The Counterrevolution by Bernard E. Harcourt

Author:Bernard E. Harcourt [Harcourt, Bernard E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

While local police forces have been turning protesters and African American residents into insurgents, the federal government has been deliberately creating an active minority consisting of practically all American Muslims.

Only seven days into his presidency, President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily ending travel into the United States by nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The executive order effectively banned many American residents of Muslim religion, living in the United States with a green card or a work or educational visa, from returning home to the states from abroad or from leaving the country since they no longer had permission to reenter. The executive order was written in a broad manner that, on its face, applied to US green card holders as well from any of those seven predominantly Muslim countries. The executive order quickly became known as the “Muslim ban” because Trump, during his campaign, had expressly said he would ban Muslims from entering the United States.

Specifically, the executive order Trump signed on January 27, 2017, Executive Order 13769, banned outright for 90 days the entry into the country of any individual from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—whether permanent residents of the United States, immigrants, or nonimmigrants, such as those on work or educational visas.24 The executive order also had a number of other provisions targeting refugees and Syrians especially. The order imposed a 120-day moratorium on the entire US Refugee Admissions Program. And, proclaiming that “the entry of nationals of Syria as refugees is detrimental to the interests of the United States,” the order also suspended indefinitely their entry into the country. The order also limited the number of refugees who could enter the country in 2017, down from 110,000 to 50,000, proclaiming that “the entry of more than 50,000 refugees in fiscal year 2017 would be detrimental to the interests” of the country.

Trump’s Muslim ban effectively excluded from this country many American residents of Islamic faith who were legal residents in the United States and had lived here for years, but were traveling abroad at the time. It also detained and prevented many American Muslim residents from traveling outside the country since they could no longer reenter the states. It simultaneously created and targeted a supposed “active minority” of dangerous American residents. Dr. Amer Al Homssi, for instance, a young Syrian doctor on a residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago who had traveled to the United Arab Emirates to get married, saw his J-1 visa revoked and cancelled at the border and was excluded on January 29, 2017, from returning home to the United States.25 Many others suffered the same plight, with more than 900 persons denied boarding, more than 200 denied entry once they landed, and, eventually, around 1,600 US green-card holders being granted waivers in the days immediately following the executive order.26

Trump had made very clear his intent: to ban and exclude Muslims from the United States. On December 7, 2015, at a very early time in his campaign,

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