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The 6 countries in Trump's new travel ban pose little threat to US national security

  • Written by Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The new ban applies to citizens of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania.Ingus Kruklitis/Shutterstock.com

Over the past two decades, how many people have been killed in the U.S. by extremists from the six countries on the Trump administration’s new travel ban list?

The answer is zero, according to data I have collected from...

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