(Bloomberg) -- In defending the trio of travel orders blocking visitors from several mostly Muslim countries, President Donald Trump insisted to skeptical judges that he was never trying to enact the "Muslim ban" he campaigned for. Still, visa data for those countries shows he's effectively done just that. While the president's executive orders were tied up in court challenges for much of 2017, the number of travelers from the targeted nations has dropped dramatically since 2016.
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