Trump Targets a New Group of Immigrants ---African immigrants appear to be in the president's sights
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/african-immigrants-may-be-trumps-next-target/605506/
Trump Targets a New Group of Immigrants
He previously trained his nativist ire on Muslims and Latinos. Now African immigrants appear to be in the presidents sights.
Last week, Politico reported that the Trump administration was considering adding seven new countries to its travel ban. A majority of themEritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, and Nigeria, which is by far the most populous of the sevenare in Africa. The rationalization appears to involve terrorism. In the counterterrorism section of a January 17 speech, Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, declared, Were establishing criteria that all foreign governments must satisfy to assist DHS in vetting foreign nationals seeking to enter our country
For a small number of countries that lack either the will or the capability to adhere to these criteria, travel restrictions may become necessary to mitigate threats.
Because the Supreme Court upheld Donald Trumps travel ban in 2018 on national-security grounds, its not surprising that administration officials would cite that same rationale to expand the ban now. But the argument is weak. According to numbers crunched by the Cato Institutes Alex Nowrasteh when Trump first imposed the ban three years ago, not a single person born in Eritrea, Tanzania, Nigeria, or Sudan killed a single American in a terrorist attack on American soil from 1975 to 2016. (The same is true of Belarus and Myanmar, two of the other three countries Trump may add to the travel-ban roster. Two people from Kyrgyzstan, the final country, were implicated in deadly anti-American terrorism incidents during the period, according to Nowrastehs tally.)