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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Right leaning buddy claims Obama instituted a similar ban on immigrants when he was in office. What are the major differences here?
gpt
He is most likely talking about the pause of Iraqi refugees in 2011. Trumps ban is basically Obama's but on steroids. In 2011 if you where a refugee or requesting asylum in the U.S while in Iraq you could apply but none of the info would be process for during a six month time period. This was brought on by 2 terrorist found in the united states that most likely came in as refugees.

Trumps ban pretty much restricts all non-u.s citizens coming from several middle eastern countries. The original order actually calls for the deportation of people coming from the specified countries that are in transit or already hold visas, however this was denied by several judges. Basically the key difference here is that during Obama's you couldn't get a visa to get into the states. during trumps it doesn't matter you just cant get in.