Today President
Trump signed a revised version of his executive order that would for the first
time rewrite U.S. immigration policy to
bar migrants from predominantly Muslim nations, removing citizens of Iraq from
the original travel embargo and scrapping a provision that explicitly protected
religious minorities.
The new
executive order says,
“Nationals
from the countries previously identified under section 217(a)(12) of the INA
warrant additional scrutiny in connection with our immigration policies because
the conditions in these countries present heightened threats. Each of these
countries is a state sponsor of terrorism, has been significantly compromised
by terrorist organizations, or contains active conflict zones. Any of these
circumstances diminishes the foreign government’s willingness or ability to
share or validate important information about individuals seeking to travel to
the United States. Moreover, the significant presence in each of these
countries of terrorist organizations, their members, and others exposed to
those organizations increases the chance that conditions will be exploited to
enable terrorist operatives or sympathizers to travel to the United States.
Finally, once foreign nationals from these countries are admitted to the United
States, it is often difficult to remove them, because many of these countries
typically delay issuing, or refuse to issue, travel documents.”
NYTimes.
Glenn Thrush
The
order, which comes about a month after federal judges blocked Mr. Trump’s haphazardly
executed ban in January on residents from seven Middle Eastern and African
countries, will not affect people who had previously been issued visas — a
change that the administration hopes will avoid the chaos, protests and legal
challenges that followed the first order….
Since
2001, 18 of the 36 Muslim who have engaged in attacks inside the
United States were born in the United States, while 14 migrated here as
children and would not have been stopped by the new vetting process, according
to an analysis by Charles Kurzman, a professor at the University of North
Carolina.
None came from the banned nations;
Muslim extremists have accounted for 16 out of 240,000 murders in the United
States since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/travel-ban-muslim-trump.html?
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