He said he’s looking to the government to provide more information about how many refugees have been detained since Trump signed an executive order Friday that suspended the State Department’s Refugee Assistance Program and barred visa entry from seven countries, including Iraq and Syria. His executive order blocking refugees and immigrants from seven primarily Muslim nations has clearly had that effect.
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Lawyers for legal immigrants charged Monday that many are still being detained at USA airports three days after President Trump signed an executive order suspending immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. A spokesperson said the company did not have advance notice of Trump’s Muslim ban, noting that the compensation plan was conceived today and was still being worked out. The United States is a nation of immigrants, and we should be proud of that”, the Facebook chief executive wrote in a Facebook post. Donald Trump was sworn in on January 20. Green card holders, who have already gone through extensive vetting by the United States as part of a legal pathway to citizenship, were denied entry at a number of the nation’s worldwide airports for 24-hours. Although the executive order banned their entry, judges in four US cities with major global airports ruled that those individuals could not be deported and they were allowed to enter the country. America has always been the land of the free and home of the fearless.
“Religious liberty has been, and always will be, a bedrock principle of our country and no president can change that truth”, they said.
There is a ban on all refugees entering the USA for 120 days.
Charles Koch, the influential billionaire Republican Party donor and industrialist, also pronounced his first public split with the Trump administration. “Like many of you, I’m concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump”.
“Deteriorating conditions in certain countries due to war, strife, disaster, and civil unrest increase the likelihood that terrorists will use any means possible to enter our country”, the executive action reads.
Through the order, Trump temporarily suspended the entire United States refugee program that applies indefinitely to the resettlement of refugees from war-torn Syria. It also overlooks the hundreds of other people with legal visas or refugee status who were prevented from boarding flights to the U.S.
The order sparked protests at several United States airports, including New York’s Kennedy and Chicago’s O’Hare and those in Minneapolis and Dallas-Forth Worth.
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“There’s no transparency to the process”, NY attorney general Eric Schneiderman said on CBS This Morning, who, along with 16 other attorneys general, is planning to challenge the orders.
