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, […]
Trump’s Travel Ban Is A Muslim Ban, Plain and Simple
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 […]
The US Supreme Court has empowered Trump’s Islamophobia
On Monday, December 4, the United States Supreme Court allowed the third version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to take immediate effect. The latest rendition of what is broadly called the “Muslim Ban”, a campaign promise that Trump delivered on three times during the first 10 months of his presidency, limits entry of nationals […]
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 […]
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?
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 […]
Trump claims ‘victory’ over travel ban ruling
President Donald Trump has welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to allow his travel and refugee bans to be partly reinstated. Earlier this year Trump ordered a 90-day ban on people travelling from six mainly Muslim countries and a 120-day ban on refugees. Injunctions preventing them are now to be partly lifted … a move Trump […]
Timeline of Trump’s ‘travel ban’
Washington (dpa) – Donald Trump rose to prominence as a political candidate with harsh comments on immigration, refugees and Muslims, and as president has attempted to implement his policies through executive orders. December 2, 2015: A US-born Pakistani-American and his Pakistani wife shoot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, after pledging allegiance to Islamic […]
Refugee advocacy groups slam ‘Muslim Ban’ ruling
Washington, DC – Refugee advocacy groups have raised concerns after the US Supreme Court partially reinstated the Trump administration’s ban on travellers from six predominantly Muslim countries – commonly known as the “Muslim ban” – and all refugees, until it reviews the ban in October. “I am deeply disappointed by the court’s decision … the […]
Thanks to Trump, a Father’s Day without a father | Editorial
Take a moment tomorrow, at your barbecue or pancake breakfast, to remember a 13-year-old New Jersey boy spending Father’s Day without his deported dad. Joel Massie, a Metuchen 7th grader and American citizen, will have no more happy Father’s Days, thanks to President Trump’s immigration agents. They just put his dad – a New Jersey […]