How do you feel about Trump's travel 'ban' on African countries

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On the bench so I had time to write my thoughts:

It's very clearly an aggressive move to hype up his base, especially with the state of the union address around the corner and the election this fall. 

But also, it sounds like there are tangible things around electronic passports and reporting on terrorism and crime to both Interpol and the US that these countries are choosing to opt out of, so from that standpoint the bans make sense. The current law requires a re-evaluation at 180 days and Chad was removed from the prior ban once they enhanced their information sharing and passport control.

A few things are tough to reconcile in that are these the only countries not meeting the standards or were they singled out? And only stopping immigrant visas but allowing other categories seems counter-intuitive since a hypothetical bad actor could just come in on a visitor visa. It would seem like less of a dog whistle around stopping immigrants from certain countries if all visa types had been banned given the safety concerns. But people can still visit and go to school in the US so how does that fit with the safety narrative if that's truly the concern?

Obviously there's an emotional aspect, and it doesn't feel good to see countries with black people get banned, but if you look beyond that this directionally seems reasonable. If actual improvements happen then they can come off the travel ban list. If anything maybe the focus should be on forcing those re-evaluations and getting clarity on assessment criteria / next steps needed, which seem like things already in the works from some of the countries involved.

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