Immigration Ban Is Unlikely to Reduce Terrorist Threat, Experts Say

[DonViejo]

By SCOTT SHANEJAN. 28, 2017

Rarely does an executive order announce a more straightforward and laudable purpose than the one President Trump signed on Friday: “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States.” But the president’s directive is unlikely to significantly reduce the terrorist threat in the United States, which has been a minuscule part of the overall toll of violence since 2001.

Many experts believe the order’s unintended consequences will make the threat worse.

While the order requires the Department of Homeland Security to issue a report within 180 days providing detailed statistics on foreign nationals who commit acts of violence, terrorism researchers have already produced rich and revealing data. For instance, since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, no one has been killed in the United States in a terrorist attack by anyone who emigrated from or whose parents emigrated from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the seven countries targeted in the order’s 120-day visa ban, according to Charles Kurzman, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina.

Of Muslim Americans involved in violent extremism of any kind — for instance, charged with plotting terrorism or supporting a terrorist group — only 23 percent had family backgrounds in those countries, said Mr. Kurzman, who just published the latest of his annual studies of Muslim Americans and terrorism.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/politics/a-sweeping-order-unlikely-to-reduce-terrorist-threat.html

[SHRED]

1. No shit

I'm glad the "experts" realize this.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Well, duh...

From what I've seen, NONE of the people detained was in any way illegal. All were traveling on valid visas and had valid green cards or other documentation.

[onecaliberal]

3. It's going to upset people. It's going to have the opposite effect.

[jaxind]

4. Duh!!

It will backfire, and we will have more people joining ISIS, and even new terrorist organizations forming!