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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 (882 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 30 2017, 02:43 AM Post #106 |
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(The Guardian) Protests have taken place across the US on Sunday night. Here is an estimate of the numbers involved in the protests at the main locations (thanks to Reuters and AP): --Manhattan – 10,000 --Washington DC – 8,000 (plus about 200 at Dulles airport) --Copley Square, Boston – 10,000 --LA international airport – 4,000 --Detroit Metropolitan airport – 3,000 --O’Hare international, Chicago – hundreds (including 150 pro bono lawyers) --Houston downtown – 500 --Indianapolis international airport – 600 --Seattle – 3,000 --Dallas-Fort Worth international airport – 800 |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:04 PM Post #107 |
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(The Guardian) Good (day) and welcome to our continuing coverage of the fallout from Donald Trump’s executive order on refugee admission and travel from some Muslim-majority countries. After a weekend of mass protests and disruption - with people detained at airports, refused entry to planes and removed from the United States - legal challenges continue to be launched, challenging the validity of the order. “We have a constitutional crisis,” Congressman Don Beyer, a Democrat from Virginia, wrote on Twitter on Sunday after Customs and Border Patrol officials refused to release people from Dulles Airport, despite federal court rulings that temporarily stayed the Trump order. Having government and public officials abide by the law and court orders is one of the hallmarks of the nation, notes Trevor Timm. Trump is standing by the ban and the decision to implement it immediately, with no warning: --If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the "bad" would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad "dudes" out there! (Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - 30 Jan. 2017) John Kelly, the new secretary for homeland security, released a statement clarifying that green-card holders, who are legal permanent US residents, will not be affected by the travel ban. Today, among other things, we’ll be keeping our eye on Trump spokesman Sean Spicer’s 1.30pm ET press briefing, where journalists will be likely quiz him on the ban and the administration’s handling of it. |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:07 PM Post #108 |
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(The Guardian) Coffee giant Starbucks announced overnight a promise to hire 10,000 refugees, in response to Trump’s executive order travel ban. As Adam Vaughan and Dominic Rushe report: Howard Schultz, the coffee chain’s chief executive, said he had “deep concern” about the president’s order and would be taking “resolute” action, starting with offering jobs to refugees. “We are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business,” he told employees in a strongly-worded note. He added that the move was to make clear the company “will neither stand by, nor stand silent, as the uncertainty around the new administration’s actions grows with each passing day.” -Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/30/trump-travel-ban-starbucks-hire-10000-refugees |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:11 PM Post #109 |
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(The Guardian) Helena Smith, our correspondent in Greece, the county long on the frontline of the refugee crisis, reports on Syrians being the biggest victims of Trump’s travel ban.![]() --The implications of the freeze may still be unclear but of one thing human rights groups are sure: Syrian refugees fleeing atrocity and war are among the biggest losers not least because the U.S. has resettled more Syrian refugees to date than any other country. “What is very clear cut is that Syrian refugees have now lost one of their very few tickets out,” Amnesty International’s deputy director for Europe and Central Asia, Gauri Van Gulik, told the Guardian. “The U.S. has been the biggest re-settler country. For Syrians who had some hope of being resettled, that hope is now shut. It’s a huge loss,” said Van Gulik. Around 800,000 Syrians fled to Europe via Greece at the height of the conflict in 2015. The vast majority made their way further north until borders along the Balkan corridor were closed and thousands were subsequently stranded in Greece. |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:13 PM Post #110 |
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(The Guardian) Over the weekend a Facebook post by data scientist Nazanin Zinouri, who is Iranian and lives in South Carolina, went viral after Zinouri wrote about being unallowed to return to the US because of the travel ban, although she has an apartment, job, friends, dog and life here. She expanded on her post in an article in the Washington Post, discussing her experience after being banned from boarding a flight in Dubai to the United States: A million thoughts rushed through my mind, from the practical to the philosophical: What happens to Dexter [her dog] now? He is waiting for his mom to come home. Who is going to take him for doctor visits? What happens to my car parked at the long-term lot at the Atlanta airport? What happens to all the stuff I had collected during 6½ years living in the United States? What about my lease? Will my landlord think I just left town? What happens to my job, my life, my American Dream? I flew back to Tehran to stay with my family and figure out what to do next, stung by the realization that as far as the U.S. government is concerned, my life doesn’t matter. Nothing I worked for all these years matters. -Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/30/i-tried-to-fly-home-to-the-u-s-friday-president-trumps-new-ban-meant-i-couldnt/?utm_term=.fef7fe38650a |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:21 PM Post #111 |
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(The Guardian) There’s been a large number of protests against the travel ban arranged in the UK today, including evening events towns and cities as far aparts as Aberdeen, Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York. From Guardian reporter Frances Perraudin in Manchester: The crowd is gathering in Manchester’s Albert Square outside the city’s town hall. Over 2,600 people have said they will attend tonight’s demonstration against Donald Trump’s immigration directive. The site for the demonstration is a stone’s throw from Lincoln Square, where a statue of US president Abraham Lincoln was erected to give thanks to Lancashire’s cotton workers for “their fight for the abolition of slavery during the American Civil War”. (An economic blockade of slave-picked cotton from the southern states caused massive unemployment in the region’s cotton industry.) Dean Smith, a 24-year-old sports journalist, is the main organiser of this evening’s demo. Smith says it was a tweet by the writer David Slack that prompted him to act on his horror at Trump’s directive. The tweet reads: “Remember sitting in history, thinking ‘If I was alive then, I would’ve…’ You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.” |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:23 PM Post #112 |
