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Trump Signs Executive Order Barring Muslims From Certain Countries From Entering The U.S. (Updated)
Topic Started: Jan 28 2017, 01:39 AM (884 Views)
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MSN News: Trump Bars All Refugees, and Citizens From 7 Muslim Nations
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing Syrian carnage be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries.

Declaring the measure part of an extreme vetting plan to “keep radical Islamic terrorists” out of the country, Mr. Trump also ordered that Christians around the globe who are seeking entry into the United States should be granted priority over Muslims, for the first time establishing a religious test for refugees.

“We don’t want them here,” Mr. Trump said of Islamic terrorists during a signing ceremony at the Pentagon. “We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country, and love deeply our people.”

Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump explained to an interviewer for the Christian Broadcasting Network that Christians in Syria were “horribly treated” and alleged that under previous administrations, “if you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible.”

“I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them,” the president said.

The executive order suspends the entry of refugees into the United States for 120 days and directs officials to determine additional screening ”to ensure that those approved for refugee admission do not pose a threat to the security and welfare of the United States.”

The order also stops the admission of refugees from Syria indefinitely, and bars entry into the United States for 90 days from seven predominantly Muslim countries linked to concerns about terrorism. Those countries are: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Additionally, Mr. Trump signed a memorandum on Friday directing what he called “a great rebuilding of the armed services,” saying it would call for budget negotiations to acquire new planes, new ships and new resources for the nation’s military.

“Our military strength will be questioned by no one, but neither will our dedication to peace,” Mr. Trump said.

Announcing his “extreme vetting” plan, the president invoked the specter of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Most of the 19 hijackers on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa., were from Saudi Arabia. The rest were from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon. None of those countries is on Mr. Trump’s visa ban list.

Human rights activists roundly condemned Mr. Trump’s actions, describing them as officially sanctioned religious persecution dressed up to look like an effort to make the United States safer.

The International Rescue Committee called it “harmful and hasty.” The American Civil Liberties Union described it as a “euphemism for discriminating against Muslims.” Raymond Offensheiser, the president of Oxfam America, said the order will harm families around the world who are threatened by authoritarian governments.

“The refugees impacted by today’s decision are among the world’s most vulnerable people — women, children, and men — who are simply trying to find a safe place to live after fleeing unfathomable violence and loss,” Mr. Offensheiser said.

The president signed the executive order shortly after issuing a statement noting that Friday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an irony that many of his critics highlighted on Twitter.
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(The Guardian) Congress representatives are fighting against Border and Customs Patrol officials at Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia, after dozens of people reportedly remain detained despite last night’s court order putting a stay on Trump’s executive order.

Representative Don Beyer is at the airport, with Congress colleagues Gerry Connolly and Jamie Raskin.

--We have a constitutional crisis today. Four Members of Congress asked CBP officials to enforce a federal court order and were turned away. (Rep. Don Beyer, D-VA - 29 Jan. 2017)

From a Huffington Post reporter, who tweeted that he was told 16 people were detained off one flight from Turkey.

--At Dulles, Rep. Raskin just told me: "The rule of law is on a tightrope in America right now." (Jason Cherkis, Huffington Post - 29 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) Guardian reporter Lauren Gambino from DC’s rally against Trump’s travel ban:

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--The march descended on the Capitol chanting, “do your job” at the mostly absent Congress. (It’s a Sunday, after all!).

Jennifer Rodriguez, the daughter of Cuban refugees, marched with them, wearing a pink “pussyhat” from last weekend’s march.

“I can’t imagine what would have happened if President Kennedy at that time had decided to do what Trump is doing— to just send them back,” she said, her voice swelling with emotion. “They would have been killed.”

Rodriguez said she was appalled by the actions the new administration has taken and vowed to continue to protest Trump and his agenda.

“I’ll be here every weekend if that’s what it takes,” she said as the crowd converged on the Capitol lawn.

Like Rodriguez, several people had signs that said “child of refugees” and “nation of immigrants. Many carried signs with the words from the Statue of Liberty that have for generations represented America’s welcoming of immigrants: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

For those who wondered if the Women’s March on Washington would translate into a movement, the spontaneous protest on Sunday, which attracted hundreds if not thousands of people, was a positive sign.

Anjali Singh, who heard about the protest on Facebook last night and came with her friends, said she felt empowered by the rally and already plans to attend future ones. But still, she couldn’t help but to wonder if it was making a difference.

“I want to see action, I want to see policy changes,” she said.

Her friend, Zulakha Iqbal said she felt it was important to show up and make her voice heard.

“I’ll be protesting until the next election cycle - until at least 2018,” Iqbal said. “That’s the whole point, keeping up the momentum.”

