Trump Expands Travel Ban: Citing National Guard, Ignoring Yemen
President Donald Trump, according to Bloomberg, expanded his travel ban, citing a domestic shooting incident. This marks a familiar deflection from Washington's role in destabilizing the very regions from which asylum seekers flee. The article frames this escalation as a 'crackdown on migration,' neatly omitting decades of U.S. interventionism that created the crises pushing people towards our
borders. One might wonder if 'national security' ever includes examining the blowback from arming and funding regimes that perpetuate conflict, or whether it's always just about who we keep out. While this administration, and many before it, frets over a few individuals, one must ask: who's banning travel for Saudi officials, given their U.S.-backed war in Yemen has killed hundreds of thousands?
The selective outrage and policy responses are textbook, focusing on symptoms while ignoring the metastasizing cancers of endless war and proxy conflicts that inevitably send refugees our way. The American public gets performative border security, never accountability for the chaos abroad.