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- Jan 2017
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Numerous foreign-born individuals have been convicted or implicated in terrorism-related crimes since September 11, 2001, including foreign nationals who entered the United States after receiving visitor, student, or employment visas, or who entered through the United States refugee resettlement program.
The failure to use statistics here is noteworthy. I found this in the FBI's archives.
Here is that source: https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/the-terrorist-threat-confronting-the-united-states
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Perhaps in no instance was that more apparent than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when State Department policy prevented consular officers from properly scrutinizing the visa applications of several of the 19 foreign nationals who went on to murder nearly 3,000 Americans.
Can we fact check this claim? He seems to have found a convenient scapegoat for 9/11 even while conservative hawks have opposed any Muslim ban.
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The executive order also bans entry of those fleeing from war-torn Syria indefinitely.
Media outlets are asking why some Muslim countries were not subject to the ban, hypothesizing that Trump's business interests explain the criteria
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