The Global War on Tourism

President Donald Trump's new travel ban is unlikely to keep out terrorists, but it is scaring away tourists and will cost American jobs.

On Monday, President Donald Trump unveiled a revised “travel ban” blocking visitors from six Muslim-majority nations. Just like Trump’s original travel ban issued in January, this new ban is cruelly arbitrary in its design and discriminatory in its intent. Rather than keeping out terrorists, this policy targets nations whose citizens have collectively been responsible for zero deadly terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

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