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President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order Friday that suspended the entry of refugees into the United States for 120 days, and barred any form of entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days.

The seven predominantly Muslim countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

The Order creates an apparent conflict of interest, as none of the countries involved in these executive orders include countries where the Trump Organization does business. The Trump Organization has business in over 20 countriesacross the globe.

This seems to suggest that President Trump could be attempting to avoid making enemies with countries that his organization benefits from, and that he may use the presidency to pursue the advancement of the Trump Organization as opposed to the advancement of free markets.

Trump justified the Order by saying, we want to ensure that we are not admitting into the country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country, and deeply love our people.

While Trump has officially stepped down fromevery other office he holds, which number over 400, this doesnt separate him completely from the possibility of using his power to protect his business interests, especially since he put his sons Eric and Don Jr. in charge of the Trump Organization.

Libertarians were already suspicious of Trump due to the possibility of discrimination on the basis of religion. Trump hasalsostated that persecuted Christian refugees would get priority in entering the country.

If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible, said Trump in an interviewwith CBN News. And the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them.

Just prior to signing the Order, Trump said that we must never forget the lessons of 9/11, nor the heroes who lost their lives at the Pentagon, yet he is leaving Saudi Arabia, the country that 15 of the 19 9/11 attackers came from, off of the visa ban list. The Trump Organization have sizable business intersets in Saudi Arabia.

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This post was written by Nicholas Amato.

The views expressed here belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect our views and opinions.

Nicholas Amato is the News Editor at Being Libertarian. Hes an undergraduate student at San Jose State University, majoring in political science and minoring in journalism.

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