After about twenty minutes of chanting in front of the Capitol, the protestors began to disperse for the evening.
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(The Guardian) Corker calls Trump's executive order 'poorly implemented'
--The chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Senator Bob Corker from Tennessee, criticized Trump’s executive order on immigration calling it “poorly implemented” and said it should be “immediately” reviewed:

“We all share a desire to protect the American people, but this executive order has been poorly implemented, especially with respect to green card holders,” Corker said, according to USA Today.

“The administration should immediately make appropriate revisions, and it is my hope that following a thorough review and implementation of security enhancements that many of these programs will be improved and reinstated” said Corker.
-Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/29/some-republicans-suggest-narrowing-trump-refugee-ban/97213116/
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(The Guardian) From deputy news editor Paul Owen at New York City’s rally on Sunday in Battery Park:

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Fauzia Khanani said her family had come from Uganda as refugees to Canada and then moved to the US when she was one year old.

She said she was protesting against the travel ban in New York’s Battery Park - within sight of the Statue of Liberty - because “I’m a Muslim, I’m a product of refugees, I’m a naturalised citizen. I’m appalled and scared and angry and I’m sad about what’s happening and the people that support it but when I come to a place like this,”she said of the protest, “it gives me hope”.

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Debbie Meisenzahl said she was at the protest in lower Manhattan “to stand up for my fellow New Yorkers against... I want to say a bad word right now. BS - I’ll say the short version.”

She said that Trump’s policy was disproportionate when there were “just a few bad apples”.

“That’s not what America stands for,” she said. “We’re all immigrants or descended from immigrants. Asked about the Statue of Liberty, whose image she was displaying on a poster, she said: “We stand with her.”

Meisenzahl said a Yemeni man had recently helped her and her father when he had to move out of his building and said of Trump’s travel ban on seven countries including Yemen: “It’s such a travesty.”

Irina Tevlova, who was carrying a sign that said “Our New York is immigrant New York”, said she had moved from Moscow to America and was now a student at Columbia University.

She said: “All the opportunities I’ve had in this country, I feel really lucky and grateful. I want to stand up for other immigrants.”
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(The Guardian) Interesting article by David French in National Review attempting to break down Trump’s executive order by noting that while the ban on green card holders is “madness”, most of Trump’s proposals are far more moderate than originally promised - and not that different from Obama’s refugee policies: So, what did Trump do? Did he implement his promised Muslim ban? No, far from it. He backed down dramatically from his campaign promises and instead signed an executive order dominated mainly by moderate refugee restrictions and temporary provisions aimed directly at limiting immigration from jihadist conflict zones.

... While the Syrian Civil War was raging, ISIS was rising, and refugees were swamping Syria’s neighbors and surging into Europe, the Obama administration let in less than a trickle of refugees. Only in the closing days of his administration did President Obama reverse course — in numbers insufficient to make a dent in the overall crisis, by the way — and now the Democrats have the audacity to tweet out pictures of bleeding Syrian children?

-Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444370/donald-trump-refugee-executive-order-no-muslim-ban-separating-fact-hysteria
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(The Guardian) Guardian reporter Sabrina Siddiqui at the White House rally in DC on Sunday against Trump’s travel ban:

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--Afnan Mossaad, a native of Texas whose parents are from Egypt, said she was in disbelief not just as a Muslim but as an American. “This is not America. These are not the American values that we all know and love”, she said. “It’s time that we speak up. We can’t let him redefine America,” she added of Trump.

“You’ve got to resist. When there’s injustice, you’ve got to stand up for what’s right. This is democracy.”

Heidi Obermeyer, a Colorado native working in DC, said her grandfather had fled Nazi persecution in Germany and went on to live the American Dream. “I think that it’s really important that the United States continue to be about standing up for freedom and opportunity for people around the world who are being persecuted,” she said.

Obermeyer said felt compelled to show her support for the protest in order “to send a message that America is a welcoming place even if the current administration isn’t.”

Dominick Pugliese, a history teacher at a local high school, directed his message not at Trump but at Paul Ryan.
“I know that he knows better than this,” Pugliese said of the House speaker, who backed Trump’s executive order on Friday. “People like [Steve] Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, the horsemen and horsewomen of the apocalypse, that’s one thing,” he said. “Paul Ryan knows America’s values and is not only being silent, but supporting this. It’s horrible.”

Heather Mcilhany said Trump’s ban was “ignorant and counterproductive.” “We have to stand up before someone comes for us,” she said. “Other than Native Americans, there’s none of us who did not come here as immigrants.”
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(The Guardian) New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman demanded in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security and Customs that they “describe specific steps they are taking to ensure compliance” with the Brooklyn federal court’s injunction on Trump’s executive order.

