Border policy of Donald Trump
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Trump's border policies focus on the protection of the United States from foreign terror threats and on the prioritization of the protection of minorities. Trump's ban on Muslim countries is a list of countries chosen with Democrat support during Obama's administration.[1][2] In response, many people have taken to the streets to protest.[3]
Prioritization on Protection of Minorities
Trump’s directive will "prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality."[4]
During the Obama administration's handling of refugee claims, Muslims were prioritized while minorities such as Yazidis were disadvantaged. When Obama dramatically expanded Syrian refugee admissions in 2016 that allowed 13,210 Syrian refugees, an increase of 675 percent over 2015, 13,100 (99.1 percent) were Muslims, 77 (0.5 percent) were Christians and 24 (0.18 percent) were Yazidis.[4] Although, Christians represented roughly 10 percent of Syria’s population,[4] their refugee admittance was only 0.5 percent in 2016. It has been called a "gross underrepresentation of the non-Muslim communities in the numbers of Syrian refugees into the U.S" and George Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, said that Syria's Christian communities are being "left at the bottom of the heap" for their asylum.[5]
Anti-Terror Ban on 7 Muslim Countries from Entering the United States of America
On January 27, 2017, after 7 days of taking office, Trump signed an executive order, entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States", that would impose a 30-day ban on entry to the United States for visitors and visa holders from seven Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
The seven Muslim countries were chosen with Democrat support during Barack Obama's presidency and are found in a bill that Obama signed into law in December 2015, the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act.[1][2] Those restrictions were an early response to the San Bernardino shooting and Paris attacks, but in both cases the assailants were nationals of the countries in which they carried out such violence.[1]
Trump also clarified that the ban "is about terror and keeping our country safe" and "is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting".[6]
Objectively, the goal is to give time to improve the vetting process and then cap refugee admissions at 50,000 per year, which is a number midway between the refugee admission numbers in George W. Bush's 8-year presidential terms and Obama's 8-year presidential terms because Obama dramatically ramped up refugee admissions in one year in 2016.[4] Objectively, "Obama’s expansion was a departure from recent norms, not Trump’s contraction."[4]
Although Trump's policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months, many people have taken to the streets to protest.[3]
A counter-claim to the protests is the need for security. Europe's "drive to remove frontiers is dangerously inappropriate in an era of mass migration from the Middle East, Asia and Africa" because "in several deadly terrorist attacks, extremists have found it easier to operate because they can move freely around the borderless Schengen area".[7] Learning from that experience, "the need to tighten its border security is understandable" logically.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mic. "Donald Trump didn't come up with the list of Muslim countries he wants to ban. Obama did". Mic. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "What Trump's Executive Order on Immigration Does—and Doesn't Do". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "U.S. tempers part of Trump travel ban amid big protests, criticism".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Donald Trump's Refugee Executive Order: No Muslim Ban - Separating Fact from Hysteria". National Review. 2017-01-23. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
- ↑ [1] The State Department Turns Its Back on Syrian Christians and Other Non-Muslim Refugees
- ↑ [2] Trump is now complaining that his order is being called a "Muslim ban"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 [3] Donald Trump's answer on immigration is questionable, but he's right that there is a problem to solve
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