‘Soft Coup’: What’s Really Behind Outrage Over So-Called ‘Muslim Ban’
SputnikNews.com
01.02.2017
There is something fishy about the recent wave of outrage toward Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, analysts say. They argue that the measure could hardly be called a “Muslim ban.” It looks strange that Barack Obama’s extensive bombing of seven Muslim-majority nations in 2016 failed to provoke similar concerns among US media pundits.
Donald Trump’s executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States” has generated a firestorm of criticism from Democrats and media pundits. However, analysts believe that there is more to the ongoing protests than meets the eye.
“The Executive Order has been called many things… I have read claims that it is illegal and even unconstitutional and that it provides grounds for Donald Trump’s impeachment,” Alexander Mercouris, a London-based writer on international affairs and regular contributor to Sputnik, writes in his latest op-ed for TheDuran.com.
“Having read this document through, I am at something of a loss to understand the controversy around it. As someone who has experience of entry and refugee law, none of the things in the Executive Order seem too exceptional or unusual,” the analyst pointed out.
Mercouris drew attention to the fact that it is “by no means unheard or even unusual” for countries to tighten up their visa entry rules of to bar entries from particular states or conflict zones.
He recalled that ex-president Barack Obama banned refugee admissions from Iraq for six months in 2011 citing security concerns.
“As for the 50,000 person cap on refugees in the 2017 fiscal year, as I understand it, it is standard US practice to impose such a cap,” Mercouris noted.
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