This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, October 2, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The President has made numerous changes to various programs that allow foreigners

to enter the United States, but why these specific changes? And what does it mean for the United

States that it will take fewer refugees this year than in years past.

Cato's Alex Narasta comments.

The president has altered the travel ban now for a third time.

What is the difference now between the previous iterations?

The main difference is instead of blocking all people from these countries

in some cases it singles out certain folks so in the case of Venezuela it says if you're

related to a government official or certain government officials then you can't come to the US as a tourist

and others it's sort of a blanket ban in the case of Iran it says you can't come here as

an immigrant or a non-immigrant visa unless you're a student.

So it's a little bit more specific in that way.

They also cut out the country of Sudan and added Chad, North Korea and Venezuela to the list.

Okay, so why, I can have some understanding of Sudan, Chad no one knows it is a mystery of why Chad is on the list

the one line justification in the executive order is that they did a thorough review of all of the identity and security procedures in these countries around the world and they narrowed it down to those that have problems,

asked them to fix those problems and Chad didn't fix its problems.

That's fascinating to me because I have a very hard time believing that Chad has a better identity or security system than say Molly or Malawi or any of these other very poor African countries.

In fact, when you look at the continent, only one African country has even an electronic

passport and that's Nigeria.

So the speculation is that Sudan was taken off the list.

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