban is legal then there is a high probability that the bans will be extended and expanded to additional countries.  Indeed,section 2, subsections e and f of the executive leaves open the possibility of extending the length of such bans and extending them to additional countries.  The Trump administration will have to consider several points in order to place additional countries on the banned list.   The first is political.  Trump promised he was going to block countries that could send terrorists here after he called for a Muslim ban (that he later retracted).  He also seems committed to fulfilling his campaign promises through executive orders.  The other political consideration is avoid ing the fierce criticism and mass protests that accompanied his first executive order.  Must of this opposition was based on the erroneous assumption that this executive order was a Muslim ban, although some opponents could be forgiven...
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