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Facts on Trump’s Immigration Order

"Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles"

By Brooks Jackson, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and Robert Farley
Posted on February 1, 2017 | Updated on February 9, 2017

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How Many Foreign-Born Have Committed Terrorist Acts in U.S.?

The point of the order is to keep would-be foreign terrorists out of the United States. That raises the question of how many foreign-born people have committed such crimes in the U.S. Trump’s executive order directs the secretary of homeland security and the U.S. attorney general to find out.

The order instructs the two departments to collect and make publicly available information about foreign nationals who have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related offenses, or have been removed from the country because of terrorism-related activity.

Others, though, already have compiled some of that information. One of them is Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, who produced a 28-page report last year called “Terrorism and Immigration .. https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa798_2.pdf .”

Nowrasteh’s report identified 154 foreign-born people who were convicted of carrying out or attempting to carry out a terrorist attack in the U.S. over a 40-year period, from 1975 to 2015, most of them on or after Sept. 11, 2001. Forty of the 154 were responsible for 3,024 deaths; 114 of them were not responsible for any deaths.

Only 17 of the 154 foreign-born terrorists were from the seven countries covered by the Trump administration’s temporary travel ban. But none of the 17 was responsible for any deaths — even though the seven countries combined represented almost 40 percent of all refugees accepted into the U.S. in the last 10 years.

As of Jan. 31, a total of 255,708 refugees from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen have been admitted to the U.S. since the start of 2008. Those countries account for almost 40 percent of the 642,593 total refugees who have come to the U.S. in that time period, according to .. https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Refugee-Arrivals-by-Nationality-and-Religion.pdf .. the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center.

“The first sentence of his order states that it is to ‘protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States,'” Nowrasteh wrote in a blog post .. https://www.cato.org/blog/guide-trumps-executive-order-limit-migration-national-security-reasons . “However, the countries that Trump chose to temporarily ban are not serious terrorism risks.”

In all, the report identified 3,432 murders caused by terrorists on U.S. soil in 40 years, including the 3,024 caused by foreign-born terrorists — or 88 percent all terrorism-related deaths.

To put the terrorism-related murders in perspective, there were about 768,000 total murders during the same 40-year period, the report says. As a percentage, terrorism-related deaths represented 0.39 percent of all murders over the 40 years.

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Cato Institute, Sept. 13, 2016: The annual chance of being murdered was 252.9
times as great as dying in an attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist on U.S. soil.
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The vast majority of the murders caused by terrorists occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, when 2,983 people — not counting the 19 hijackers — were killed in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. The 9/11 attacks accounted for 98.6 percent of all people killed in terrorist attacks during the 40 years, the report says.

Trump’s executive order cites the 9/11 attacks three times. But none of the 9/11 hijackers came from any of the seven countries that fall under Trump’s 90-day travel ban. Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia; two were from the United Arab Emirates; one was from Egypt, and one was from Lebanon, according to the CIA .. https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2002/DCI_18_June_testimony_new.pdf .

MUCH more .. http://www.factcheck.org/2017/02/facts-on-trumps-immigration-order/

.. not surprised the facts on this matter are misrepresented by the Washington Examiner in the article JimLur posted here ..

Report: 72 convicted of terrorism from 'Trump 7' mostly Muslim countries
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The anti-immigration Center for Immigration Studies guilty of misrepresentation there is criticized by the CATO Institute in this one ..

JimLur .. Immigrants Don't Drain Welfare. They Fund It.
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