<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Barriers to Entry
What We’re Following
Protected Borders: It’s been a dizzying week of executive orders from President Trump, marking a major foreign-policy shift toward nationalism. The latest of his signed directives, which suspends the U.S. refugee program and appears to target Muslim-majority nations, is intended to stop potential terrorists from entering the country—but that’s a “coldhearted folly,” according to Graeme Wood, and it probably won’t work. Meanwhile, history suggests that the consequences of Trump’s order could be devastating for the refugees turned away.
As for non-Americans already here, Trump’s executive orders to step up deportations of the undocumented and crack down on “sanctuary cities” are likely to be , as, “the fear of anyone finding out I was undocumented loomed over my entire childhood”). A sad irony to this is that most Americans—of any political background—, not only because of humanitarian concerns but because of the massive costs and logistical difficulties. Also costly: Trump’s now-mandated wall on the Mexican border. To pay for that massive project, the White House has floated the possibility of a or a .
