OrangeBlack said:
It's not really a ban, it's a temporary travel restriction for 4 months. The idea is to make sure that refugees & immigrants that come into this country are properly vetted. Certainly, it's not a perfect system....they're trying to figure it out as they go along. Hopefully, this leads to a clean process that's acceptable to both sides. It's not unreasonable to state that if you allow hundreds of thousands of people free entry into the US from both Mexico & the travel banned countries....it will lead to bad risks that will infiltrate those ranks. Yes, 99% of the people that come in to the US are good people....vetting keeps out the other 1%. Is it profiling....probably.
Is there a better way to do it? It's very unfortunate that innocents at JFK right now are caught in the wide net that was cast. I feel bad for them & their families.
You are right, it isn't an outright ban on Muslims:
Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia - The seven countries placed on the ban list. Number of terrorists from these countries that perpetrated 9/11 = zero.
Saudi Arabia - no ban. 15 of 19 were from here.
Lebanon - 1 of the 19
Egypt - 1 of the 19
UAE - 2 of the 19
Trump conveniently does a fair amount of business with Egypt and Saudia Arabia.