Expands Muslim ban to immigration from “areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism” after Orlando

In a June 13, 2016 national security speech after the Orlando attack, Trump shifted from his earlier call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” to a broadened proposal to ban immigration from “areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies.” He framed this as a more “politically correct” version of his Muslim ban, but the effect was the same: treating entire regions and populations as presumptive threats based on religion and nationality. Coverage from ABC and other outlets notes that he repeatedly linked Muslim communities and refugees to terrorism, using the massacre as justification to harden borders and revive his ban under a new label. The speech shows how he rebranded, rather than renounced, his core policy of collective punishment for Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries (see 2015-12-07_to_2015-12-13 and 2016-05-09_to_2016-05-15).

"We will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies until we fully understand how to end these threats." — June 13, 2016 national security speech responding to the Orlando attack, in which Trump broadened his earlier Muslim ban into a ban on immigration from regions with a “proven history of terrorism” while repeatedly associating Muslims and refugees with terrorism