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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:10 PM Jan 2017

WH: We did "remarkably professional/seamless job" implementing new visas policy-"Few Ramifications"




President Trump’s executive order barring refugees from entering the United States and halting entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — set off a cascade of reaction around the world.

Social media shook with emotion. Headlines were rewritten around the world. Legal scholars debated the order’s scope. But its most immediate effect could be quantified on a human scale: refugees and other immigrants from the seven countries, some on their way to the United States on Friday when Mr. Trump signed the order, who were no longer able to enter the United States.

Here are some of their stories.
Hameed Khalid Darweesh, Iraq

Mr. Darweesh, a husband and father of three who worked for the United States military in Iraq for about a decade, was detained after arriving at Kennedy Airport on Friday night. He was granted a special immigrant visa on Jan. 20. When he filed for it, he said he had been directly targeted because of his work for the U.S. as an interpreter, engineer and contractor....
other stories at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/us-immigration-ban.html?src=twr&mtrref=disq.us&gwh=DC8A62212CCE853923F38F3ED0665AAE&gwt=pay


Chaos Breaks Out in the Wake of Trump's "Muslim Ban”
Live updates.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/trump-executive-order-immigration-refugee-muslim-ban-protest
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-executive-order-could-block-legal-residents-from-returning-to-america
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-visa-ban-also-applies-to-citizens-with-dual-nationality-state-department-says-1485628654




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WH: We did "remarkably professional/seamless job" implementing new visas policy-"Few Ramifications" (Original Post) kpete Jan 2017 OP
Nice alternative fact. dalton99a Jan 2017 #1
War is peace Chasstev365 Jan 2017 #2
Ignorance is strength etherealtruth Jan 2017 #5
Very Orwellian of them. highplainsdem Jan 2017 #3
The flash mob forming at JFK may disagree with that assessment Ruby the Liberal Jan 2017 #4
i hope they shut the whole airport down. once this disrupts the lives of the white privledged Takket Jan 2017 #7
'Sez' who? mfcorey1 Jan 2017 #6
It has been seamless. Working just as planned. underpants Jan 2017 #8

Takket

(21,573 posts)
7. i hope they shut the whole airport down. once this disrupts the lives of the white privledged
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:19 PM
Jan 2017

they won't find Trump or his policies so amusing anymore.

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