Rhetoric Analysis

The Travel Ban marks a major turning point in the policies on immigration in the United States. Due to increased terrorist attacks and illegal immigrant numbers rising, it is believed that temporarily banning immigrants from particular countries is key to ensuring safety within the United States. Though many have expressed their concern towards the ban because of its similarity to previous discriminatory and unconstitutional acts. The ban has even been referred to as the “Muslim Ban”.

The First Amendment was created in a way, to ensure that all those who seek freedom, in speech, press, religion, and assembling can do so. However, recently freedom of religion has not been fully secured. For instance, there has been bans against immigrants sorely because of their religion stereotype. Something that is contradictory to the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...". The First Amendment should be able to encourage each and every religious freedom, because people no longer feel safe about expressing their religion as the United States government have shown favoritism towards other certain religions. And since numbers are rising in certain religions, diversity should be accepted and shown throughout the U.S. and by the government.

On 27 January President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee admissions and temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries. This action is called “Travel Ban.” What does it do? It brings in a suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days. There is also an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees. And anyone arriving from seven Muslim-majority countries - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, also faces a 90-day visa suspension. Some visa categories, such as diplomats and the UN, are not included in the suspension. The order also introduces a cap of 50,000 refugees to be accepted in 2017, against a limit of 110,000 set by former President Barack Obama Priority will be given to religious

Back in 2015, Republican Party nominee Trump made his opinion known about his proposals to temporarily ban immigration in the United States. In a press release statement, Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." I see what Trump reasoning is and I think it could be reasonable, but I believe it is still unconstitutional. The Seattle federal judge that suspended Trump’s order, Gordon, states that “the court concludes that the government’s reasons, as provided in the [executive order], are facially legitimate are bona fide but unconstitutional.” I am somewhat in agreement about the ban being reasonable, but you can not say that people from a religion are considered “terrorist” or associate a religion with “terrorist” or terrorism, which Trump is doing. However, although he has a good reasoning it is not enough, because a good purpose doesn’t make anything

On January 27 Donald Trump signed an executive order on immigration. This order blocked many refugees from coming into the United States. The order also blocks citizens from Muslim countries such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the U.S. Donald Trump goal is to protect the U.S through the immigration ban. He saids that with the immigration ban ,the government will be able to review the refugee approval process and add more security measures.

President Trump recently signed an executive order that restricts entry from seven Muslim majority countries into the United States. Trump’s immigration policy bans the entry of refugees into the United States for 120 days and heightens additional screening to make sure that they do not pose a threat to the security of the U.S. The order also indefinitely restricts the entrance of Syrian refugees and restricts travelers that come from seven predominantly Muslim countries including Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen entry into the United States for 90 days (Shear, Michael). This order would affect over 20,000 refugees, thousands of students nationwide, and hundreds

While the controversy regarding Trump’s travel ban, which restricts immigrants from seven (now six) predominantly Muslim countries that are threats for terrorism from entering the United States for three months, has been split down the middle, the debate of how lawmakers should ensure that the statement “The United States has the world’s most generous immigration system” (“Fact Sheet” 6 March) remain true while still ensuring the safety of U.S. citizens has sparked. Because of the fact that Trump is making a vast assumption based on the stereotypes of seven individual countries to make his decision without considering those within these countries who are not actual threats to our safety, one can see that his plan simply will not work. Instead, American lawmakers can find a balance between maintaining an open, welcoming society and protecting U.S. citizens by continuing to legislate the same immigration laws that have been in place prior to Trump’s travel ban during Obama’s presidency, which have proven

In March of 2016, President Trump placed a temporary ban on six Muslim countries. With the influx of middle easterners fleeing the middle east due to their war-torn countries President Trump has changed the number of refugees the country receives. President’s Trump focus is to fully understand who is attempting to come into the United States and ensure they are who they say they are. By conduct extensive background checks will give a better a understand on who is not being truthful, weeding out the suspected illegals who would cause harm in America. “Attorney General Jeff Sessions also singled out the refugee program as an issue

There are no social injustices that go without affecting the public, and Executive Order 13769 has impacted many people not only in our nation, but also in the periphery, in many different countries around the world. The victims of this social injustice are primarily those from the seven countries, especially Muslims, but anyone who has put their faith in American idealism will experience the fallout from this destruction of our constitutional values. When it comes to accepting refugees now, the White House is essentially prioritizing Christians over Muslims from the Middle East. In fact, in an interview with the Christian broadcasting network a few days after the immigration ban was instated, Donald Trump claimed he would favor Christian refugees as an exception to the executive order (Yulas). People with dual citizenship are being affected now as well by not being able to travel freely outside the country without worry they may not be allowed to return. A specific victim of this injustice, Thon Maker, a rookie on the Milwaukee Bucks, is a native of Sudan, one of the seven countries that Trump has banned for travel (Reports). The National Basketball Association is now concerned with Maker’s ability to travel with his team to Toronto for future games (Reports). The immigration limitation not only affects people living in the seven countries, but also those who care about upholding our values and human rights

