12 countries won’t cut it: Why Trump’s travel ban ultimately falls short



“We will not let what happened in Europe happen in America,” President Trump declared Wednesday, unveiling a new travel ban targeting 12 nations — mostly Islamic-majority countries from the Middle East and Africa.

It’s a strong first step toward fulfilling the original 2015 promise of a full moratorium on immigration from regions plagued by jihadist ideology. But let’s not pretend Europe’s crisis stemmed from poor vetting of criminal records. The real problem was mass migration from cultures openly hostile to Western values — especially toward Jews and, by extension, Christians.

The United States ranks near the bottom of the list for anti-Semitism. That’s something worth protecting — not surrendering to appease lobbyists or foreign governments.

And the new list leaves troubling gaps.

Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” was the defining issue that launched his political movement. Nine years later, the rationale is even stronger — and now, the president has the power to make it happen.

Consider the context: Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the alleged Boulder attacker who shouted he wanted to “end all Zionists,” entered the United States in 2022 with a wife and five children — admitted from Kuwait.

The only question that matters: How many more share Soliman’s views?

The numbers are staggering. By my calculation, the U.S. admitted 1,453,940 immigrants from roughly 43 majority-Muslim countries between 2014 and 2023. That figure doesn’t include over 100,000 student visas, nor the thousands who’ve overstayed tourist visas and vanished into the interior.

Soliman is not an outlier. He’s a warning. And warnings demand a response.

Trump’s January executive order called for a 60-day review by the secretary of state, the attorney general, the Homeland Security secretary, and the director of national intelligence to identify countries with inadequate screening procedures. Four and a half months later — following the Boulder attack — the administration announced bans on nationals from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.

But Trump didn’t mention anti-American or anti-Jewish sentiment — only logistical concerns like poor criminal record-keeping, high visa overstay rates, and limited government cooperation.

That misses the point entirely.

Jew-hatred — and by extension, hatred of the West — isn't just a byproduct of chaos in failed states like Somalia or Taliban-run Afghanistan. It runs deep across the Middle East, even in countries with functioning governments. In fact, some of the most repressive regimes, like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are openly hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood, yet still export radicalized individuals.

And those individuals know precisely where to go: America, where radical Islam finds more tolerance than in many Islamic countries.

Good diplomatic relations don’t mean good immigration policy. Pew’s 2010 global attitudes survey showed over 95% of people in many Middle Eastern countries held unfavorable views of Jews — including those in Egypt and Jordan, U.S. allies.

The Anti-Defamation League’s global index confirms it: The highest levels of support for anti-Semitic stereotypes come from the Middle East. According to the ADL, 93% of Palestinians and upwards of 70% to 80% of residents from other Islamic nations agree with tropes about Jews controlling the world’s wars, banks, and governments.

Source: Anti-Defamation League

Meanwhile, the United States ranks near the bottom of the list for anti-Semitism. That’s something worth protecting — not surrendering to appease lobbyists or foreign governments.

So why continue importing hundreds of thousands of people from places where hatred of Jews is considered normal? Why welcome migration from countries like Iraq, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia — where assimilation into American civic values is practically impossible?

The answer may lie in the influence nations like Qatar and Saudi Arabia still exert over U.S. foreign policy. But political cowardice is no excuse for policy paralysis.

Twelve countries on the ban list is a good start. But most don’t reflect the true source of radical Islamic immigration into the United States.

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Banning immigration from these regions isn’t about infringing civil liberties. It’s about preventing a civilizational crisis. Unlike Europe, which responded to rising Islamic extremism by criminalizing dissent and speech, America can take the wiser path: protect national security without sacrificing the First Amendment.

We don’t need hate-speech laws. We need sane immigration policy.

Unfortunately, bureaucrats in the administration watered down Trump’s original vision. They framed the bans in terms of “data-sharing” and technocratic concerns. They sought narrow criteria and limited political blowback.

But the law is clear. Trump v. Hawaii affirmed the president’s broad constitutional authority to exclude foreign nationals.

