Immigration Ban Is Unlikely to Reduce Terrorist Threat, Experts Say.
'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 presidents 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 orders 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 orders 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.
The larger point of experts is that jihadist attacks garner news attention that far outstrips their prevalence in the United States, and the presidents order appears to address not a rational calculation of risks but the visceral fears that terrorists set out to inflame.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/politics/a-sweeping-order-unlikely-to-reduce-terrorist-threat.html?
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)I don't think I hate Twitler anymore. He can't help it that he's stupid and mentally ill. Bannon, on the other hand, is an evil, sick, twisted, piss poor excuse for a human being. He knows exactly what he is doing. May he rot in hell, sooner rather than later.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)And I will be really pissed off when he starts using US troops to guard his fucking hotels in the Middle East