Two very different, albeit related, issues here. The raging national debate about immigration policy and "keeping America safe" needs to recognize these differences. The first issue is overall immigration policy, which everyone seems to agree needs reform. Unfortunately, partisan divides have prevented both the Executive Branch and the Congress from coming up with and enacting reforms. Reforms in national policy need to address nuts and bolts issues such as what to do with DACA kids and with the 11 million illegal aliens currently in the country. No progress has been made on this "big picture" front. Secondly and separately is the current issue of who (refugees, green cardholders etc.) gets in based on national security concerns. The main issue seems to be concerns about the adequacy of current "vetting" procedures, hence the EO's temporary ban. Many presume that the current
vetting process is defective. How many citizens actually know what that process does and doesn't do?