On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signs executive order barring entry to refugees and immigrants to enter the United State. This travel bans block entry from seven predominantly Muslim nations for three months. Trump claim that the travel ban will protect the United State from outside threats. Although keeping people safe is the president job, people outside of the United States have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The travel bans only did more harms to people who were lawfully admitted entry to the United States than they did to help the people inside.
The United States started out as a country of immigrants. People who came to find a life where they can be happy. Centuries later, America is more barred off to the ideas of life and happiness than ever before. The very idea of the American dreams is now only accessible to a fence off community. People had migrated here before to make a magnificent
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President Obama halts the entries of Iraqis refugees for six months. In 2011, after two Iraqi refugees from Kentucky was found to be involved in a bombing attack on U.S. troops in Iraq, President Obama delay Iraqi visas to fix the flaws in the screening process (Keily, par. 2). The two men were arrest by FBI agents for trying to assist overseas terrorist groups by sending money, explosives and weapons to al-Qaida. “One man worked as a bomb maker in Iraq, and the FBI even matched his fingerprints to an unexploded IED Discovered in 2005 in Iraq (Qiu, par. 8). This action, by the Obama administrations, was taken to limit only one country in response to a specific threat. Secondly, President Obama orders dealt with Iraqis refugees while President Trump ban deals with all non-U.S. citizens visitor. President Trump ban had few causes and no direct threat was present at the given time, making the comparison between Obama and Trump ban