Rachael Maddow lays out the specifics of the case;
The problem begins with the fact that there doesn't seem to be any good reason for Chad to have been included on Trump’s latest version of his travel ban. Chad happens to have one of the most effective counter-terrorist forces in the area and have been taking on Boka Harum and other ISIS affiliates for years in many of their neighboring countries, however when Trump added them to his ban they decided to pull their troop out of Niger who were supporting our efforts there against ISIL.
“Several terrorist groups are active in Chad,” Maddow cited the administration’s reasoning. “If that’s the reason you end up on the travel ban list, why wouldn’t you put Mali or Niger or even Iraq and Afghanistan?”
A former State Department official who worked on that region went even further, telling the New York Times that putting Chad on that list could truly put Americans in harm’s way.
Chad then began to withdraw their troops from the fight against Boko Haram in Niger. In fact, Chad’s troops were gone a week after Trump added Chad to the ban list. According to Reuters, once the soldiers left, Boko Haram moved back in and people began to flee for their lives again. Shortly after the “battle-hardened” Chad fighters left, four American soldiers were attacked and killed in an ambush by ISIS extremists in Niger. Chad announced it began pulling its troops out two weeks ago on Oct. 13, which Maddow said would put their timeline for withdrawal at the end of September.
“Which would be the Friday after the Trump administration made this decision to insult and harm our closest military ally in that region, against ISIS and Boko Haram where ISIS has been trying to establish another caliphate,” Maddow said. “But those Chadian troops were really doing something in Niger. They were protecting those villages in that whole region from ISIS militant groups being able to operate freely and be able to take more territory from there once again. And pulling those troops out had an immediate effect in emboldening those ISIS attacks.”
According to the Guardian Trump’s state department had recently requested that every nation in the world provide a freshly printed copy of their passports in order to ensure they couldn’t be counterfeit, however Chad had run out of the special paper they use for their passports and couldn’t produce a new one before the deadline expired. They asked if they could provide one that was recently printed previously, but the Trump admin refused.
So basically Trump’s ridiculous obsession with blocking those dirty foreigners from being able to enter the U.S. without any justified reason and his nitpicky deadline issue has led to some of our strongest allies in the region pulling back and our adversaries surging forward to kill four of our Troops in an area that had been perfectly safe just days before.
No wonder he didn’t want to answer a question about it.