Pool/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.President Donald Trump has made a dazzlingly stormy start. He began his term in office by rushing to realise the promises he had made during the campaign season: building The Wall across the US border with Mexico, and imposing a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
He had made pledges indirectly and implicitly through inflammatory statements, promising to bring apartheid back to political decision-making. But now his immigration reforms, instructed through a 27 January 2017 executive order, fulfil Trump’s campaign season aspiration to impose the ban. He has singled out seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen.
Syria is known to be a failed state after several years of internal conflict, exacerbated by the violent activities of ISIS. Libya has experienced a very chaotic period of transition, from being ruled by an unpopular leader to a period of being left in political vacuum. Do these difficulties demand that the nationals of these countries be subject to a blanket ban on their traveling rights? Trump has condemned the futures of those who want peaceful lives; those running from war and chaos at home, those looking for a better future for their children, and those looking for a comfortable life away from political conflicts day and night.
