President Trump’s Travel Orders and National Security
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 25, 2018
President Trump has issued two executive orders and one presidential proclamation restricting the entry of certain foreign nationals to the United States. While those actions have been deemed "travel bans", this is a misnomer, as each only applied to certain nationals from certain countries.
How did we get here? The story begins well before the Trump administration.
Concerns about terrorist exploitation of our immigration system were heightened following the Paris attacks in November 2015, which left 130 people dead.1 Press reports stated
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