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Trump’s chief spokesman Sean Spicer just explicitly stated that it's not about countries[1]: >certain areas of the world produce people who seek to do us harm.

• throwaway8727 10y ago
  Regions are not not necessarily race either. It could easily be about culture and the associated value systems. For example during WW2 - even before the US joined it - america did reject refugees from europe because they might have been nazis. Nazis were just as caucasian as most americans, but they had a culture that was clearly seen not just as incompatible but as hostile. To the "alt-right", fundamentalist christians, nationalists or simply less-informed conservatives someone from the middle east may appear to have a similarly fundamentally incompatible value-system as a nazi would have to an american in the 1930s or a commie during the cold war. Race and Nationality are a proxy for religion and culture which is a proxy for value systems. And value systems are what people disagree with and vote against.
• makomk 10y ago
  Is it really? For example, the region held by ISIL is indisputably an area of the world which produces people who seek to do us harm, for values of "us" that include America and Europe. Does that make discriminating against people who try and enter the country from there is racism?