text: The 2011 arrest of the  Bowling Green Al Qaeda operatives (posing as refugees), was the end of an investigation that had started 5 months after Waad Alwan's 2009 arrival. This was why the Obama Administration temporarily shut down immigration from Iraq and 5 other Middle Eastern countries. This incident, chilling in its implications, was reported widely in May, 2011, as a success for the FBI.
  
   I think Trump's executive order would have been able to stand on its merits, if his administration had taken a bit more time on the rollout process and provided avenues for green card holders to continue to gain access to this country. The threat of harm to WA's economy was one of the factors considered in the decision. The Trump executive order was also deemed, by the judge, to not be responding to credible threats. It also would have been more believable if Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and other countries, implicated in exporting terror, had been part of the order. This was an unforced error.