Donald Trump first tried to enact a travel ban to prevent large numbers of immigrants and tourists from reaching the United States, and as early as 2017, large-scale protests broke out at major airports across the country. This time, at least so far, nothing is there. The difference in response helps illustrate the habit of Americans with presidents who exercise their power with discriminatory intentions.
Last night, Trump announced that he would ban travelers from Afghanistan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Mexico, the Republic of Congo, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Sudan and Yemen. The government has also imposed partial restrictions that will prevent people from coming to the United States to immigrate or study, but will allow travel, which is for people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The government said it imposed a ban to prevent future terrorist attacks following Sunday’s anti-Semitic terrorist attacks in Gaza, which supports Israeli hostages. "Recent terrorist attacks in Boulder, Colorado highlight the extreme dangers posed to our country because foreign nationals are not properly censored for entry, as well as those who are reviewed with temporary visitors and downgrade their visas. We don't want them."
The attacker was allegedly an Egyptian national and he had an overdue visa. However, Egypt is not on the travel list, ostensibly because Egypt and the United States work closely on security matters, as Trump hinted yesterday. In other words, the so-called perpetrator's homeland is not a travel ban, which is said to be to protect American Jews from anti-Semitism violence. Of course, even more aggressive bans cannot fully protect Jews from such violence, especially when the President himself has an inspiring history.
The government does offer another more credible explanation for the travel ban: it is targeting countries that are targeted for inappropriately censored travelers and have a high percentage of over-visa highs, just like suspects in the Colorado attack. However, this explanation suggests another motivation: Through this new travel ban, the Trump administration is further developing a population engineering project designed to rule out immigrants that the president believes are impossible due to its ethnic and religious background. Trump calls Latin American and African countries "shithole countries" while nailing them to immigrants in places like Norway. During the 2024 presidential election, Trump said immigration brought "bad genes" into the country. Stephen Miller, Trump’s chief policy adviser, respected other Trump officials, who proposed the idea that when the 1960s it removed partially the racist immigration restrictions that inspired the Nazis, the United States was ruined.
One obvious explanation for these countries with many visas that are too high is that many of these countries are in conflict or run by governments with terrible human rights records. As President of the Refugee Therapy Group Mark Hetfield told Washington Post"These happen to be countries that cultivate refugees, especially those who are interested in resettlement in the United States." The logic of the travel ban is that among the actual refugees in persecution around the world, refugees in the eyes of the U.S. government will not count as refugees, because the government's actions are first and foremost actions to persecute them.
Furthermore, the idea that these governments are not trustworthy seems to be completely arbitrary. After all, Trump only stayed with his blanket in the U.S. refugee program: He accepted “refugees” from the South African government’s “genocide” campaign. As Trump claims, the South African government is “genocide”, how does his administration consider its security screening accurately? If so No It is believed that this is trustworthy, why are other refugees banned due to the shortcomings of the government, and why are they only accept white refugees? The simple answer is that these white refugees are the closest things Trump can find to immigrants “from Norway”. Those who fled the actual persecution of the target country were not white enough to meet Trump's standards of sympathy and were therefore granted asylum in the United States.
Less than a decade ago, Trump's total ban would spark strong protests. But in the following years, the Supreme Court blessed this discriminatory approach, and Trump won reelection with multiple votes. The number of disastrous things the government does puts the opponent's priority. But there is also a reality that Trumpism is an autoimmune disease that has been raging American politics to the point of being small and smalld Democratic antibodies stayed to compete.