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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 (883 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) Judge says Iranian barred from entry to US must be returned
--An Iranian man who holds a US visa who was barred entry to LA airport in the wake of the Trump ban has won a court injunction “staying his removal from the US, and ordering his release from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security”.

Ali Khoshbakhti Vayeghan brought the case at the US district court in California after being sent back to Dubai. From there he was to be removed to Iran.

But the federal judge Dolly Gee found that the ban “violates the Establishment Clause, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and his rights to Equal Protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution”.

It ordered the the homeland department to allow him back into the US.
-Read more: https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/vayeghan_-_order_re_tro.pdf
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--Federal judge Dolly Gee in LA orders return of Ali Vayeghan who'd been sent back to Iran yesterday even though he's a legal perm resident (Josie Huang, KPCC Los Angeles - 29 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) Here is a picture from Gareth Rogers showing the protest at Detroit airport.

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This was sent to (the Guardian's Amber Jameison) via Twitter showing the scene at Bradley international airport near Hartford, Connecticut.

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But not everyone reading the blog is of one mind. An email from a reader signing off as Georgina Heinrich says that “most working people” in the US welcome the crackdown and that it was “about time the US looked after its own border control”. Plenty to debate there.
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(The Guardian) Immigration orders a 'massive success', says official

An administration official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, has called the orders a “massive success story”. The official was reported as saying: Nothing has changed. All three of President Trump’s executive orders remain in full effect and all three of President Trump’s executive orders are being enforced by the departments of state, homeland security, justice and all other relative agencies across the federal government. So it really is a massive success story in terms of implementation on every single level.
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(The Guardian) A dark moment in US history, says Archbishop of Chicago

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--Very strong statement condemning the orders from the Archbishop of Chicago, , Cardinal Blase Cupich, who says it is a “dark moment” contrary to American values. The orders are “cruel and chaotic”, he says.

This weekend proved to be a dark moment in US history. The executive order to turn away refugees and to close our nation to those, particularly Muslims, fleeing violence, oppression and persecution is contrary to both Catholic and American values. Have we not repeated the disastrous decisions of those in the past who turned away other people fleeing violence, leaving certain ethnicities and religions marginalized and excluded? We Catholics know that history well, for, like others, we have been on the other side of such decisions.

These actions impose a sweeping and immediate halt on migrants and refugees from several countries, people who are suffering, fleeing for their lives. Their design and implementation have been rushed, chaotic, cruel and oblivious to the realities that will produce enduring security for the United States. They have left people holding valid visas and other proper documents detained in our airports, sent back to the places some were fleeing or not allowed to board planes headed here. Only at the eleventh hour did a federal judge intervene to suspend this unjust action.

-Read more: https://www.archchicago.org/statements/-/asset_publisher/a2jOvEeHcvDT/content/statement-statement-of-cardinal-blase-j-cupich-archbishop-of-chicago-on-the-executive-order-on-refugees-and-migrants?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archchicago.org%2Fstatements%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_a2jOvEeHcvDT%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-3%26p_p_col_pos%3D1%26p_p_col_count%3D2
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(The Guardian) Michael Lynch, a (Guardian) reader, has just landed in O’Hare Chicago airport from Heathrow and reports a large crowd. Perhaps inspired by the archbishop’s comments ...

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(The Guardian) The Indonesian foreign ministry has echoed comments by John McCain earlier that the Trump ban could damage the global fight against terror.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, is not one of the seven Muslim countries affected by Trump’s order. But ministry spokesman Armanatha Nasir said on Monday that Indonesia “deeply regrets” the decision and believes it will have a “negative impact on global efforts to fight terrorism” and the handling of refugees.

It is wrong to associate radicalism and terrorism with a particular religion. Efforts to combat terrorism must be carried out by promoting international cooperation, including in addressing the root causes of terrorism.
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(The Guardian) Hollywood has voiced its disapproval of the Trump orders as film and television industry figures gathered for the Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles.

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Mahershala Ali, who won the award for best supporting actor for his role in Moonlight, gave an emotional speech about acceptance and being a Muslim, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus called the ban “un-American”.

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-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/29/sag-awards-2017-hidden-figures-stranger-things-political-speeches
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(The Guardian) The chaotic execution of this [Executive Order] … raises serious concerns in regard to whether taxpayer dollars were efficiently and effectively spent, rather than wasted on unwarranted and unjust detentions of lawful permanent residents (LPRs) and others who posed no security threat, and who had already been authorized by the United States Government to enter our country. We are deeply concerned by [Customs and Border Protection’s] failure to respond to time-sensitive Congressional oversight inquiries and allegations that the agency refused to permit attorneys to meet with detained LPRs at O’Hare and other airports across the country. - Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-IL

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(The Guardian) In Australia, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull refused to criticise the Trump administration’s immigration policies when he was quizzed on the issue on Monday.

Australia is hoping to resettle detained asylum seekers from its camps on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus Island to the US. Australia will take refugees from Costa Rica in exchange.
-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/30/malcolm-turnbull-refuses-to-denounce-trumps-travel-ban
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(The Guardian) Koch brothers signal opposition to Muslim ban and border tax
--The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have signalled their opposition to two of Donald Trump’s most controversial policies.

The brothers’ campaign group Americans for Prosperity have launched a bid to sink the Trump border tax plan which aims to raise millions from import duty to pay for a wall along the Mexican border.

On Sunday the group also challenged Trump’s intention to stop the movement of people from countries with large Muslim populations from traveling to the United States.

“The travel ban is the wrong approach and will likely be counterproductive,” said an official of the Koch network, which refused to endorse Trump during his presidential campaign.
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(The Guardian) The travel orders are causing headaches for the world’s airlines. (Reuters)

--Emirates said earlier that it has changed pilot and flight attendant rosters on flights to the US following the signing of the order so that its crew did not become embroiled in the immigration problems. It had “made the necessary adjustments to our crewing, to comply with the latest requirements,”, an Emirates spokeswoman told Reuters.
--Japan Airlines said on Monday it has begun screening passengers from the seven Muslim-majority countries affected by the travel ban before their departure for the US.
--Etihad Airways, which is based in Abu Dhabi, said the airline had “taken steps to ensure there will be no issues for flights departing over the coming weeks”.
--Nicoley Baublies, from the German cabin crew union UFO, said the move meant uncertainty for Lufthansa because it had “always ensured it has very diverse crews, with staff of different nationalities and that means that we are for the first time in decades having to look at where people come from”. A spokesman for Lufthansa said on Sunday it was too early to comment.
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(The Guardian) Protests at Albuquerque airport.

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(The Guardian) The financial markets have been in subdued mood today amid concerns about the Trump travel ban.

--Japan’s Nikkei widened losses to 0.7% as demand for the safe-haven yen weighed on exporters.
--Australian shares on the ASX200 index tumbled more than 1%, while New Zealand pulled back 0.6%.
--European markets are set to slip when trading opens later this morning, according to online trading platform IG.

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Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC in Sydney, said the travel ban added to concerns about the Trump administration’s policy settings. The thinking is that if carries through with building the border wall and banning Muslims from the US, he might also push through his promised 45% tariffs on Chinese imports. Most experts agree that would be a devastating blow for the world’s economy.

Spooner said: The new US immigration policy contributes to background concerns about the potential for escalating tensions and scope for retaliation on travel and trade policy. However, from a market perspective, the policy is not at this stage likely to have any material financial or commercial impact as it currently stands.
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