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DonViejo's JournalPat Tillman's widow slams Trump's travel ban: 'This is not what he died for'
BRAD REED
30 JAN 2017 AT 09:31 ET
Marie Tillman, the widow of the late Army Ranger and former NFL player Pat Tillman, has taken a stance against President Donald Trump’s travel ban for citizens of seven different Muslim-majority countries.
Mediaite notes that Marie Tillman over the weekend wrote a Facebook post expressing her disgust with the president’s travel ban executive order, and said that this was not the sort of thing her late husband, who famously ended his NFL career to join the Army after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, would have supported.
“Today I am deeply saddened by the news of the executive order banning immigration,” wrote Tillman, whose late husband died in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan in 2004. “This is not the country he dreamed of, not what he served for and not what he died for.”
Despite her sadness, however, Tillman nonetheless found reason for hope, as she said many of the military veterans and their spouses whom the Pat Tillman Foundation has helped through scholarships have also spoken out against the order.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/pat-tillmans-widow-slams-trumps-travel-ban-this-is-not-what-he-died-for/
UN rights chief says Trump's travel ban is illegal
Source: Reuters
30 JAN 2017 AT 10:22 ET
Discriminating against people on the basis of their nationality is illegal, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Twitter on Monday, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on nationals from seven Middle Eastern countries.
“Discrimination on nationality alone is forbidden under #humanrights law,” Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said in a tweet sent by his office. “The U.S. ban is also mean-spirited, and wastes resources needed for proper counter-terrorism.”
After a weekend of confusion, protests and worldwide outcry over Trump’s sweeping immigration order, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said late on Sunday that legal permanent residents, holders of so-called green cards, would be admitted, subject to security checks.
(Reporting by Tom Miles, editing by Stephanie Nebehay)
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/un-rights-chief-says-trumps-travel-ban-is-illegal/
Trump adviser Stephen Miller: Travel ban intended to protect America from 'bigots'
Source: RawStory
BRAD REED
30 JAN 2017 AT 08:55 ET
Although White House adviser Stephen Miller has quickly emerged as a fall guy for this past weekend’s chaos at major American airports, he nonetheless appeared on CBS’s This Morning to paint the Trump administration’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries as a massive success.
Miller also said that the Trump administration will, over the next month, develop screening procedures to ensure that only foreigners who “love” America are allowed into the country.
“We’re going to take the next 30 days to develop a new set of screening protocols to try and ensure that people entering our country, particularly on a permanent basis, truly love and support the United States of America,” he said. “There’ll be a 60-day period where countries will be asked to comply with the new directives. Countries that are in compliance will have regular, ordinary and routine migration with the United States.”
People who are permanent legal residents of the United States — a.k.a., green card holders — are already subjected to a meticulous vetting process to ensure that they have valid reasons for being in the country, that they have no criminal history, and that they pose no danger to national security.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-adviser-stephen-miller-travel-ban-intended-to-protect-america-from-bigots/
Trump Claims Schumer Shed 'Fake Tears' At Sunday Press Conference
Source: Talking Points Memo
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JANUARY 30, 2017, 10:29 AM EDT
Following criticism of his executive order barring visas from some predominantly Muslim countries from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), President Donald Trump hit back by mocking the senator.
Trump claimed Monday morning that Schumer did not genuinely cry during a Sunday press conference.
"I noticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with fake tears," Trump said during a meeting at the White House with small business leaders. "I'm going to ask him, 'Who is his acting coach?' Because I know him very well. I don't see him as a cryer. If he is, he’s a different man. There's about a 5 percent chance that it was real but I think they were fake tears."
Schumer choked up as he condemned Trump's order on Sunday, telling reporters that the ban is "mean-spirited and un-American."
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-schumer-fake-tears
Schumer Tears Up At Presser Denouncing Trump's Travel Ban
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JANUARY 30, 2017, 9:46 AM EDT
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) condemned President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from the U.S. at a Sunday press conference, where the senator choked up as he discussed the order.
"This executive order was mean-spirited and un-American," Schumer said with tears welling in his eyes. "It was implemented in a way that created chaos and confusion across the country, and it will only serve to embolden and inspire those around the globe who will do us harm.”
Schumer said that Democrats would introduce legislation to reverse Trump's order and said he would "fight with every fiber of my being until these orders are overturned."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scumer-tears-trump-immigration-ban
Former Bush CIA Director: Trump Executive Order 'Inarguably Has Made Us Less Safe'
Source: Mediaite
National security experts, including the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President George W. Bush, criticized Donald Trump‘s executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim countries as damaging to the security of the United States.
“We’ve got good people who will work hard at it, but there is no question that this has already created an irretrievable cost,” Michael Hayden told The Washington Post Sunday.
The executive order, he said, has “inarguably has made us less safe. It has taken draconian measures against a threat that was hyped. The byproduct is it feeds the Islamic militant narrative and makes it harder for our allies to side with us.”
Hayden did not support Trump during the 2016 election and has leveled similar charges before. “The jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world so when Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative… he’s feeding their recruitment video,” he said last May.
