Week 4 Blog Post

Week 4 Blog post
My article
In this article it talks about the idea of removing Iraq from the Trump administration's list of banned countries. The reason for this being that Iraq has been a main role in the fight against ISIS. The article states, "Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly also supported the move, but it remains unclear whether the White House has made a final decision." It says the new executive order is expected to be released later this week and that legal permanent residents (green card holders) are excluded from any travel ban, and those with validly issued visas will also be exempt from the ban.

This relates to my AP Government class with regards of Public policy and that Trumps administration is also listening and reacting to public opinion. Trumps executive order is a great example of public policy. In class we have talked about how public opinion can affect public policy but also that public policy can steer away from public opinion.

I think that terrorism is a very important issue in our society but we need a different way to solve it. By banning all of the people from those middle east countries we are taking away their chance of freedom and safety. America was a country built by immigrants and even though Trump is trying to protect our freedom I don't think that its fair for him to take theirs. Without immigration America wouldn't be as diverse and sophisticated as we are today. I think we need to put more money and time into the background screenings of people traveling to the US from those countries instead of just banning them all for being of the same religion as terrorists.