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 […]
Photos: Immigrant Ban Protests at American Airports
On January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking all migration to the U.S. from seven chosen Muslim countries, including immigration by asylum seekers, refugees, persons with dual citizenship, and those employed by the U.S. military as contractors or other staff. As a result, protests took place in major cities across America for […]
Trump’s anti-immigration orders are ‘inhuman,’ says Newark archbishop
One of the most prominent Catholic leaders in North Jersey took a stand against President Donald Trump and his anti-immigration executive orders that call for closing the borders and building a wall along Mexico. The Archbishop of Newark, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, said in a statement Friday the president’s actions were “not rational acts,”
Trump’s Muslim ban is a dangerous distraction
On January 27, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to make good on his promised Muslim Ban. One of the primary provisions of the order is a ban on visas to the US to nationals from seven countries: Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, which are all Muslim-majority nations.
Donald Trump’s #MuslimBan sparks outrage and fear
Disgraceful, a travesty, racist. These were some of the words used to describe a measure signed off by US President Donald Trump that suspends immigration from several Muslim-majority countries, and indefinitely bans Syrians – including refugees – from entering. Closing off his first week in office, Trump signed the order on Friday at the Pentagon, […]