On September 24, 2017, following a study by DHS and the State Department of nearly 200 countries, President Trump issued Proclamation 9645, imposing travel restrictions on persons from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia, countries that have been found to harbor or sponsor terrorists. Later, Eritrea, Nigeria, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, and Tanzania were added, and it inaccurately became known as the “Muslim ban.” Though contested in the courts, the ban was eventually declared constitutional by the Supreme Court.
In the executive-order-happy Day One of his tenure, Joe Biden revoked Proclamation 9645.
This week, on Wednesday, April 21, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill called the “No Ban Act,” which would limit a future president’s authority to issue travel bans without first consulting Congress. It would also open the process up to litigation by foreign nationals in the U.S. who claim they would be harmed by any such ban.
Breitbart News notes that this action comes a few weeks after news that two illegal aliens from Yemen listed on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and No-Fly List had been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. Those incidents, as we remarked at the time, were initially reported in a CBP press release, which, curiously, was then almost immediately removed.
These events prompted Dan Stein of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) to issue in a statement:
Just a week or so after we learned that terrorists are exploiting the Biden border crisis, the House now wants to make it easier for them to waltz in the front door by stripping presidents, current and future, of the authority to bar entry to foreign nationals based on legitimate security concerns.
The No Ban bill was supported by all House Democrats and one Republican, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).
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