As I was reading through random articles about this issue, I found one article titled ‘Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees — Separating Fact from Hysteria.’ And I wanted to refute this article. Indeed, the writer was claiming that first, given the terrible recent track record of completed and attempted terror attacks by Muslim immigrants, it’s clear that our current approach is inadequate to control the threat. Second, green-card holders have been through round after round of vetting and security checks. Third, While the Syrian Civil War was raging, ISIS was rising, and refugees were swamping Syria’s neighbors and surging into Europe, the Obama administration let in a lot less refugees than he claimed to. Lastly, once refugee admissions

I believe the complete ban on refugee admissions is a failure to meet America’s humanitarian obligations. The policy violates the moral principle that it is wrong to discriminate based on religion. The seven countries whose citizens are not permitted entry are all overwhelmingly Muslim and that is no coincidence. Trump himself has implicitly acknowledged that it is wrong to discriminate based on religion by denying that he is doing so. However, this recalls the old saying that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. In this case, the hypocrisy is so blatant, given Trump’s past and present statements about Islam. This policy is clearly and deliberately aimed at restricting the entry of Muslims and that under no circumstances can be dismissed as a moral act.

The travel ban is an executive order which was put into place by President Donald Trump’s administration on January 27th, 2017. The order was put into place for our national security to “protect the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.” This measure banned travel into the U.S. for 90 days from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. This obviously sparked an outcry from social media, which caused a divide among Americans. With a show of hands, how many of you think that the travel ban is actually a ban on Muslim refugees and that it is racist. Recent polls show that 57% of Americans favor the temporary ban while 33% are opposed to it, and 10% are still undecided. Racism, fascism, and Islamophobia; these words have all taunted supporters of President Trump and the travel ban. The one thing people don’t realize is that the travel ban isn’t banning Muslims from America. Who in the room can name the top 5 countries with the most Muslims. They are Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. Not one of these countries are listed in the ban. This ban is only for only ninety days, and is aimed at countries who have sent a large contingency of terrorists to the U.S. The countries selected have active terrorist training camps, and Trump is not the individual who selected the countries on the list. These countries are unstable, with no reliable vetting procedures. We shouldn’t admit people until they can meet our security screening standards.

The Nationality Act states, “Whenever the President finds that entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate” (How opponents may challenge Trump). It’s no secret that President Trump is planning on issuing a ‘Travel Ban’, or as an individual may have heard it, ‘Muslim Ban’, legally. This bans the refugees from certain countries - Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia - from entering the United States for four months. Mr. Trump claims to ban these countries to protect the United States from terror attacks. All of the countries listed above have a muslim majority, but have no direct ties to terrorist attacks in the United States. These countries, however, were identified as “countries of concern” during Obama’s administration and had limitations on entering the United States (Trump signs executive order). It is also no secret there is a stereotype in place of people of the Muslim religion being terrorists.

Immigration has been a piece of our nation ever since the Pilgrims first made their way across the Atlantic in the 1600’s. America has been the melting pot of cultures, ideas, and religions for quite some time now. We cherished and embraced our nation’s diversity, but what is happening now? (Rhetorical Question) Ever since September 11th, 2001, things have changed in the US. People’s minds have been penetrated with hatred for Muslims because of the terrorist attacks we all see. This has brought up many new, innovative security regulations to try to protect our nation. Although many of these laws have proven themselves to be beneficial, what President Trump is proposing for his new immigration order is unacceptable. The order will set a 90-day ban on all immigrants coming from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Then it will significantly lower the number of refugees our nation accepts. The immigration order proposed by Trump should not be passed because it is unconstitutional, shows religious discrimination and hatred towards Muslims, and it violates various international and federal policies.

Be it resolved that the United States fully repeals the travel ban due to the discriminatory effects it has on some people. The travel ban is a terrible executive order that was put into place by President Trump on january 27th of 2017. The travel ban was put into place to protect the United States by not allowing any citizen from seven muslim countries to enter. These seven countries are; Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. These countries were targeted due to supposed risks of these countries harboring extremists groups such as Isis or Al-qaeda. According to the article “Trump's executive order: Who does travel ban affect?,” by BBC News, “ The travel ban suspensions the US refugee program for 120 days, places and indefinite ban on Syrian refugees and suspends all visas of incoming immigrants of the seven banned countries” (BBC News). The seven countries are heavily muslim, however most of the people in these countries are no threat to the United States in any way. Why is the United States completely discriminating the islamic religion when we are founded on the basis of religious freedom. Not everyone who is muslim is a terrorists so why are we punishing a lot of good people for the actions of very few. Most of the terrorist attacks that have happened since 9/11 have been carried out by a U.S citizen, so are we going to start deporting all muslim U.S citizens? The islamic religion is not the problem it's the radicalistic idea that some people