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| Trump Signs Executive Order Barring Muslims From Certain Countries From Entering The U.S. (Updated) | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 28 2017, 01:39 AM (887 Views) | |
| Webster | Jan 28 2017, 01:39 AM Post #1 |
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MSN News: Trump Bars All Refugees, and Citizens From 7 Muslim Nations...continued in next post.... |
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| Webster | Jan 28 2017, 02:36 PM Post #31 |
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(The Guardian) Hamaseh Tayari, a UK resident who holds an Iranian passport, has been on holiday in Costa Rica with her boyfriend for the last week. She was due to fly back to Glasgow, where she works as a vet, this morning but was denied entry onto the flight because her flight went via New York and she would need a transit visa, which was revoked. Tayari, who grew up in Italy, has never experienced anything like this. She says: “This has really shocked me. We just discovered [what Trump did] at the airport when we went to check-in. I want people to know that this is not just happening to refugees. I am a graduate and I have a Phd. It has happened to a person who is working and who pays tax.” ![]() Tayari and her boyfriend are trying to find an alternative route home. A flight to Madrid on the 30 January will cost them £2000 and they’ll still have to find a way from there to Glasgow. She says: “We had been saving for months for this holiday and it will cost me a month’s salary just to get home. “I am destroyed. I did not know that I could cry for so long. It feels like the beginning of the end. How this is possible? I am really afraid about what is going on.” |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:11 AM Post #32 |
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MSN News: Experts Question Legality Of Trump Ban On Muslim Countries
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:18 AM Post #33 |
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MSN News: Judge Halts Deportations As Refugee Ban Causes Worldwide Furor-Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-halts-deportations-as-refugee-ban-causes-worldwide-furor/ar-AAmlFFZ |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:02 PM Post #34 |
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(The Guardian) Sir Mo Farah, one of the UK’s most successful athletes, has just issued a statement condemning Trump’s travel ban.![]() I am a British citizen who has lived in America for the past six years – working hard, contributing to society, paying my taxes and bringing up our four children in the place they now call home. Now, me and many others like me are being told that we may not be welcome. It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that daddy might not be able to come home – to explain why the president has introduced a policy that comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice. |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:05 PM Post #35 |
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(The Guardian) No 10 has insisted that Trump’s state visit in the summer will go ahead despite growing calls for it to be cancelled in light of his travel ban for people from several Muslim-majority countries. --NEW: No.10 insistent that plans for UK #StateVisit by @realDonaldTrump remain in place despite calls for it to be postponed or cancelled. Darren McCaffrey, Sky News - 29 Jan. 2017) Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron have called for it to be cancelled and a petition supporting the move, which had a few hundred signatures this morning, has now topped 100,000. -Read more: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928 |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:07 PM Post #36 |
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(The Guardian) PA has issued a fuller statement from Sir Mo Farah in which he says Trump’s ban made him “an alien”. The Somalia-born four-time Olympic champion, who lives and trains in the US, said: On 1 January this year, Her Majesty the Queen made me a knight of the realm. On 27 January, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien. I am a British citizen who has lived in America for the past six years – working hard, contributing to society, paying my taxes and bringing up our four children in the place they now call home. Now, me and many others like me are being told that we may not be welcome. It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that daddy might not be able to come home – to explain why the president has introduced a policy that comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice. I was welcomed into Britain from Somalia at eight years old and given the chance to succeed and realise my dreams. I have been proud to represent my country, win medals for the British people and receive the greatest honour of a knighthood. My story is an example of what can happen when you follow polices of compassion and understanding, not hate and isolation. |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:09 PM Post #37 |
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(The Guardian) Trump is awake and tweeting a defence of his controversial travel ban. --Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world - a horrible mess! (Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - 29 Jan. 2017) |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:10 PM Post #38 |
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(The Guardian) The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has added his voice to the growing calls for Trump’s visit to UK in the summer to be cancelled. He reiterated his condemnation of the US travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries and said the UK should not be rolling out the “red carpet” while it remains in place. He also suggested he would boycott the event if it did go ahead. |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:11 PM Post #39 |
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(The Guardian) The Muslim Council of Britain has issued a statement condemning the travel ban and calling for May to take a firmer stand against Trump: Trump’s Muslim Ban: Time for our Government to Stand Up For British Values 29 January 2017 The Muslim Council of Britain condemns the executive order by US President Trump to initiate a ban on people from a select few Muslim majority countries. It calls on our British government to speak out much more forcefully and stand up for the British values it supposedly seeks from others. For all intents and purposes this is a Muslim ban designed not to confront terrorism but to placate the most hateful sections of American society. Those countries whose citizens were found to be involved in terrorism in the United States are not on Mr Trump’s list. Harun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “This ban on Muslims is not only an inconvenience, it is downright dangerous to our values of equality and non-discrimination. We are told that British values include the rule of law and mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith. “And yet, our prime minister has found it hard to express these values when representing us on the world stage. At the same time, the ban will affect us here in Britain, as those with dual nationality such as Sir Mo Farah and the Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi will also be affected by this ban. “Our government should express in no uncertain terms how daft this policy is to its US counterparts, and press home how counter-productive it is in its professed fight to confront terrorism. “In front of Mr Trump, the prime minister said that the point of the “special relationship” was to have a frank dialogue. Well, this is one area where we need to be frank about where we stand. As an important ally of the United States, surely we have a duty to remind them of the values on which they were founded upon.” |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:12 PM Post #40 |
