Travel Ban Infographic

April 2020

Will banning immigrants improve United States' national security?

Michaela Tinana

Trump's Travel Ban Expansion

President Donald Trump has recently expanded his travel ban to six new countries. The Trump administration has argued that this was a required action to improve national security and legal immigration. Many were outraged by the initial ban and the expansion claiming that it is targeted toward Muslim and African immigrants, and that it is an act of xenophobia.

So, the question becomes :

Will banning immigrants truly improve the US national security?

Countries included in travel ban:

Recent addition : Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania

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Percentage of U.S. Immigrant Groups out of all U.S. Immigrants as of 2018

Reasons Why Immigrants Come to the U.S.

Largest U.S. Immigrant Groups by country as of 2018

U.S. Immigrant Groups included in the Ban Expansion by country as of 2018

Mexico

China

India

Philippines

25%

6.4%

5.9%

4.5%

Nigeria

Myanmar

Sudan

Eritrea

0.8%

0.3%

0.1%

WORK
People migrate with the knowledge or hope that more opportunities are available in their particular field, or from previous offerings

TO BE WITH FAMILY
Family reunification or marriage for those who have been separated

EDUCATION
Some students choose to study abroad for experience, or to seek out better educational opportunities not provided in their own countries

TO SEEK SUPERIOR HEALTHCARE
Lots of countries have limited healthcare, and many immigrants have serious health problem

TO ESCAPE PERSECUTION

Refugees and asylum seekers often escape due to persecution based on race,religion,nationality, and/or membership in a particular social/political group

TO ESCAPE CONFLICT OR VIOLENCE

Many immigrants tend to escape conflicts like war and violence

TO FIND REFUGE DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Factors caused by climate change such as natural disasters, erosion, etc. are real threats that displace people

TO ESCAPE POVERTY
The US provides lots of opportunities for those, especially children who live in deep poverty in other countries

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Immigration and Crime

The Trump administration’s first year of immigration policy has relied on claims that immigrants bring crime into America. Immigrant populations in the United States have been growing fast for decades now.

In general, data suggests either that immigration has the effect of reducing average crime, or that there is simply no relationship between the two, and that areas where both grew were instances of coincidence, not cause and effect.

Socially disadvantaged neighborhoods may, however, make immigrant groups more susceptible to crime victimization when social support networks do not exist or are lacking

Terrorism Rates

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References

"The annual chance of being murdered by a foreign‐born terrorist from those six countries on US soil is about 1 in 1.9 billion per year"

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2. Flagg, A. (2018, March 30). The Myth of the Criminal. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/30/upshot/crime-immigration-myth.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytupshot

3. Migration Policy Institute. (n.d.) U.S. Immigration Trends.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/us-immigration-trends#Refugees

4. New America. (March 31, 2020). Citizenship or immigration status of terrorists in the United

States from September 11, 2001 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 07, 2020, from https://www-statista-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/statistics/667914/residency-status-of-terrorists-in-the-us-since-911/

5. Nunez, C., Sanchez, E., & Sepehr, J. (2014m December 4). Why people migrate: 11 surprising reasons. Global Citizen. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/why-people-migrate-11-surprising-reasons/

6. Radford, J. (2019, June 17). Key findings about U.S. immigrants. Pew Research Center.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/

7. Sands, G. (2020, February 22). Trump administration expands travel ban to include new

countries. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/31/politics/trump-administration-travel-ban-six-new-countries/index.html

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