Fritz Lodge, thecipherbrief.com
Image from, with caption: President Donald Trump's executive order would ban travel from Yemen, Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria and Sudan. Iraq was removed from the revised order.
Excerpt:
The revised ban on travel and immigration from six Muslim-majority countries ordered by President Donald Trump on March 6 now sits before the Supreme Court, waiting for a final decision on its legality. ...
The question now is, will these and other restrictions protect Americans from terrorist acts, and what sort of backlash will these extra security measures elicit from the countries targeted? ...
[T]he effect of what is increasingly seen as a ban against Muslim travel to the U.S. could have a chilling effect on U.S. public diplomacy and reduce grassroots economic ties between the U.S. and countries targeted by the new restrictions. There are signs that this is already beginning to happen. Visa requests granted to almost 50 Muslim-majority countries have declined by roughly 20 percent since Trump took office, and according to tracking data from Foursquare – a company that tracks international foot traffic through its app on millions of smartphones – total visits to the U.S. have decreased by as much as 16 percent since President Trump took office. ...
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