The principal purpose of Director Wray's appearance before the Senate today was to address last summer's violence, the January 6th insurrection, and domestic terrorism.
Radical right-wing Republican Senator Tom Cotton used much of his time today to criticize President Biden's lifting of travel restrictions on citizens from several nations on which Trump imposed a travel ban.
Under the Covid Pandemic, it makes sense to manage international travel carefully to screen for terrorists and criminals. However, Trump's motivation incorporated his biases that precluded Human Rights and people's right to flee violence for safety and freedom.
President Biden lifted some of the restrictions for humanitarian reasons. However, Senator Cotton couched criticism, implying that President Biden's policy decision was wrong. Cotton tried to get the FBI director to join his politically motivated criticism. The director refused.
What was apparent is Senator Cotton's transparent racism, implying that refugees from Myanmar and Burma might include terrorists and spies.
Here is what might get confusing. Biden reinstated restrictions that Trump lifted.
"This move will reinstate the restrictions that former President Donald Trump lifted last week, and includes non-US citizens who have been in Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, as well as the new addition of South Africa."
Biden lifted restrictions that were discriminatory as imposed by Trump.
"President Joe Biden this week reversed a controversial travel ban on certain countries with majority Muslim populations in one of his first efforts to overturn actions taken by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
"The United States was built on a foundation of religious freedom and tolerance, a principle enshrined in the United States Constitution. Nevertheless, the previous administration enacted a number of Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations that prevented certain individuals from entering the United States — first from primarily Muslim countries, and later, from largely African countries," Biden wrote in his presidential action reversing the ban on Wednesday. "Those actions are a stain on our national conscience and are inconsistent with our long history of welcoming people of all faiths and no faith at all."
https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/biden-reverses-travel-ban-muslim-majority-countries
"This decision, in November 2017, is a boost for Mr. Trump's policy against travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen - six mainly Muslim countries.
This move comes after the court in June ruled that parts of Donald Trump's ban could go ahead.
The President's plan to ban people from certain countries coming into the US, has faced various legal challenges since it was first announced.
The White House first placed travel restrictions on: Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia.
The travel ban was then extended to include people from three more countries: North Korea, Venezuela, and Chad.
This meant that visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen would be barred from entering the US. It also put a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the country."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/38794001
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