Donald Trump’s Refugee Executive Order: No Muslim Ban -- Separating Fact from Hysteria | National Review:
"The hysterical rhetoric about President Trump’s executive order on refugees is out of control.
Let’s slow down and take a look at the facts.
To read the online commentary, one would think that President Trump just fundamentally corrupted the American character.
You would think that the executive order on refugees he signed yesterday betrayed America’s Founding ideals.
You might even think he banned people from an entire faith from American shores...
CNN, doing its best Huffington Post impersonation, ran a headline declaring “Trump bans 134,000,000 from the U.S.”
The Huffington Post, outdoing itself, just put the Statue of Liberty upside down on its front page.
So, what did Trump do?
Did he implement his promised Muslim ban?
No, far from it.
He backed down dramatically from his campaign promises and instead signed an executive order dominated mainly by moderate refugee restrictions and temporary provisions aimed directly at limiting immigration from jihadist conflict zones.
Let’s analyze the key provisions, separate the fact from the hysteria, and introduce just a bit of historical perspective..."
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