Welcome back to the City Journal podcast.

I'm your host, Charles Van Leeman, Afeld, the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the panel today are Jim Z. Martino, sponsored for immigration things at the Manhattan Institute,

Tall Fort Gang, legal guy at the Manhattan Institute, and Rina Mukherji, who works on education

and politics and really everything we throw at her at the Manhattan Institute. Thank everyone,

as always, for being on. I want to take us right into the news of the day, and Daniel will be on deck very shortly

to tell us what the heck is actually happening, because right now I'm literally working

off of his tweets.

Last night, the Trump administration announced a revised travel ban.

Nationals of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Congo, Equatorial, Guinea, Haiti,

Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. And yes, I did read that, have been banned

from entering the country. And then there are a number of other countries where there's a limitation

on what visas can come in. This is obviously sort of a big policy dispute in the first Trump administration. It

seems like they're returning to it with gusto. So I want to get into both what this augurs and also

the merits of the policy. I will note that a lot of people have connected this to the

Malasov cocktail attack in Colorado last weekend, where the, the offender involved was an Egyptian

illegal immigrant. Egypt is not on this list, but I think this is seen as being connected to

the administration's sort of broader anti-immigrant terrorism agenda. But Daniel, why don't

you, as the immigration guy on our panel, as I said earlier,

break down a little bit more what's going on here. Yeah, which, by the way, Egypt is not on the

list, but they did include a provision in the proclamation saying they will study adding

Egypt in like the next six months or so. So, you know, I think it's important to know that this

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