Refugee ban could be used as ISIL recruiting tool, some say

January 29, 2017

President Trump’s ban on refugees from mostly Muslim nations could be used as propaganda by the Islamic State to recruit more violence-prone members, experts said Sunday.

“It (the ban) is giving a pretty good recruiting tool to ISIS,” said Stuart Shapiro, a professor and director of the Public Policy Program at the Bloustein School at Rutgers University.

USA Today, January 29, 2017

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