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Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/print/former-bush-cia-director-trump-executive-order-inarguably-has-made-us-less-safe/
Trump blames protesters and Delta computer outage for mass chaos at airports triggered by Muslim ban
Source: RawStory
BRAD REED
30 JAN 2017 AT 07:46 ET
Chaos erupted over the weekend at major airports across America after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday night that barred citizens from seven different Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
Trump took to Twitter on Monday morning to let America know that all of the disruptions they saw at airports for the past couple of days were not his fault.
“Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage, protesters and the tears of Senator Schumer,” Trump wrote. “Secretary Kelly said that all is going well with very few problems. MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.”
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Trump then went on to explain that there is “nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country,” and he pointed out that this was a major issue that he campaigned on.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-blames-protesters-and-delta-computer-outage-for-mass-chaos-at-airports-triggered-by-muslim-ban/
Morning Joe blames 'very young' Trump advisor for travel ban disaster: 'This weekend was a disgrace'
TRAVIS GETTYS
30 JAN 2017 AT 07:54 ET
President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team issued a warning over the weekend to the White House staff, according to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.
“We hope the staff, the young staff members at the White House, enjoyed their time trying to make policy on their own without talking to us, because that will never happen again,” Scarborough said, paraphrasing what those officials told him during extensive meetings. “The exact quote was, ‘The chain is tightening quickly.'”
The host of “Morning Joe” said top officials in the executive branch were particularly angry at Stephen Miller, the senior White House advisor for policy, for restructuring the National Security Council to include Steve Bannon, the president’s chief strategist.
The pair have reportedly been writing executive orders without consulting federal agency lawyers or lawmakers, which has rankled top officials within the executive branch.
“You’ve got a very young person in the White House on a power trip thinking that you can just write executive orders and tell all of your other cabinet agencies to go to hell, and Washington’s in an uproar this morning — forget about what’s happening in the street — because Stephen Miller decided he was going to do this without going through the regular inter-agency process,” Scarborough said.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/morning-joe-blames-very-young-trump-advisor-for-travel-ban-disaster-this-weekend-was-a-disgrace/
A Clarifying Moment for Conservatives
January 29, 2017 By Taegan Goddard
Eliot Cohen: “To friends still thinking of serving as political appointees in this administration, beware: When you sell your soul to the Devil, he prefers to collect his purchase on the installment plan. Trump’s disregard for either Secretary of Defense Mattis or Secretary-designate Tillerson in his disastrous policy salvos this week, in favor of his White House advisers, tells you all you need to know about who is really in charge. To be associated with these people is going to be, for all but the strongest characters, an exercise in moral self-destruction.”
“For the community of conservative thinkers and experts, and more importantly, conservative politicians, this is a testing time. Either you stand up for your principles and for what you know is decent behavior, or you go down, if not now, then years from now, as a coward or opportunist. Your reputation will never recover, nor should it.”
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https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/29/clarifying-moment-conservatives/
How Trump Is Making U.S. Cities Easier Targets for Terror
Nearly every order he has issued relating to national security runs counter to the principles and practices of the men and women who actually secure the cities terrorists try to hit.
CHRISTOPHER DICKEY
01.30.17 1:15 AM ET
In one week, Donald Trump has made the United States a much, much more dangerous place for the vast majority of its people—those who live in cities—and terrorists are exulting. As the former head of Britain's MI6 intelligence operations, Richard Barrett, told the BBC on Monday: “The narrative of the Islamic State is precisely what Mr. Trump appears to be confirming—that Americans are against people of Muslim faith, they particularly discriminate against them in favour of other people. So it is this 'them or us' type picture that the Islamic State promotes.”
The divisiveness and anger spawned by the new American president may disturb the peace of other countries as well. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Sunday that he would take the refugees the United States turns away. But, ominously, within hours a mosque in Quebec City was attacked. Six people were murdered as they prayed and eight more were injured. The identities of the alleged assailants have not yet been released, but the mosque had a pig's head left at its door last summer, and suspicions have focused on anti-Muslim fanatics. Trudeau called the shooting "a terrorist attack on Muslims."
The initial implementation of the Trump ban on refugees and visitors and immigrants and at first even green-card holders from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen has been wildly confused. Travelers from those countries with previously valid visas have been stranded aroudn the world. People fleeing religious persecution in Iran and seeking U.S. asylum—Evangelical Christians, Jews, and Baha'is—are being turned back from Austria where they normally would wait, usually for many months, for clearance finally to reach asylum in the United States. (The echoes of the U.S. turning away a ship full of Jews fleeing Germany before World War II are not lost on historically minded Europeans, especially after Trump's White House issued a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that made no mention whatsoever of the six million Jews who died.)
Inside the United States, where federal judges ruled those banned Muslims being held at airports must have the right to see lawyers, Customs and Border Patrol at Dulles Airport briefly opted not to comply with the courts. The American Civil Liberties Union reportedly was investigating other cases of noncompliance with the court orders in New York, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago when the White House reversed course on green-card holders—legal permanent residents—and ruled they should be allowed in. Meanwhile, protests have broken out in cities across the nation.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/30/how-trump-is-making-u-s-cities-easier-targets-for-terror.html
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