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![]() --Dump Trump posters at the foot of the Aneurin Bevan statue in Cardiff ahead of protest. (Steven Morris, The Guardian - 30 Jan. 2017) ![]() --Organiser of the Manchester #TrumpBan demo, 24-year-old Dean Smith, has never organised a protest before. Says Trump's actions are vile. (Frances Perraudin, The Guardian - 30 Jan. 2017) |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:47 PM Post #113 |
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(The Guardian) Sean Spicer starts off press briefing by saying Trump has spoken with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau to give his condolences over the shooting at a Quebec mosque where six people were killed. Spicer notes that the “tragic” event is a reminder “why the president is taking steps to be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to keeping citizens safe.” That’s presumably a reference to Trump’s executive order banning travel to citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:53 PM Post #114 |
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(The Guardian) “There’s been a lot of misreporting this week about what this memo does and does not do,” said Sean Spicer, referring to the changes made to the National Security Council, where controversial advisor Steve Bannon is now on the panel and the director of intelligence and chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff will not always attend the principals committee. “This idea there’s been a change or a downgrade is utter nonsense,” says Bannon. Spicers says they called several outlets “who had been misreporting this memo to explain what it means” yesterday. Trump will now amend the memo to add the CIA into the memo, says Spicer, noting that the Obama administration had not included CIA in their own similar memo. |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 02:55 PM Post #115 |
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(The Guardian) Spicer talks about how Trump is concerned about Isis and terrorism, and the “the United States must take decisive action and the president is taking the right steps.” He mentions the calls that Trump has taken with foreign leaders, including Middle Eastern leaders, over the weekend. “Notably he did all this in the face of supreme obstructionism from Democrats in the Senate,”, says Spicer, saying 17 nominees still await confirmation. “These cabinet members are all unbelievably qualified and will all be confirmed by the Senate, and Democrats know this,” says Spicer. |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 03:00 PM Post #116 |
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(The Guardian) Spicer speaking about the executive order about regulation, saying it will help small business. But no mention of the travel ban before heading to questions from the press. |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 03:08 PM Post #117 |
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(The Guardian) When asked about the travel ban affecting seven Muslim-majority countries being more extreme than any action made by the Obama administration. “We’ve going to put the safety of Americans first... We’re not going to wait until we get attacked and figure out how it’s going to happen again,” says Spicer. “That’s the key point in this: how do we keep ahead of threats?” adds Spicer. “That’s what the president has done... putting America’s safety and security first and foremost,” says Spicer. “His view is not to wait to get ahead of the curb... we don’t know when that hour comes, we don’t know when the individual comes to do us harm.” |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 03:14 PM Post #118 |
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(The Guardian) Sean Spicer: 'I feel confident' re legal challenges over travel ban --Journalists quiz Sean Spicer about legal action being taken against Trump’s executive order. Spicer mentions the Brooklyn federal court decision on Saturday evening, and adds: “We won’t have to prevail in that case, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s about people being deported. The process was never about that”. Spicer says that in a 24-hour period over the weekend, 109 were stopped for additional screening out of 325,000, a number he saw as minor. “Majority of Americans agree with the president. They recognize the steps he’s taken,” he says. Journalists note that the Brooklyn federal court is just one of four federal court actions that have already ruled against parts of the order, but Spicer says he’s not concerned. “I don’t think any of the others are pertaining... all of the forces and actions protecting the order are in place now... I feel confident,” says Spicer. |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 03:17 PM Post #119 |
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(The Guardian) He’s back! A statement from Barack Obama about the mass rallies of people protesting around the country all weekend over Trump’s travel ban executive order.![]() --Obama statement on the protests of Trump's Executive Order (Sam Stein, Huffington Post - 30 Jan. 2017) |
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| Webster | Jan 30 2017, 03:41 PM Post #120 |
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(The Guardian) Spicer again speaking about the travel ban. “This is about the safety of America. This is why the majority of Americans agree with the president... these steps are frankly common sense steps to make sure we’re never looking at the rear-view mirror asking ‘we should have done something’”, says Spicer. Does Trump have anything to say to protesters and those who the travel ban affects, a reporter asks. “I think it’s a shame that people were inconvenienced, obviously, but at the end of the day we’re talking about a couple of hours,” says Spicer, saying he’d rather people had to wait at airports than encounter terrorism. “Being able to come to America is a privilege, not a right,” says Spicer. “We have to wait in lines too,” says Spicer. When quizzed if other countries would be added to the list of seven, Spicer says: “We don’t have to look at the families of the Boston marathon, the San Bernardino, to ask if we can go further. He adds that it’s possible extra countries will be added to the list. |
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