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Trump travel ban targeting Muslims will not make America safer

Trump travel ban targeting Muslims will not make America safer

The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the Trump administration’s policy barring people from several predominantly Muslim nations from entering the U.S., ruling that the travel ban was an appropriate use of executive power aimed at strengthening national security. In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed with the plaintiffs’ argument that the policy – which targets travelers from Iran, Libya, […]

US: Refugees From 11 Countries Will Face Extra Screening

US: Refugees From 11 Countries Will Face Extra Screening

The Trump administration is hardening refugee admissions to the United States by looking deeper into the background of applicants from 11 “high-risk” countries. Officials declined to name the “high-risk” countries during a call with reporters Monday to announce the changes, but they have been widely reported as: Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North Korea, Somalia, […]

US Taking Fewer Muslim Refugees

US Taking Fewer Muslim Refugees

The first four months of a U.S. refugee program wholly determined by the Trump administration have led to a dramatic decline in Muslim refugees coming to the United States, and a significant shift in where refugees are coming from, according to a VOA review of official data. From Oct. 1, 2017 to Jan. 25, 2018, […]

Appeals Court: Travel Ban Exceeds Trump’s Authority

Appeals Court: Travel Ban Exceeds Trump’s Authority

A U.S. federal appeals court says President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries exceeds his authority. However, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals placed its decision on hold Friday, pending a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. That means the ban remains in effect for now. Earlier this month, Trump’s […]

Trump’s Travel Ban Is A Muslim Ban, Plain and Simple

Jesus Was Not White. Here Is Why That Matters

In a decision that disheartened American Muslims across the country, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully implement its ban on Muslim immigration. It is not a final decision, and the Supreme Court will almost certainly revisit it in the coming months. Nevertheless, the decision marked a setback in the now […]

Trump’s foreign policy: Follow the money

Trump's foreign policy: Follow the money

US President Donald Trump began his term by banning refugees and immigrants from six Muslim-majority countries and pushing forward with plans to build a wall between the US and Mexico. The promise of new isolationist foreign policy prompted praise from his base for his commitment to “putting America first”. Then, in what seemed to be […]

Supreme Court asked to overturn Muslim ban ruling

Supreme Court asked to overturn Muslim ban ruling

The US Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to block a judge’s ruling that prevented President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban from being applied to grandparents of US citizens and refugees already being processed by resettlement agencies. In a court filing on Friday, the administration asked the justices to overturn Thursday’s decision by a US […]

Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team can’t get visas to come to the US

A group of teenage girls from Afghanistan who had planned to come to Washington, DC, for an international robotics competition won’t be coming after all, after the US State Department denied their visas. “This opportunity would allow us to invent, design, and create things that could possibly allow our community, our lives, and us,” the […]

Jewish groups criticize Supreme Court decision to allow parts of Trump’s travel ban

Jewish groups criticize Supreme Court decision to allow parts of Trump’s travel ban

ADL, HIAS welcome ruling limiting scope of executive order, but say even partial enforcement is deeply harmful By JTA Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees, welcomes hundreds to the Jewish Rally for Refugees in Battery Park, New York, on February 12, 2017. (Courtesy HIAS) The Jewish resettlement […]

The Muslim ban: Did Trump really win?

The Muslim ban: Did Trump really win?

On Monday, the US Supreme Court partially revived President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, agreeing to hear arguments in October and allowing the administration to suspend travel for some foreign nationals and refugees until it decides the case. Trump immediately took to Twitter to declare triumph, but many travellers he hoped to ban can still […]