In a major expansion of his assault on legal immigration , Donald Trump today announced a massive new travel ban . It goes beyond those instituted in his first term. My Cato Institute colleague Alex Nowrasteh - a leading immigration policy expert - has a helpful summary of the travel ban , and why it's utterly unjustified:

President Trump announced that he's banning almost all travel and immigration from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen for " terrorism-related and public-safety risks ." There are some exceptions for adoptions, immediate family members of US citizens, and a handful of other visas. A single terrorist from those countries murdered one person in an attack on US soil: Emanuel Kidega Samso

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