President Trump has defended his executive order temporarily banning refugees and nearly all citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries but according to the AP, “Trump [has] misstated the facts multiple times.”
AP breaks down fact and fiction for you including Trump’s statement comparing the ban to what Obama did in 2011 (claiming that Obama banned visas for Iraq refugees for six months). Here’s THE FACT according to AP:
“That’s not exactly what happened. According to State Department data, 9,388 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States during the 2011 budget year. The data also show that Iraqi refugees were admitted every month during the 2011 calendar year. The Obama administration did slow processing for Iraqi nationals seeking refuge in the U.S. under the government’s Special Immigrant Visa program for translators and interpreters who worked with American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. That happened after two Iraqi nationals were arrested on terrorism-related charges. But that year, 618 Iraqis were allowed to enter the U.S. with that special visa. Government data show that during the 2011 budget year, more than 7,800 Iraqis were allowed into the United States on non-immigrant visas, including tourists.”
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