Executive Branch

President Trump, Quebec and the Dismantling of CVE

Quinta Jurecic
Monday, February 6, 2017, 12:26 PM

Since President Donald Trump signed his executive order restricting entry into the United States by immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries, the White House has pointed to three main examples of supposed security threats to justify its unjustifiable directive.

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Since President Donald Trump signed his executive order restricting entry into the United States by immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries, the White House has pointed to three main examples of supposed security threats to justify its unjustifiable directive. Most recently, the President himself pointed by tweet to an attempted knife attack outside the Louvre museum in Paris—in which one person (other than the attacker himself) was lightly injured—as a reason why the United States must “GET SMART.”



Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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