The annual chance of being murdered in an attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist on US soil is about 1 in 4.6 million per year. To put that in perspective, the annual chance of being murdered in a normal homicide during that time is about 330 times greater.
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Alex Nowrasteh
The Trump administration is preparing several travel and immigration bans for people from different countries that could be implemented as soon as this week. On inauguration day, the Trump administration issued an executive order to submit a report about security, vetting, and screening deficiencies in other governments to justify blocking travelers and immigrants from those countries within 60 days. The point of the research project is so the Trump administration can jump through the unserious legal hoops that the Supreme Court required in the Trump v. Hawaii decision on the so-called Muslim ban during Trump’s first term. The 60-day clock is up next week.
