ICE’s Extreme Vetting Initiative will be Inaccurate and Biased — and Civil Rights Groups are Speaking Out
ICE’s Extreme Vetting Initiative will be Inaccurate and Biased — and Civil Rights Groups are Speaking Out
What does it mean to be a “positively contributing member of society” who “makes contributions to the national interest? Under a little-noticed provision in President Trump’s January 2017 executive order known as the Muslim ban, every traveler to the United States would be screened against these criteria. If you’re baffled by this standard, so are experts, as no law defines what it means to contribute to our society and national interest.