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

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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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