That authority exists for a reason.

President Trump rose to power by sounding the alarm about what unchecked migration could do to the West. That warning was prophetic. And now, he has the mandate — and the obligation — to act on it.

Twelve countries won’t cut it. The question now isn’t whether Trump will act — it’s whether he’ll act in time.

Because if we want to avoid Europe’s fate, we don’t just need a new policy. We need the old Trump — unapologetic, unflinching, and unafraid to speak hard truths.

Let’s hope he finishes what he started.

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Disturbing online materials allegedly offer glimpse into thoughts, potential motives of Nashville school shooting suspect



The alleged writings of the suspected shooter at Antioch High School in Nashville reveal the state of mind and possible motives for the deadly school shooting.

As Blaze News previously reported, the high school was placed on lockdown due to reports of gunshots being fired in the building around 11 a.m. local time Wednesday.

'I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take anymore.'

The shooter — identified by police as 17-year-old Solomon Henderson — reportedly used a handgun to fire several shots in the school cafeteria.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that two students were shot. A male student suffered a wound after a bullet grazed him, but 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante was fatally shot. A third student suffered a facial wound due to a fall.

The shooter fatally shot himself in the head, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.

The shooter allegedly livestreamed the attack from multiple social media platforms, including Kick, which is similar to Twitch.

Kick confirmed the shooting was partially livestreamed on the platform but stressed that the account was "rapidly" banned and the content was quickly removed.

"We extend our thoughts to everyone impacted by this event," the company said in a statement on X. "Violence has no place on Kick. We are actively working with law enforcement and taking all appropriate steps to support their investigation."

WTVF-TV obtained documents said to be written by Henderson, which provided a possible glimpse into what he may have been thinking prior to the shooting.

He allegedly had a layout of the school in his documents. Henderson reportedly wrote that he "was ashamed to be black."

The Nashville Banner reported that Henderson wrote, "Candace Owens influenced me above all each time she spoke."

Henderson allegedly posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League — which the Anti-Defamation League describes as a "small network of virulently anti-Semitic provocateurs" that has a mission to "expel Jews from America."

Posters from the GDL are seen stating that "every single aspect" of the Trump campaign, Biden administration, and mainstream media are "Jewish."

Henderson reportedly also expressed that he was "miserable" and suicidal for months.

"I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living breathing disgrace," he allegedly wrote in online comments on Nov. 18. "All my [in real life] friends outgrew me, act like they didn't f**king know me. Being me was so f**king humiliating. That's why I spend all day dissociating."

Henderson reportedly said that he didn't consider himself to be a victim of bullying.

'Today seems like a good day to die.'

Henderson — an Antioch student — purportedly said of his high school, "School is a daycare. It's just impossible for you to actually think. You say things because other people have said it before then go repeat ad nauseam somewhere else. In school, we're taught to wake up early, shut up, sit for long periods of hours, do tasks you hate, then repeat."

Henderson allegedly was influenced by other school shooters, including the transgender mass shooter who murdered three 9-year-old children and three adults in the 2023 shooting at the Covenant School — a private Christian elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville.

Henderson purportedly had a photo of the Covenant School shooter in his documents. He reportedly wrote that he did not intend to kill any law enforcement officers. His manifesto allegedly included a link to instructions on how to carry out a mass killing and ranked targets from easiest to most difficult.

The Tennessean reported that the 300-page document was posted on X and included several photos of Henderson, who reportedly praised Adolf Hitler and shared photos of previous school shootings.

The writer allegedly said the original plan would need to "speed up," and the goal would be to kill "at least 10 people."

A post on a Bluesky account linked in the document reportedly stated: "Today seems like a good day to die."

Nashville Police Chief John Drake confirmed there were "materials" on the internet that law enforcement is investigating.

"That's in the initial stages, but we’ll continue to follow up on that," Drake stated.

WTVF said it did not immediately receive a response to a request for comment from police. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is assisting with the investigation.

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