Immigrants from six majority Muslim countries (Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Chad, and Somalia) as well as Venezuela and North Korea have been banned from entry to the United States under the Trump Administration's new travel ban. Legal challenges are currently being heard by a federal appeals court. However, the most striking thing about the new ban is that high courts approved the ban without any reasoning. The Supreme Court also requested that lower courts lift their previous decisions preventing enforcement of the ban.
This reminds me of President Arthur's Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. For 61 years, Chinese immigrants were banned from entry to the United States mainly because of racism. While the travel ban is aimed at stopping terrorism and the CEA was about giving more whites jobs, racism was still a factor in the passing of both acts. It is important for us to know about our past and the mistakes that we made so we can recognize when they are about to reoccur.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/04/568415772/supreme-court-oks-trump-travel-ban-pending-lower-court-rulings
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