Countries: United States of America, Afghanistan, Myanmar, World Source: Women's Refugee Commission The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) condemns the Trump administration’s travel ban targeting refugees and immigrants from several Muslim-majority countries. The policy is discriminatory, dangerous, and counter to the nation’s core values — and its consequences reach far beyond those immediately barred.“Policies rooted in fear and prejudice do not make our country safer — they make it smaller, meaner, and less secure,” said Melanie Nezer, VP of advocacy and external relations. “Closing opportunities for people to work, study, and even to live with their families based on nationality and religion betrays our own interests and our most fundamental core values.“This new travel ban comes hard on the heels of this administration’s efforts to close our borders to refugees and asylum seekers. For women suffering from persecution and displacement in countries like Sudan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar, this ban nails the door shut. WRC has worked with displaced women from these countries to document the dangers they face, including lack of access to basic healthcare and education and widespread sexual violence and abuse. These dangers are already exacerbated by the withdrawal of U.S. aid, the closure of the refugee program, and the near elimination of asylum; the travel ban is yet another way the U.S. government shows these women they don’t matter, and America doesn’t care.”The Women’s Refugee Commission calls for an immediate end to this unjust and discriminatory policy and urges the administration to uphold the nation’s longstanding commitments to human rights, refugee protection, and equal treatment under the law.