The aftermath of an attempted bombing in New York City yesterday raises many questions with few solutions that will positively protect us.

Yesterday a twenty seven year old immigrant from Bangladesh named Akayed Ullah detonated a homemade bomb in a walkway beneath the Port Authority Building. When he was apprehended he stated that he had pledged allegiance to ISIS and his actions were in response to Israeli actions in Gaza.

President Trump expounded that the bomber, who entered the country in February 2011 on an immigrant visa and is a legal permanent resident of the United States, would never have gotten into this country under his travel ban. The President’s travel ban might have or not averted this bombing. In my opinion Ullah could have gotten here by for example by immigrating to Canada and then legally crossing the border, so in essence the program would have not prevented the bombing.

Trump said in a statement, “America should always stand firm against terrorism and extremism, ensuring that our great institutions can address all evil acts of terror.” Furthermore the President called for enhanced security relating to immigration as well as the end of fraud and “chain migration,” or the process by which a U.S. immigrant already in the country sponsors the immigration of family members from the native land. Ullah entered the country through this process. The president criticized the “lax immigration system” and said that those convicted of engaging in terrorism “deserve the strongest penalty allowed by law, including the death penalty in appropriate cases.“

So tightening our immigration laws might filter out some of the potential terrorists, but realistically people like Ullah, who was not on the radar of any federal agency, will always be able to slip through the cracks in our immigration system unless we make it so draconian that it would be almost impossible for anyone from certain so called terrorist incubating countries to get a visa.

Also it is very easy to obtain the supplies that terrorists have used to make bombs such as gun powder, fertilizer and fuel oil to name just a few. Plus if you do a search of the internet you would find many sources that describe how to make a homemade explosive device. So unless the government can somehow shutdown these sites it makes it very easy to learn how to make these devices of terror.

I do wish that this was a more tolerable world where people of different religions and ideologies could learn that though they may disagree on many things that they would agree that life is sacred and precious. Thus there would verbal discourse instead of physical terroristic destruction and there would be no need for the violence that results from the fringe elements of society.

That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike