During his election campaign, Donald Trump promised to take steps to protect his country from terrorists. Now, as President Trump, he is trying to fulfil that promise by introducing measures to control immigration; specifically, he is targeting migrants from countries which have a history of producing terrorists.
Inevitably, there has been a huge backlash from the liberal left as well as the liberal right, those who see themselves as occupying the entirely mythical 'centre ground'. President Trump is being vilified from all directions and by most of the media. In the UK, the BBC has found it almost impossible to avoid being negative about Trump, almost every comment by every newsreader being couched in a way as to indicate disapproval; ITN has similarly failed in its duty of impartiality.
President Trump's actions may have been a little heavy handed but can anyone deny that there is a serious need for much stricter border controls, not only in the US but in most other countries too ? For far too long western nations have accepted vast hordes of immigrants whose economic and cultural backgrounds are alien. These immigrants have been allowed to establish separate 'communities' in which extremists have been able to flourish and in which terrorism has been encouraged.
The vast majority of terrorism around the world now is from Islamic extremists, people who apparently want to see a world-wide Muslim Caliphate established; these people believe in abduction, rape, torture, murder and more. There are many instances of acts of terrorism being carried out by people who had previously shown no obvious signs of having been radicalised and yet we have done nothing to stem the flow of migrants, indeed, under pressure from the 'liberal elite', we have accepted more and more.
At long last, a major political figure has cried "Enough !", but has been met with almost universal condemnation. President Trump is no politician and has acted more out of a gut reaction than would other leaders, but is he really wrong ?
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