Many different things have happened since the last time I discussed Trump’s executive order on the travel ban. After the 9^th circuit court halted the executive order, President Trump took it upon himself and wrote up a revised a new executive order on travel ban this time in hopes of avoiding the anger and protests that have been sweeping across the nation after his first executive order. Even though Donald Trump did the things in this new order to appease the left, his new order was still blocked by a Judge from Hawaii. This has been a wild ride and it has show up two competing narratives by the people in the media.

An article from CNN titled “Trump’s new travel ban blocked: What you need to know” show us some perspective on this issue. CNN would tent to be more liberal media source and sometimes gets into beef with President Trump. However, this article tends to keep it in the middle and delivers us some reasons as to why the executive order was blocked citing that it was the intent of the Trump administration wanting to ban all Muslims from entering our country that violated the Constitution’s establishment clause. They also point back to the early campaign when Donald Trump called for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering our country until the could figure out what was going on. They even point out to what Trump was saying after he found out about the new ban. Trump called the decision as an “unprecedented judicial overreach” and said that he move made our country look weak. He also vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court if needed.  

We get another side of the spectrum from Breitbart.com, who composed an article titled “Dershowitz: Courts Psychoanalyzing Trump – If Obama Issued Travel Ban, It Would Be Constitutional,” based on an interview on Fox New Channel “Fox & Friends.” In the interview we have a Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz who said that if it were Obama who issued the travel ban it would be considered Constitutional. The article is written completely based of what this Alan Dershowitz said during his interview and basically highlight the important things he said during the interview. Fox News/Breitbart strategy is to have a distinguished person come on and tell you want they think and why they are right based off their credentials. Breitbart is using a different way of telling the news because this article is more right versus wrong than the CNN article which basically just lets everyone know what is going on instead.

            Many things have changed since last Travel ban. The fact that Trump revised the original executive order and it still got blocked shows that this order is going to be hard to pass. President Trump plans on appealing this court order and this will most likely end up in the Supreme Court. Things will be different this time in the Supreme Court now that Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was just sworn in. Now there is a conservative majority in the Supreme Court and this maybe enough for the President to finally get what he wants in his travel ban executive order. We will just have to wait and see.  

Breitbart Article:

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/18/dershowitz-courts-psychoanalyzing-trump-if-obama-issued-travel-ban-it-would-be-constitutional/

CNN Article:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/politics/trump-travel-ban-order-explainer/

With the recent election of Donald J. Trump there has been a lot of media buzz on both sides. The left and right have been arguing about his Presidency ever since his inauguration on January 20^th 2017. Whether they argue about his crowd sizes or his cabinet picks they can’t seem to find any common ground on his Presidency. The biggest fight between these side have been over his recent executive order, where Donald Trump banned people coming in from seven different Muslim dominated countries. The countries included Syria, Iran, Sudan, Lybia, Somalia, Yemen, and Iraq. This was no permanent ban on immigration from these countries, this executive order only halted immigration from these countries for approximately 120 days.

 Many leftists in the media claimed that this executive order was un-American, that you can’t ban a group of people coming into the country base off their religious beliefs. They supported the protests against this executive order, claiming they were combatting fascism. Chuck Schumer the senate minority leader even mustered up some tears in his recent speech claiming “This executive order was mean spirited and un-American.” Even Hillary Clinton managed to come out hiding after her stunning defeat to tweet “I stand with thee people gathered across the country tonight defending our values & our Constitution. This is not who we are.” However most left wingers got their way recently when a federal judge from Seattle halted his executive order. Even a federal appeals panel maintained the halt on the executive order. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9^th Circuit ruled 3-0 against Trump on his executive Order. Many liberals claiming victory against tyranny and celebrated against fascism.

The right claims to support this executive order was quite plain and simple. Their claim was that this isn’t a Muslim ban. The top five countries in the world with the largest Muslim population are Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, none of the people coming into the United States from these countries are banned from entering because this isn’t a Muslim ban. Media members claimed that this is ultimately a ban based on terror linked countries that was created by the Obama Administration. The right claims that this isn’t the first time that something like this has happened and the media is blowing it out of proportion. There were no protests when Obama banned Iraq refugees for six months in 2011 over terrorism fears. Obama even banned immigrants six times from most Muslim countries and the left was completely silent. I believe that most leftist have a problem with the fact that they think it’s a Muslim ban. However, people don’t understand how the federal judges ruling goes completely against the law. Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality act of 1952 states that “Whenever the President finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem appropriate.” Even if it were a Muslim ban it wouldn’t matter the executive order was completely legal and the President of the United States has the right to confirm or deny the right to enter the country. Donald Trump even stated that he plans to write a new executive order in the near future banning people entering the united states from the same countries as before. This time I don’t think we should freak out because it’s not a Muslim ban and we should support the President’s legal right to stop people from entering the country who may cause us harm.