Nicole Narea, Vox News, Jan. 30, 2025
“Inside days of taking workplace in 2017, President Donald Trump applied a blanket ban on entry from seven Muslim-majority international locations. It was met with livid pushback, public outcry, and a string of defeats in courtroom. This time round, regardless of signing an preliminary barrage of government orders, Trump has not applied a journey ban. However that doesn’t imply it’s not coming. One in every of his Day 1 government orders, consultants say, takes step one towards a brand new journey ban — one which may very well be much more in depth than the primary time round. … In his first time period, Trump introduced a ban with out specifying why the focused international locations raised nationwide safety issues and didn’t initially articulate any evaluate course of by which the bans may very well be lifted. That’s what doomed the coverage in courtroom, mentioned Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration regulation apply at Cornell Regulation Faculty and writer of a textbook on immigration regulation. “I feel that they’ve realized from their errors within the first administration, setting issues up in order that in the event that they need to do a journey ban, it’s pretty prone to be upheld in courtroom,” he mentioned. … In line with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a professor at Ohio State College Faculty of Regulation and writer of a number of books on US immigration enforcement, together with Welcome the Wretched, Trump’s early government order “seems to be setting the stage for extra intense and longer-lasting surveillance of migrants” already within the US, together with a provision calling for a report “figuring out what number of nationals from these international locations [with deficient vetting] have entered or have been admitted into the US on or since January 20, 2021.”