After Travel Ban Ruling, Return to 9th Circuit Court Would be Next
The first time a U.S. federal court issued a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the government filed an appeal the next day. After Wednesday’s court ruling against Trump’s second executive order, which temporarily suspends refugee admissions and the issuance of new visas to people from six countries, an appeal to the […]
Trump’s travel ban: How could Hawaii block it?
Just hours before President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was set to go into effect, a federal judge in Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order, putting the ban on hold. The ban would have restricted entry of citizens of six Muslim-majority nations into the US for 90 days and temporarily suspended the refugee programme from […]
Trump’s Immigration Ban and the Loss of Our Democracy
I stood dismayed, the cold piercing my body, staring at a bleak landscape. It was 2002. I had just ended my first interrogation session of an al-Qaeda terrorist at one of our “black sites.” I wanted, like all my colleagues, to find and destroy the Islamic terrorists who had attacked my country. And I knew, […]
What the Bible says about welcoming refugees
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that placed a stay on refugees from seven Muslim majority countries. Entrance of refugees from Syria, however, will be banned for the next 120 days. Two days prior to…
Khan Wants Trump to Extend US Travel Ban to Pakistan
Pakistan’s leading opposition politician, Imran Khan, is urging President Donald Trump to ban Pakistanis from entering the United States, after he suspended immigration from seven Muslim majority countries. The controversial U.S. ban currently applies to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Addressing a rally in the central Pakistani town of Sahiwal on Sunday, […]
Americans raise $600,000 to rebuild burned Texas mosque
A Texas community has rallied behind its Muslim residents after their mosque burnt to the ground shortly after President Donald Trump signed into effect a “Muslim ban” on refugees and others from seven Muslim-majority countries. Following the news that their house of worship in southeast Texas was completely destroyed early on Saturday, the Islamic Centre […]
International Reaction to Trump’s Refugee Ban Begins
International reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to refugees and citizens from seven mostly-Muslim countries has begun. In addition to barring residents of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen from entering the U.S. for 90 days, the Trump executive order put a permanent ban on admission of Syrian refugees […]
Zarif: Trump’s Muslim ban ‘great gift to extremists’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has said US President Donald Trump’s decision to ban arrivals from seven Muslim-majority countries was “a great gift to extremists”, as Tehran takes retaliatory action on US passport holders. “Collective discrimination aids terrorist recruitment by deepening faultlines exploited by extremist demagogues to swell their ranks, Zarif posted on Twitter early […]
US judge blocks Trump’s order to ban Muslim travellers
A federal judge has granted an emergency stay of President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban the entry of people from several Muslim countries into the United States. The temporary measure allows travellers who have already landed in the US with valid visas to stay in the country. US District Judge Ann Donnelly’s ruling late […]
Two girls can barely hold back tears as they wait to find out if their Iraqi mother will be allowed into the United States
Jack Smith, a reporter for Mic, has been on the ground at JFK National Airport in New York as thousands of protesters call for the release of detained citizens coming from Middle Eastern countries. Earlier in the week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned travel into the United States from Syria and […]