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This is No Way to Protect Our National Security

| Jan. 29, 2017

There is nothing about President Donald J. Trump's executive order on refugees that makes us safer or more secure. As my CNN colleague Peter Bergen reminds us: "All the lethal acts of jihadist terrorism in the States since 9/11 have been carried out by American citizens or legal residents, and none of them have been the work of Syrian refugees."

By favoring Christians in Muslim majority countries, we have put a religious test on America's immigration policy. It is a Muslim ban; no matter how its supporters spin it....

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Juliette Kayyem

  • Member of the Board, Belfer Center
  • Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Faculty Director, Homeland Security Project
  • Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
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