Daily Archives: March 7, 2017

“By singling out citizens from these countries for exclusion, Trump’s order may well actually increase the risk of terrorism”

The Washington Post: Trump’s revised travel ban is still cruel and still unconstitutional.

“Today, Donald Trump issued a revised executive order barring entry into the US by citizens of six Muslim-majority nations. The new order replaces an old one that was repeatedly rejected by the courts. The new order is less bad than the old one in some crucial respects. But it is still indefensibly cruel, and still unconstitutional for many of the same reasons as the original.
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Despite those improvements, the order still inflicts cruel harm on refugees and others, while creating little if any security benefit.”