“My office is receiving alarming reports that DHS and CBP are not complying with the federal injunction and restraining order and are instead planning to remove from the United States individuals specifically protected by the terms of the federal court order”, said Schneiderman.
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(The Guardian) Republican congressman Justin Amash from Michigan says in a Facebook post it is “not lawful” to ban immigrants based on their nationality or place of birth.

--Many supporters and opponents of President Trump's executive order are conflating the terms "immigrant" (which encompasses green card holders), "nonimmigrant," and "refugee."

It's not lawful to ban immigrants because of "nationality, place of birth, or place of residence." This nondiscrimination provision comes from a 1965 law (8 U.S.C. 1152 Sec. 202(a)(1)(A)) that limits the 1952 law (8 U.S.C. 1182 Sec. 212(f)) that the president cites.

It's lawful to ban nonimmigrants for almost any reason. These are people who are temporarily visiting the United States, like tourists or students.

It's lawful to ban refugees for almost any reason. But banning all refugees from particular countries is harsh and unwise. We still should admit well-vetted persons.

Understanding these distinctions is important because supporters of President Trump's executive order continue to wrongly insist that the order is lawful and that President Obama did almost the same thing in 2011. And opponents of President Trump's executive order continue to wrongly insist that banning refugees violates the Constitution or the law.

President Trump's executive order covers not only refugees but also immigrants and nonimmigrants. As noted above, it's not lawful to discriminate in the issuance of an *immigrant* visa because of the person's "nationality, place of birth, or place of residence."

President Obama's action (which wasn't disclosed at the time) covered only refugees and, therefore, did not violate the Constitution or the law, even if one finds it objectionable for other reasons. (Rep. Justin Amash, R-MI - 29 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) This in from Associated Press, Canada will offer temporary residency permits to any trapped travelers: Canada’s immigration minister says the country will offer temporary residency permits to travelers who become stranded here by President Donald Trump’s order banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

Ahmed Hussen is a Somali refugee who was recently named Canada’s new immigration minister. He said Sunday no one is currently stranded at the country’s airports by the ban.
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(The Guardian) Homeland Secretary says ban doesn't apply to green-card holders
--US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced that green-card holders from the seven Muslim-majority countries affected by Trump’s executive order travel ban will be allowed to enter the country.

He said in a statement: In applying the provisions of the president’s executive order, I hereby deem the entry of lawful permanent residents to be in the national interest.

Accordingly, absent the receipt of significant derogatory information indicating a serious threat to public safety and welfare, lawful permanent resident status will be a dispositive factor in our case-by-case determinations.
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(The Guardian) The Day Thus Far

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--Thousands of people have turned up at rallies across the country to protest Donald Trump’s travel executive order. Huge crowds, including Chelsea Clinton, protested in Battery Park in New York City. Thousands turned out at Boston’s Copley Square. In DC, protesters chanted “shame” outside the White House. Hundreds are still protesting at LAX Airport in Los Angeles.
--Protests have also taken place in dozens of smaller cities and towns, including Rochester, NY, at Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport, Dulles Airport in Virginia, Albuquerque, NM and Pittsburgh, PA.
High-profile Republicans, including Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have criticized the executive order, calling for it to be immediately changed.
--Donald Trump called the pair “sadly weak on immigration” on Twitter after their public criticisms. Trump also released a statement declaring that his order is “not a Muslim ban” and “not about religion”, although all seven countries on the banned list are Muslim-majority.
--Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that green-card holders will be allowed entry into the country.
--People stranded by the ban have told stories of families and relationships being kept apart (often after years of waiting for visas to be approved) and job and school opportunities missed. Iranians stranded by US ban tell of jobs at risk and families in disarray.
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(The Guardian) (The Guardian's) US west coast video producer, Adithya Sambamurthy has been at San Francisco airport where protesters have reportedly blocked one of the departure gates, amid chants of “no ban, no wall” and “let them in”.

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(The Guardian) John Kasich, Ohio governor and one of the dozen or more candidates beaten by Trump to the Republican nomination, has called the order “ham-handed” and questioned why White House officials had allowed it to be issued.

He told the Washington Post: In probably many Arab capitals today, people are like, ‘What is America doing?’ Frankly, when I look at this, I think he was ill-served by his staff. If I were the president, I’d be very upset with the staff — that they didn’t say, ‘Hey, wait hold on a second.’ Because that’s what executives do. They have people around them that help them to understand, ‘Hey, your message is fine, but here is what’s going to come from it.’
-Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/29/kasich-calls-trumps-immigration-order-and-white-house-staff-ham-handed/?postshare=5861485731698690&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.34a9703c51c7
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