The ban bars people from countries whose citizens have not attacked Americans in the United States.
"Even though there's a lot of Muslim-Somalis in Minneapolis, when Donald Trump came himself, he kind of finger-pointed when he was running". He had his reasons.
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum calls Trump's immigration order a "shock" and asks Washington to reconsider.
Trump says there have been very few problems with the travel ban while reminding the world that it was "a big part of my campaign".
The same document included an allocation for 35,000 refugees from Africa, primarily from Congo, Somalia and Eritrea - the latter two being majority Muslim.
About 85,000 refugees were admitted to the U.S.in 2016, according to the Department of State's Refugee Processing Center.
Republican lawmakers were largely silent about Trump's criticism of Robart, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2004. Before that, his fame rested on his fostering and condoning police brutality - most notably after four officers pumped 41 rounds into Amadou Diallo, who was peacefully sitting on the stoop of his building, unarmed and doing nothing wrong.
The decision came on a day that attorneys from four states were in courts challenging Trump's executive order. As David Mednicoff of University of Massachusetts Amherst observed, "Trump has promised to renegotiate the multilateral treaty that stopped Iran's move toward nuclear weapons". They have welcomed refugees and immigrants into their country.
There are indeed many cases of awful violence against Christians in many parts of the world. He loudly proclaimed, "It's not a Muslim ban".
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The vote was the "biggest blow yet" in an effort to "demonize the oil and gas industry", the group said in a statement . Talking on MSNBC yesterday, Sen. "Hi, I'm the new guy", Tillerson said, to laughs. "But I certainly welcome them all".
Only the most overt forms of this will be against Muslims, African Americans, and Latinos. "I think they should either get with the program or they can go".
That would obviously be ridiculous because, for one thing, there are lots of countries with Hispanics who face no such ban just as there are 42 Muslim-majority countries that are facing no re-examination of who heads for America.
It is recommended that foreign nationals from the seven above listed countries not travel outside the U.S.at this time, regardless of status. Conversely, Saudi Arabia, the country with 16 citizens who carried out the September 11 carnage, is not on the list.
Amazingly, some questioned whether Trump deliberately left off countries where he has business interests. The response to his inhumane edict was immediate and effective.
"You saw them try to call it a Muslim ban at first, and then you realize that 90 percent of Muslims around the world are exempt from the ban", he said. The order severely affects the social fabric of our nation, dividing and pitting one American against the other. It causes pain and rips apart families.
The writer is an attorney teaching constitutional law and political philosophy. It does, to be sure, serve one goal - a political objective - satisfying Trump's base.
Trump said the United States has taken "necessary action" in recent days to protect religious liberty in the United States, referring to his immigration action.
Protesters hold signs in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on immigration and travel outside Terminal 4 at JFK airport in Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. January 29, 2017. Have you no shame? In 2015, as the war in Syria raged on and as Europe admitted hundreds of thousands, the number rose to 2,192, and a year ago 15,479 of the 85,000 refugees admitted to America came from Syria.
