The Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s travel ban in a 5-4 decision. The travel ban undermines a core principle of the U.S. immigration system since 1965: that the law will not discriminate against immigrants based on nationality or place of birth. The president has rewritten our immigration laws as he sees fit based on the thinnest national security pretext, setting a dangerous precedent for the future.
The ban entirely lacks any reasonable basis in the facts. Nationals of the targeted countries have not carried out any deadly terrorist attacks in the United States, and they are also much less likely to commit other crimes in the United States. Nor are their governments less able or willing than others to share information or adopt certain identity management protocols.
Read more at https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-court-ruling-travel-ban-should-concern-all-legal-immigrants
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