President Trump ' s New Travel Executive Order Has Little National Security Justification

President Trump issued anew proclamation that expanded a list of the so-called “travel ban” countries that were the subject of an executive order he issued early in his administration. His first order temporarily banned the entry of nationals from six countries fordubious national security reasons. His new order expands the list to eight countries (as Isomewhat predicted). They include Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. From the original six, he subtracted Sudan and added Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela. The new executive order is also not a complete ban for all of those countries. AllNorth Koreans and Syrians are barred from obtaining visas while nationals from the other six countries face varying degrees of additional security checks on specific visas or broader categories (such as nonimmigrant or immigrant).President Trump issued anexecutive order earlier this year that temporarily banned the entry of all nationals from six foreign countries in order to “protect the nation from terrorist activities by foreign nationals admitted to the United States.” The six (originally seven) Muslim-majority countries were targeted because of the supposed inability of those governments and the United States to sufficiently vet nationals from there for terroris t intent. The order is currently tied up in the courts.From1975 through the end of 2015, zero Americans have been killed by foreign-born terrorists on U.S. soil who hail from any of the ei...
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