After January’s controversial travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries, Donald Trump signs a revised immigration policy that will prevent terrorists from entering the United States. This aims to curb the chances of terrorists from entering the country and to cut the ties of suspected terrorists inside the country from cells abroad.
The previous travel policy banned people from seven Muslim countries namely: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. However, due to the massive protests and legal actions made against the ban, Trump now doles out this new and revised travel policy that adheres more to the policies made by the previous administration.
According to CNN, the new travel ban takes effect on March 16 and one of its striking difference is the clear exemption of Iraq from the list of countries affected by the policy. Green card holders from the listed countries are no longer affected by the travel ban. Also, Syrian refugees are no longer stringently affected by the ban, though extreme vetting are still put in place to safeguard the country from possible terrorist hitchhikers.Syrian refugees will now undergo a 120-day entry ban but not indefinitely.
The White house continues to remind the people that the travel ban is not targeting Muslim, unlike the claims being put forward by Donald Trump’s critics. However, Trump’s opposition continues to voice out their dissent, especially placing emphasis that terrorists’ attacks in the US. They state that attacks in the US are perpetrated by either people, who are already in the country or people coming from countries not included in the list.
President Trump's travel ban aims to prevent terrorists from entering the country and this is the deep rationale for the issuance of such a policy. Though many disagree with the action, it is a chance Trump took showing that the country is still reeling from string of terrorists’ attacks that rocked the country.
