Donald Trump's ban will have lasting and damaging impacts on the world's refugees
- Written by Phil Orchard, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations; Research Director at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, The University of Queensland
Donald Trump's justification for a temporary ban on refugees is to improve US security measures.EPA/Pete MarovichUS President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration fundamentally alters decades of bipartisan US practice. It blocks immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, and stops all refugee resettlement for at least...






