Ryan Mauro - Investigative Researcher, Captial Research Center Joins Houston's Morning News

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's still my favorite Cuban. Six twenty two is our
time here in Houston's Morning News. A right, Ryan Morrows
with US Investigative Research at Capital Research Center, forty one
countries would have at least a partial travel ban. From
what we're hearing about this new potential Trump order on traveling,
some would be a complete revocation of your ability to travel.

(00:22):
There in Cuba is on that list. Ryan, I'm a
little surprised to see Cuba there. We've kind of had
more of a normal relationship with them, at least from
a traveling standpoint, for the last few years. We've always
had a policy of allowing Cubans who can make it
to our shores to stay here in this country. Is
that going to change?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
If the so called travel ban is in fact a
travel ban has described and I don't think it actually
will look like this, then yes, the policy towards Cubans
would change. But the reason that I think that whatever
the final product is is going to be very different
is because during the first Trump administry, uh when he
so called band travel from seven Mostlim majority countries. I

(01:07):
think I was the only analyst I saw on even
Fox pointing out that if you looked at the exact words.
There are all these exceptions to it, like all the
reasonable exceptions that you would say, like you know, medical
need or profoundly in the interest of the United States
and can show it all these loose I guess you'd

(01:27):
called the bluepoles, but exceptions that even from those countries
you could still come into the United States, therefore making
it not a ban. I'm hoping that whenever some whatever
version of this comes out, particularly in regards to Afghanistan.
I mean, I know many Afghans you served with US
forces that are still waiting to get out of there,

(01:48):
as a Taliban you know, could potentially kill them. And
I'm hoping that whatever is the final version has an
exception so that we could start moving that process along again,
because right now it's frozen.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. If that's the case, then it sounds to me
like what they really want to do is they really
want to be able to fully vet whoever's coming from
these countries. In other words, we need to know who
you are, why you're coming here, what your background is.
In other words, we don't want to just accept you
because you're from that country. We want to make sure
we know who you are. Right.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
And it's also a pressure tactic because a lot of
these countries don't do things like submit forged documents that
they come across into the INTERPAL, like this international database
that countries share so that they can identify such criminals
in their own countries later on. So it is a
pressure tactic. There's three categories according to the reports. The
one is supposedly no one can come in from these

(02:44):
countries in the first category. I don't think that will
actually happen. The second one is you have to actually
have an in person interview and undertake additional procedures in
order to come and then the third is basically your
on warning that you could be in either of those
other two categories if the countries don't improve their procedures.

(03:05):
One concern I do have is that in terms of
vetting is that there isn't an agreement yet as of
what that looks like. So then you have to have
the agreement and then you have to implement it, and
so that could take a long time. It's not as
simple as just saying, let's let's put in a better
vetting system.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, all right, Easier said than done. In other words, okay,
good to hear from you, sir, Appreciate it. Ryan Morrow,
investigative researcher at Capital Research Center at six twenty six