It may be the only thing that prevents more funerals.
The political and media elite erupted again this week when President Trump stated that, if reelected, he would “absolutely revoke citizenship from naturalized criminals” and take strong measures to protect Americans from violent offenders who entered under our increasingly broken immigration system. He reminded audiences that he has the authority to do so, and that protecting the American people is not only legitimate — it is the first responsibility of the commander in chief. The statement immediately reignited the debate over immigration from radicalized regions and the now-infamous “Muslim Ban.”
The truth is that the “Muslim Ban” was never a Muslim ban. Critics shouted the phrase loudly and often enough that many Americans never learned what the policy actually did. The original executive order did not prohibit Muslims from entering the United States. It restricted travel and refugee entry from seven countries racked by civil war, controlled by terror networks, or lacking reliable identity-verification systems. Those countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — were identified not because they were Muslim, but because they were unstable, violent, or compromised states. In other words, the ban was targeted at the highest-risk points of entry, where terrorism was statistically the most concentrated and where vetting was impossible. That’s not bigotry; that’s basic national security.
And given what we know today, it was one of the most responsible foreign-policy decisions made in the last quarter-century.
This week’s headlines provide fresh, horrifying evidence that the threat is not theoretical. After the killing of an innocent National Guard troop and the critical wounding of another by a shooter reportedly here illegally from Afghanistan — a country President Biden handed back to the Taliban in a historic failure — Americans are once again confronted with the consequences of importing instability and hoping for the best. Afghanistan is now once again a global terrorist incubator. To pretend that migrants from such environments present no risk is willful ignorance dressed up as compassion.
At the same time, in Europe, a story emerged so brutal it would be dismissed as implausible if it appeared in a film script. According to multiple reports, including Fox News coverage of Dutch prosecution statements, a Muslim father and his two sons in the Netherlands have been charged with drowning their 18-year-old daughter in a swamp because she adopted what they called “a Western lifestyle” and refused to wear a headscarf. It is being investigated as an honor killing — an execution carried out in the name of “family purity.” That phrase alone should send chills down the spine of anyone who cares about human dignity.
Honor killings. Forced circumcision of girls in Sudan. Female genital mutilation across large portions of North Africa. Wife-beating legalized or tacitly protected in parts of the Middle East. Public executions for leaving Islam. Children forced into child marriage. Women treated not as human beings but as property whose “value” is based on obedience. These are not fringe anomalies. They are cultural norms in large swaths of the Muslim world. They openly defy the American idea that life has inherent worth. --->READ MORE HERE
The Trump administration announced it is expanding its travel ban to more than 30 countries in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC, by an Afghan national.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the expansion of the June travel ban, which barred 19 countries from partially or entirely sending their citizens to the US.
“If they don’t have a stable government there, if they don’t have a country that can sustain itself and tell us who those individuals are and help us vet them, why should we allow people from that country to come here to the United States?” Noem asked Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday.
DHS did not announce which countries will be included in the expanded ban and did not state when it will go into effect.
The June ban fully restricted travel from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
That ban also established partial restrictions on Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The Trump administration’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services further directed a hold on green card and citizenship applications for people from those 19 countries.
The agency also announced a hold on “all pending asylum applications, regardless of the alien’s country of nationality.”
The ramped up restrictions come in the wake of the broad-daylight shooting of two West Virginia National Guard troops in Washington, DC, on Nov. 26. The attack was carried out by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who came to the US under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome. --->READ MORE HERE
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