Trump also suspended for 90 days the issuances of visas to all people – immigrants or nonimmigrants – seeking to enter the USA who are nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen. In addition, the executive order would expand so-called “extreme vetting” for individuals seeking to get into the United States from countries the administration associates most with terrorism.
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Vietnamese who helped the United States during the war there often found themselves and their families at enormous risk. But the Syrian and Iraqi people are suffering from the terrorism of the Islamic State (ISIS or IS), and the USA is now banning them from seeking refuge here. Many of them are coming from war-torn areas”, David Miliband, a former secretary of the United Kingdom, told “CBS This Morning: “Saturday”.
Arbeiter said he and his group have tried unsuccessfully to meet with the new Trump administration to discuss refugee policy. But he’s also using this time as an opportunity to clear up common misconceptions surrounding the refugee admissions process.
“The refugee changes that you’re looking to make, as it relates to persecuted Christians, do you see them as kind of a priority here?”
“He disguised it by making it look as if it’s only about certain countries but in fact those countries have been chosen so they can allow Christians from those countries to come to the United States based on the supposed exclusion for religious discrimination”, he observed.
Some exceptions will be made for members of “religious minorities”, which – in the countries targeted by the decree – would imply favorable treatment for Christians. “But if you were Christian, it was nearly impossible”.
Trump added that the US has taken in tens of thousands of people.
“The average is around 18 months”. Whereas the people from civil liberties and even experts of counter terrorism have condemned these orders of Trump, this act is a violation of the basic fundamentals of US Constitution. “It’s a tough process, including biometric testing”, Miliband said.
Under worldwide law, the USA can not ban asylum seekers from certain countries.
In the controversial executive order signed Friday afternoon, the president set the groundwork for a freeze on the U.S.’s refugee resettlement program.
“As a human being you feel like they need help, they need support”. Meanwhile, the talented Muslims from around the world will simply go elsewhere, and America will lose again.
The executive order has left travelers from those countries not being able to travel to the United States despite holding a valid USA visa, and has seen many who’ve arrived in U.S. airports being detained. Unlike in Europe, the United States already vets refugees thoroughly before arrival. One of the detainees was later released.
Karmi explains he was a driver for U. S. Forces stationed in Afghanistan.
As for the wall, Trump’s executive order would shift money appropriated for other purposes toward construction of this pointless, indecent, and ugly symbol, but the funds provided are far from suffiicient. “History will judge where America’s leaders stood today”, said Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration.
“Trump’s latest executive order is likely to hurt the people most in need: those fleeing violence and terrorism – and on Holocaust Remembrance Day, no less”, said Grace Meng, senior U.S. researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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The 54 deaths over the course of 2016 brought the total number of fatalities caused by a Muslim-American extremists since 9/11 to 123 – comparatively, more than 240,000 people were murdered over the same period of time, according to the report.
