With Trump in office a lot of orders have been passed but one order has left people in the dark, and that was his ban on immigration.
On January 31, 2017, Trump passed an order putting a ban on travel in and out of Muslim countries, but only ones that he did not do business with. The countries he did ban include; Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
These countries that Trump has banned have not, in the past 40 years, had any of their citizens kill a single American, according to CNN.com. The four Middle Eastern countries that Trump did not ban, which include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and United Arab Emirates, have all had attacks on American soil.
In the past week, President Trump has been working on a new executive order for the ban on Muslim countries. The executive order is said to come out on February 13, and supposedly going to be stronger than the past ban on Muslim countries.
“There is no precedent to support his claimed nonreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy,” the judges from the Justice Department wrote, according to nbcnews.com.
For those coming from a place with a majority of muslim population, one can only hope that the new executive order coming out will allow them to travel and visit family, and hopefully it will not do too much harm to our foreign relations with those Muslim countries in the ban.
“I echo CCS leadership’s stance that our international students, immigrant students, and students who are undocumented are welcome here, and that we should value and respect these students,” said Ashley Ding, International Students representative. “They are essential to our identity and excellence. It is my job to support our international students and their well-being in any ways I can, and I pledge to do so.”
[twocol_one_last]Nicolas Zerbe
In a sea of misinformation, President Trump’s new immigration policy may not be as nefarious as you think.The current narrative seems to be that President Trump conveniently neglected to include Islamic countries with whom he had business in his broad immigration ban this January. Unfortunately for some opposed to the ban, this is little more than coincidence.
The executive order cites a list provided by the Secretary of Homeland Security of countries whose government was found to have repeatedly provided support in acts of terrorism.
The list in question was curated by Homeland Security in 2015 under the Obama administration.
The executive order itself is not actually creating new laws. Instead, President Trump’s ban is simply enforcing a law that has been in place for many years. The McCarran-Walter act, which is the law cited in the order, states that the president may allow for the suspension of travel from aliens into our country if the United States deems their presence detrimental.
The law was last used by democratic president Jimmy Carter.
Something important to keep in mind with regards to the ban is that not only is it temporary, but quite short. The ban is currently set to last only three months during which the Trump administration expects national security agencies to properly deal with what they see as a threat to our nation.
“I don’t think that it’s a long term solution,” said Whitney Root, student at SFCC. “Trump is just trying to get control over what’s going on in the country.”
While Washington State has recently stepped forward to oppose the ban in federal court, it appears most americans don’t share the same view. According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 49% of Americans approve of the ban while 10% are still unsure – only 41% disagree.
The fact is, the majority of citizens are in favor of the immigration ban.