The map below highlights the countries impacted by U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order, the neighbouring Muslim-majority nations that were not included, along with Trump’s business interests in that region.
On January 27, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that puts a halt to refugees entering America for 120 days. It also indefinitely bars Syrian refugees from entry, and severely restricts immigration from seven countries on any visa category. The seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen — are majority Muslim.
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“We don't want them here. We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas,” Trump said, speaking at a ceremonial swearing-in of Defence Secretary James Mattis at the Pentagon.
“We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and love deeply our people. We will never forget the lessons of 9/11 nor the heroes who lost at the Pentagon.”
Of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks, 15 were from Saudi Arabia, two were from the united Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt, and one was from Lebanon. Yet none of these countries were listed in the executive order. Two other neighbouring Muslim-majority countries in that region that were not on the list: Azerbaijan and Turkey. Other than Lebanon, the president has business interests in all these nations.
