The Trump administration is not just trying to limit illegal immigration, but is aggressively trying to clamp down on asylum seekers and legal immigration. There are exceptions, such as its welcoming of white South African farmers as refugees , but it’s a consistent theme. Now—in a policy that expands on one of his first-term hallmarks—the president announced a travel ban for citizens of 12 countries and severe restrictions on those from seven others.

The president used as an excuse the horrific recent attack in Boulder, Colorado, whereby an Egyptian citizen who had overstayed his visa firebombed people demonstrating for the release of Israeli hostages. But as the Associated Press reported , Egypt was not on the list of banned or restricted countries. The president isn’t wrong that

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