Travel ban: Trump reprises one of the worst things he did in his first term.

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Donald Trump won the presidency in part on promises to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records. But his earliest executive orders—trying to undo birthright citizenship, suspending critical refugee programs—made clear he wants to attack legal immigrants, too. In our new series, Who Gets to Be American This Week? , we’ll track the Trump administration’s attempts to exclude an ever-growing number of people from the American experiment.

One of President Donald Trump’s defining moments during his first term was a travel ban against Muslim-majority countries. Now in his second term he’s reprised that policy, introducing a new travel ban on Wedne