--- title: Travel Ban: Trump Muslim Order Inhumane, More Frightening description: The new executive order banning refugees from now six majority-Muslim nations in the name of counterterrorism is worse than its predecessor canonical: https://time.com/4692814/trump-travel-ban-muslims/ author: Naureen Shah article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-06T22:42:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:35.141Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 Is as Inhumane — and More Frightening og:description: 'The Trump Administration is determined to pursue its anti-Muslim, extremist agenda' og:url: https://time.com/4692814/trump-travel-ban-muslims/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61d0208b1517ba3/6988bd3d8e0601ead9469748/trump-travel-ban2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: trump-travel-ban og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 Is as Inhumane — and More Frightening twitter:description: 'The Trump Administration is determined to pursue its anti-Muslim, extremist agenda' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61d0208b1517ba3/6988bd3d8e0601ead9469748/trump-travel-ban2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 Is Just as Inhumane — and Even More Frightening > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump's revised travel ban will temporarily halt entry to the United States for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas_ by [Naureen Shah](https://time.com/author/naureen-shah/) ## Naureen Shah Mar 6, 2017 10:42 PM UTC  For over 8 hours on Jan. 28, 2017, thousands flooded into Terminal 4 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, at times shutting down the hub while protesting Donald Trump's executive order banning Muslims from certain countries from traveling to the U.S. Around 8 p.m. that evening, the federal court for the Eastern District of New York issued an emergency stay halting the ban. For over 8 hours on Jan. 28, 2017, thousands flooded into Terminal 4 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, at times shutting down the hub while protesting Donald Trump's executive order banning Muslims from certain countries from traveling to the U.S. Around 8 p.m. that evening, the federal court for the Eastern District of New York issued an emergency stay halting the ban. Michael Nigro—Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images by [Naureen Shah](https://time.com/author/naureen-shah/) ## Naureen Shah Mar 6, 2017 10:42 PM UTC The Trump Administration’s new [Muslim ban](http://time.com/4691806/president-trump-new-travel-ban/) is like a badly graded term paper. The first version was a mess. The revision is longer and better presented. But the thesis is still the same: Enshrine a cruel indifference to refugees and [anti-Muslim](http://time.com/4692116/donald-trump-travel-ban-internet-reaction/) prejudice into law and call it [counterterrorism](http://time.com/4658366/donald-trump-terrorism-racism/). The Administration is at once doubling down on the ban and attempting to overhaul its aesthetics. We are supposed to believe that rather than President Donald Trump’s fear-mongering campaign promise of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” the ban has turned into a reasonable, limited and temporary security measure. That’s the narrative of Trump’s Cabinet officials, who went on a media offensive today while the President himself was benched. He signed the order behind closed doors. But make no mistake, this ban is still a ban. It’s imperative that Congress see through the wordsmithing and call the second executive order out for what it is: Inhumane, irrational and deeply harmful to the country. Although much is being made of the “scaled back” ban, that’s a misnomer. This second ban still decimates the country’s refugee admissions program, shutting it down for four months and leaving thousands of refugees stranded. Refugees who were poised to come to the U.S. after spending years going through intensive vetting — who sold their few belongings, said goodbye and set their sights on a better future — will be left with no option but to return to perilous situations, including in refugees camps and war zones. During the so-called “pause” on the refugee program, refugees already in the vetting process will see their background checks expire. At best, they will have to redo a yearslong process. This is like leaving people in a burning building, telling them to “hold on a second” and hoping the fire will not consume them. Another supposed selling point of the revised travel ban is that it drops Iraq from the list of banned countries. That’s a nod to concerns about alienating the Iraqi government and deserting Iraqis who served with U.S. forces. But many Iraqis who supported the U.S. — and who face death threats and violence because of it — will still be barred from coming here. Nearly a decade ago, Congress passed a law to give them direct access to the refugee admissions program. But the executive order thwarts that by suspending the refugee program altogether. The new Muslim ban does exempt lawful permanent residents and current visa holders. But that won’t prevent significant damage to the country’s universities, which count on international students — who reap [$32.8 billion](http://www.nafsa.org/Policy%5Fand%5FAdvocacy/Policy%5FResources/Policy%5FTrends%5Fand%5FData/NAFSA%5FInternational%5FStudent%5FEconomic%5FValue%5FTool/) for the U.S. economy. Nor will it undo the damage to the U.S. tourism industry, which will still be stigmatized by the order. No ones wants to plan a vacation to Disney World, after all, if they fear their country could be added to the ban list next. There is an even more serious impact for American Muslims, who face a volatile climate of harassment, discrimination and even violence directed against them. By reasserting bigotry as a basis for “protecting us from terrorism,” the executive order may embolden more hate-based attacks. Instead of increasing security, this order will make all of us less safe — especially those of us who are perceived as “looking foreign.” In some ways, the second ban is worse than its predecessor. It signals that the Trump Administration is determined to pursue its anti-Muslim, extremist agenda and will not be hindered by courts — nor by the showing of public concern which followed the first ban. That remarkable cultural moment — symbolized by the immediate airport protests and sustained by the solidarity of faith groups, civil rights figures and celebrities who’ve spoken out repeatedly over the last month — seems to have gone unheeded by the Trump Administration. Nothing could be more frightening than this: An Administration that is so insulated from voices of moderation that it believes it can merely tinker with a policy that sparked outrage and somehow defuse it. This is a government unmoored from reality. It is more attached to a warped agenda of anti-Muslim fear-mongering than to the analysis of veteran national security leaders, many of whom told a court that the prior order “undermines the [national security](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-john-kerry.html) of the United States.” This second Muslim ban is chilling not just for the thousands of people directly impacted, but for the country. If Trump’s second order survives, it will be because the original order set the bar so low that anything else — including this shallow revision — appears restrained. Graded on a curve, Trump’s policies will pass muster. 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