Interview: Analyzing the Trump Executive Order on Immigration

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Jasmine El-Gamal, Former Adviser on Syria to the Department of Defense and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

The Atlantic Council’s Jasmine El-Gamal rejoined us on The Drive this afternoon to assess the impacts of Trump’s Executive Order on immigration.  Jasmine served four Secretaries of Defense as an adviser on Iraq , Syria, and Lebanon, in addition to having served as a translator in Iraq with the US military in 2003.  She says that while the Executive Order shouldn’t be considered a “Muslim ban”, there are problematic elements of the actions and the long-term implications could do more harm than good for national security.