Trump’s Muslim ban built on parallel Clinton, Bush, and Obama refugee restriction policies.

Evidence

Trump secured this victory in the Supreme Court by stipulating conditions used by Clinton, Bush, and Obama to enact similar albeit more moderate restrictions on admission of refugees, migrants, and visitors. Trump’s statements and policies were thus extreme expressions of political elites’ long history of using national security to deploy racist policies. The impact has been devastating particularly in the context of a massive refugee crisis taking place around the world, in particular from Muslim-majority countries devastated by US wars, counterrevolution, civil wars, economic crisis, and climate change. Trump banned these migrants from coming to the United States and capped overall refugee numbers at a historic low of 15,000 a year. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 629

Categorization

• SEED: Bipartisan continuity of refugee restrictionism (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump) would sharpen the claim that Islamophobia is imperial policy, not a single-administration aberration.
• XREF: connects to: Trump’s Muslim ban extended bipartisan precedents set by Clinton, Bush, and Obama; Trump’s Muslim ban was an extreme version of bipartisan prior refugee restrictions.; Anti-Muslim exclusion continued consistently across Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Trump’s Muslim ban extended bipartisan precedents set by Clinton, Bush, and Obama #corroborates (1.00)
• Trump’s Muslim ban was an extreme version of bipartisan prior refugee restrictions. #expands (0.95)
• Trump’s anti-Muslim measures continue rather than depart from prior policy #corroborates (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 129
• Anti-Muslim exclusion continued consistently across Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations #corroborates (0.85)
• Presidents across party lines securitized Muslim identity through state action #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 108
• Bush and Clinton administrations resisted the neocon anti-Islamic-terrorism agenda #contradicts (0.80)
• Obama’s inclusive rhetoric coexisted with surveillance that later licensed Trump’s explicit Islamophobia #corroborates (0.75)
• Reagan-era war on terror did not persist through Bush and Clinton #contradicts (0.75)