After the San Bernardino Terrorist attacks, a new law has been passed by US lawmakers that amended the visa waiver program in order to provide enhanced security. The new law, known as HR 158, restricts a group of people and certain nationalities from automatically gaining access to US soil without a thorough background check. While the US tries to combat the threat posed by the Islamic State, it could at the same time be hindering its own progress in opening up to a whole group of moderate Muslims. The new law is unfairly branding journalists, humanitarian aid workers, business executives, refugees and Iranian nationals as terrorist risks. Quartz reports: The visa waiver program allows citizens in 38 countries, mostly in the European Union, to receive online travel authorization to visit the US without a visa for up to 90 days. But under the new law, any applicant who has been to Iran, Iraq, Syria or Sudan since 2011, or is a foreign national of those countries, is deemed a terrorist risk and thus ineligible for the waiver program. To enter the US, they must now apply for a visa and undergo an interview with US authorities. The politicians who support [...]