Imposing blanket visa restrictions punishes ordinary travelers, students, and diplomats for disputes they did not create, while sidesteppingleaving the deeperroot drivers of migration untouched. These Trump-eraperformative tacticsmeasures targetamount to scapegoating, fuelling racism and social tension rather than delivering workable solutions, while targeting countries that issuedissue justonly a few hundred work and study visas lasta year, turningturns enforcement into political theater rather than problem-solving. Treating limited migration flows as a security crisis may looksignal toughtoughness, but itdurable distorts priorities. Durable border control depends on sustained cooperation and credible agreements, not symbolic threats that hardendeepen positions and reduce trustmistrust.