The Immigration Ban

My first thought when I read about this ban was that The President just put a target on the back of every citizen of this country who travels out of the country.  President Trump (or is it President Bannon?) is apparently not only a heartless person with regards to refugees but also seemingly doesn't care about the safety of U.S. citizens who travel the world.  Does he not realize that this will just incite other countries against us?  What kind of foreign policy is this?  

This executive order has been criticized by not only U.S. citizens but other world leaders.  The article "Merkle, May Criticize Trump's Refugee Ban" by Anton Troianovski and Jason Douglas (link below) indicate that both leaders of Germany and the U.K. disagree with the ban.  Apparently Ms. Merkle, the German leader, had to explain the refugee policy that the U.S. signed in 1967.  She reminded him of the Geneva Conventions.  It is unbelievable that the President is so determined to alienate even our closest allies.   Canada and France have also spoken out against this policy.  

http://www.wsj.com/articles/merkel-calls-u-s-refugee-ban-unjustified-1485687277?mod=e2tw

This ban is not the same as 2011 when the Obama administration halted refugee applications from Iraq.  According to the CNN article "Trump Defends Executive Order Concerning Extreme Vetting" by Kevin Liptak "Trump cast the move as in line with the previous administration's moves to combat terrorism, writing: "My policy is similar to what President (Barack) Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months."  While Obama did order his administration to pause consideration of Iraqi refugee applications for six month in 2011, Trump's action is far more sweeping, preventing all citizens of Iraq from entering the United States for 90 days.  The other nations under the same restrictions are Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen." (link attached)

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/donald-trump-executive-order-statement/index.html

The ban with prevents ALL citizens from 7 predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S. for 3 months, is nothing more than religious persecution by the Trump administration.  The order did not include Saudi Arabia where most of the 9/11 terrorists were from.  Note that this country is where Trump owns property.  

It appears that the ACLU has filed suits in a number of states.  Hopefully justice will prevail.  We do NOT want to go back to that era in time when we denied Jews entry in our country who were fleeing the Nazi's or when we systematically rounded up all the Asians and placed them in internment camps in the U.S.  Surely we are better than this.  

The final link I have attached is a video by Fareed Zakaria of CNN.  It's about 2-3 minutes and is worth the watch.  He provides statistics to back up his claim that this is simply Fear Mongering by the Trump administration.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/01/29/exp-gps-0129-take-travel-ban.cnn/video/playlists/trump-travel-ban/