U.S. Diplomats Have Drafted A “Dissent Memo” Objecting To Trump’s Muslim Ban
According to a report by ABC News, “dozens of foreign service officers and other career diplomats stationed around the world are so concerned about President Donald Trump’s new executive order restricting Syrian refugees and other immigrants from entering the United States that they are contemplating taking the rare step of sending a formal objection to senior State Department officials in Washington.”
The memo represents the most significant opposition so far from within the Trump administration to the Donald Trump’s Muslim-ban order.
According to ABC News the memo warns, “This ban … will not achieve its stated aim to protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States.”
And it went on to say, “It will immediately sour relations with these six countries, as well as much of the Muslim world, which sees the ban as religiously motivated.”
Diplomats: Ban stands in opposition to “American values”
The letter also said, “This ban stands in opposition to the core American values that we, as federal employees, took an oath to uphold.” And continued by calling out the ineffectiveness of the policy, “The end result of this ban will not be a drop in terror attacks against the United States; it will be a drop in international goodwill towards Americans and a threat towards our economy.”
The ABC News piece went on to say, “The draft also suggested Trump’s ‘knee jerk’ executive order was based on misguided notions about terrorism in the United States, noting that ‘the overwhelming majority’ of terrorist attacks in the U.S. have been committed not by recent immigrants but by native-born or naturalized U.S. citizens ‘who have been living in the United States for decades, if not since birth.'”
And the memo concluded by saying, “Given the near absence of terror attacks committed in recent years” by visa holders from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Libya or Sudan, “this ban will have little practical effect in improving public safety.”
