Nevertheless, this administration’s stated preference for Christians has only served to reinforce the notion that the executive order was anti-Muslim, while exacerbating sectarian tensions within the Arab community.
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Federal Judge James Robart ruled against government lawyers, who said USA states didn’t have the standing to challenge Trump’s order.
Government-backed Qatar Airways is one of a few Mideast airlines operating direct daily flights to multiple American cities.
Customs officials have reportedly told USA airlines they can carry on boarding banned travellers. Second, the word “surprise” in the headline applies mostly to the media and urban liberals who saw a large, emotional backlash against the Trump administration’s policy, and wrongly assumed it was a tectonic popular uprising. “So it’s not like you have to be a genius to figure out why it was included, he already had what he had in his mind”, Roble explains. Numerous countries where the 9/11 terrorists came from were conveniently left off the list, simply because they have oil and great wealth.
The immigration order even prompted a statement from former president Barack Obama, who “fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals due to their faith or religion”, a spokesperson said.
Kaifo said that thought has been racing through his mind this past week.
Internationally, the outcry in the United States was also seen in Europe.
“It’s not 100% a Muslim ban, the way I see it”, explains a Rochester resident who wanted to be identified as Mustafa.
Asserts AU’s brief, “The challenged Executive Order singles out Muslim-majority countries and subjects those who were born in or come from those countries (principally Muslims) to harsh legal disabilities and punishments, including exclusion, detention, and expulsion, based on their faith”. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in a separate legal action, filed a coordinated Freedom of Information Act request in all 50 states demanding to know how U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) offices are implementing President Trump’s immigration ban affecting seven countries and the court orders that struck it down.
Yet, seemingly some Christians and Jews from the same seven countries are or will be exempt from the executive order, according to a statement made by Trump and a travel memo posted to the website of the USA embassy in Tel Aviv. We can do better.
“[Trump] talked about keeping out terrorists and making Americans safer”, Jentleson says, “but instead this tears to pieces any notion of using soft power to enhance our national security”. “We have to put accountability to every party”, Mustafa adds.
Since last Friday’s executive order banning travel from seven Middle Eastern and African countries, United States lawyers and activists have speculated that Trump could extend the immigration ban to more than the current seven countries. “It is the principal catalyst for ISIS and other radical Islamic terrorist groups’ ability to carry out attacks that kill Americans”.
I’m terrified, heartbroken, and outraged by Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban”.
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That would obviously be ridiculous because, for one thing, there are lots of countries with Hispanics who face no such ban just as there are 42 Muslim-majority countries that are facing no re-examination of who heads for America.
