We've gone through this before, but let's go through it again: Donald Trump's stupidly written executive order will not make America safer. And his administration’s stated excuses for the ban are, to use the preferred legal term, hot garbage.
President Trump first pitched a ban on Muslims more than a year ago, proposing it in the wake of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., in December 2015. He revived the idea after the Orlando club massacre last summer. And when Trump announced Friday that he was suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, his order mentioned the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks three times.
No one involved in those attacks was born in the countries Trump’s order included. [..] The list of countries the ban affects also did not include countries where people behind several other attacks in recent years — along with high-profile plots that were not carried out — were born.
The ban excludes nations in which Trump has business interests. The ban is being celebrated by terrorist groups as "proof" of American hatred toward Muslims and, therefore, a recruiting tool. Dozens of American diplomats and other experts have already spoken out against the ban.
Trump's team can point to no non-fabricated evidence of a meaningful security threat from refugees. The refugees are already vetted; it already takes more screening to be admitted to this country than it takes to be admitted to Donald Trump's own national security team. It is the result of an explicitly bigoted campaign promise which, according to Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani, was hand-crafted as "legal" wrapper for Trump's desired "Muslim ban."
Trump's team has crafted an order that will harm America in order to prop up their own white nationalist-inspired ideals. They're lying about the justifications for the order now because, as Giuliani rather bluntly stated, the order was crafted as a religious ban first—with the justifications tacked on afterward.