02/01/17 – Alex Nowrasteh on whether Trump’s temporary ban of immigrants from certain countries really helps US national security – The Scott Horton Show

by | Feb 1, 2017 | Interviews

Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, discusses his guide to Trump’s executive order limiting migration for people from a list of countries supposedly at risk of exporting terrorists to the US; the overly-broad definition of “terrorism-related crimes” used by Jeff Sessions and others to justify the visa ban; and how ill-defined executive orders like this create capricious and arbitrary government.

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