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(The Guardian) The global reaction to Trump’s travel ban continues. Our correspondent in Iraq Martin Chulov has just sent this: Iraq’s government was being urged on Sunday to impose a reciprocal ban and said it was continuing to examine the ramifications of the visa decision. The foreign relations committee said it supported a similar ban on US citizens entering Iraq, while the Popular Mobilisation Units, an umbrella group of mainly Shia militias, called for the expulsion of US citizens currently in the country. Iraqi refugees who have been accepted into the US in the past decade have all been subjected to extensive vetting, involving interviews and background checks. Many have worked for the US military or government. There has been no official reaction to the announcement from Yemen, or Libya, which have each been ravaged by civil war and have no functioning central government. |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:14 PM Post #41 |
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(The Guardian) According to this piece from CNN there was a sense of confusion and chaos when Trump announced his executive order, with homeland security officials being unaware of the detail of the plan. When President Donald Trump declared at the Pentagon Friday he was enacting strict new measures to prevent domestic terror attacks, there were few within his government who knew exactly what he meant. Administration officials weren’t immediately sure which countries’ citizens would be barred from entering the United States. The Department of Homeland Security was left making a legal analysis on the order after Trump signed it. A Border Patrol agent, confronted with arriving refugees, referred questions only to the president himself, according to court filings. -Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/28/politics/donald-trump-travel-ban/index.html |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:15 PM Post #42 |
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(The Guardian) That sense of confusion – and fear – is clear in some of the conversations my colleague Alice Ross has been having with people caught up in the US travel ban. A Palestinian woman living in New York: I’m an architect from the West Bank and I live in New York with my spouse, who holds American citizenship. I have my green card and planned to travel to Palestine this week to visit my family, who were very excited to see me. I also wanted to renew my passport, which is expiring soon. After hearing about yesterday’s ban, we decided to cancel my flight until we have some clarity. It’s true that Palestine is not on the list of banned countries but the fact that the order is so random and vague makes the situation scary. I am afraid if I travel and they expand the order, I will be in limbo and I will be living apart from my spouse for an unknown period. My family is so disappointed I’m not going home, and I don’t know what to do about my new passport. I’ve also lost money by cancelling the flight. Right now everything is so vague and unclear. If they go ahead with these orders it will make the US a big prison where so many people will hate living here. I’m just waiting and hoping for some clarity in the next few days, but I have no idea whether to just risk it and go to Palestine. It’s a mess. And this from an employee at Dubai international airport gives a clear sense of the confusion among those trying to implement the ban: We’ve had no written instructions yet from the US, at least not on the frontline, and the instructions that we have received don’t mention dual nationality or green cards – it’s very unclear what to do. So some people are stopped while others are being given the benefit of the doubt, so if, for example, a passenger is Syrian holding a US passport we’re turning a blind eye, we’re pretending we haven’t seen the Syrian passport. One passenger stuck in the airport here is a Syrian green card holder who was denied boarding. Her family, her job, her whole life is in the US and when she asks us when we will allow her to go home, none of us know what to say. Unfortunately because she’s Syrian it’s difficult for her to get a visa for Dubai and it’s difficult for her to go elsewhere. At the moment her chances of getting into the US depends on which airport she goes to. If she’s landing in New York they’ll send her back, if it’s Houston they might accept her – what we’ve found is it really depends on which shift is operating, it’s not even a standard airport policy. Last I heard they were trying any airport as long as she gets to US soil, and then at least once she’s there she can create a legal challenge or manage her way in instead of being stuck in Dubai. |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:16 PM Post #43 |
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(The Guardian) According to CNN, Trump’s travel ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries may be just the start. It has just published a report that suggests the administration is considering asking all foreign visitors “to disclose all websites and social media sites they visit, and to share the contacts in their cell phones”. -Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/donald-trump-immigrant-policy-social-media-contacts/index.html |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:18 PM Post #44 |
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(The Guardian) According to Reuters, the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has just said “we need to be careful” while carrying out President Trump’s order. A bit more from Reuters on those comments from Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader. The US Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said the United States needs to “be careful” while implementing President Donald Trump’s new executive order targeting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. McConnell said on ABC’s This Week program it was a good idea to tighten the vetting of immigrants, but “I also think it’s important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism, are Muslims, both in this country and overseas ... We need to be careful as we do this.” |
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| Webster | Jan 29 2017, 02:19 PM Post #45 |
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(The Guardian) Political reaction is starting to gather pace in the US. Reuters has this: White House chief of staff Reince Priebus defended its implementation of Trump’s executive action targeting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries and said only two dozen travellers remain detained. “It wasn’t chaos,” Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, adding that 325,000 travelers entered the United States on Saturday and 109 of them were detained. “Most of those people were moved out. We’ve got a couple dozen more that remain and I would suspect that as long as they’re not awful people that they will move through before another half a day today,” he said. |
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