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Trump's New Travel Ban: What You Need To Know

Mar. 13, 2017
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Last Monday, President Trump signed an executive order introducing his new travel ban to America. The first travel ban was blocked by the federal appeals court after a massive amount of protests that erupted all over the country. There a few differences in the new executive order but Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary, says, “The principles of the executive order remain the same.” 

The first travel ban was ruled unconstitutional as it discriminated against countries with a Muslim Majority and this new bill faces similar opposition as it is still viewed as an attempt at a Muslim ban. Chuck Schumer, Senate Democratic leader, referred to the new executive order as a “watered-down ban” and that it is “mean spirited and un-American.”

Many Americans are still upset with this revised travel ban and several states are beginning to launch legal challenges against President’s Trump’s executive order. The lawyers for these states claim that the initial complaints still apply to this new ban. On Friday the revised travel ban faced its first setback in a court showdown in Wisconsin, U.S. District Judge William Conley granted a restraining order to the family of a Syrian Refugee because they face a “significant risk of irreparable harm” if they cannot leave Syria. More states are expected to challenge Trump’s executive order this week. 

So what exactly did President Trump change? Clearly, not enough, because the travel ban still discriminates against Muslims and puts anti-Muslim hatred into American Policy. 

The first major change in the Travel Ban 2.0 is that Iraq no longer is included in the ban, because Defense Secretary Jim Mattis feared it would hinder coordination to defeat the Islamic State. That being said, citizens from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen are still impacted by the 90-day travel ban. The second change is that green card holders from the named countries are no longer impacted by the ban. The third change is the new executive order will not instantaneously take place without people’s knowledge. It has been scheduled to go into effect on March 16th.  The fourth change excludes phrases that exempt religious minorities. For example, the first travel ban stated, “when the person is a religious minority in his country of nationality facing religious persecution.” The fifth and final difference is that the new ban treats Syrians the same as other refugee whereas before the old ban suspended immigration from Syria indefinitely.

Regardless of the changes that are in the new executive order, how can we accept a travel ban, which according to Sean Spicer, maintains “principles that remain the same"? The first ban created a policy that upheld anti-Muslim Hatred and the second ban is just a “watered-down” version that continues to further President Trumps mission of “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”

To help pushback against this travel ban you can call your legislators to spark change. 

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Click here to find tips on what you can say to your representatives. 

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