U.S. Travel Association president and CEO Roger Dow has rejected U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s proposal to severely restrict issuance of U.S. travel visas

in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris last week. The proposed legislation focuses on refugees from countries with a “significant jihadist movement” and extends to visitors and students. It also would impose hurdles for citizens of countries that participate in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. “Sen. Paul is suggesting a discredited 1930s approach—sweeping isolationism—to a decidedly 21st-century problem,” Dow said in a statement. “The Visa Waiver Program is an effective, essential security tool that we cannot afford to relinquish, especially when it played zero role in the Paris attacks. Let's address the security problems we have, rather than creating new ones.”