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Trump’s Travel Ban Fixed a Real-World Security Problem

January 20, 2021 by Todd Bensman

Its demise promises a return to peril By Todd Bensman as published January 21, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies A few years before President Donald Trump instituted his so-called "travel ban" on now-13 countries, the 21-year-old Sudanese citizen Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan entered the United States with his siblings and mother on temporary Legal Permanent Resident visas. At the … [Read more...] about Trump’s Travel Ban Fixed a Real-World Security Problem

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security Tagged With: counterterrorism, terrorists, muslims, travel ban

Washington Post Story “Undoing Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’” Perpetuated an Erroneous Narrative

December 7, 2020 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman, as published December 4, 2020 by Townhall.com A December 2 Washington Post story about President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to immediately do away with the travel restrictions on 13 countries — the inaccurately named but popularly known “Muslim Travel Ban” — perpetuated an unsupported Democratic partisan assertion that should not go unchallenged. The … [Read more...] about Washington Post Story “Undoing Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’” Perpetuated an Erroneous Narrative

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security Tagged With: terrorism, Washington Post, Muslim terrorism, travel ban

Investigative Project on Terrorism: Ending Trump Travel Ban Portends Return to Immigration Security Challenges

November 19, 2020 by Todd Bensman

Trump’s travel ban eliminated the problem of vetting the histories, backgrounds, hearts and minds of immigrant visa applicants from ungoverned nations like Yemen, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia, where record-keeping systems that can track terrorists are severely dysfunctional, or don’t exist. If Biden repeals it, how would the United States filter out dangerous applicants from pre-modern … [Read more...] about Investigative Project on Terrorism: Ending Trump Travel Ban Portends Return to Immigration Security Challenges

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security Tagged With: Islamic terror, Muslim terrorism, security vetting, national security, travel ban, immigration

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