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Thousands protest Trump’s “Muslim Ban;” Judge issues stay, blocks order By: Chris Gilmore/TRT Reporter
IN THE LIMELIGHT
Although a federal judge ordered a stay against Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban, demonstrators from Boston to San Francisco continued to protest at airports in over 30 cities in the U.S. for a second day in a row last weekend. Waving pro-immigration signs and chanting against the Trump administration’s Muslim ban, treatment of refugees and immigrants. Immigration attorneys, national security experts and civil rights organizations all criticized the order considering it un-American and a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The online site Mother Jones (https://goo.gl/DULgX2) reported that the ruling—“handed down by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, as a first stinging rebuke in Trump’s first week—protects deportation refugees or visa holders who were detained at American airports since the signing of the so-called ‘Muslim ban.’ It also protects those in transit when the emergency ruling was filed.” Trump’s destructive executive order, as the ACLU deemed it, took effect immediately. “At John F. Kennedy International Airport last night, Hameed Khalid Darweesh arrived and was immediately detained. Darweesh worked as interpreter for the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and, according to Brandon Friedman, a platoon leader in Iraq, saved countless U.S. service members’ lives,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Ex-
Thousands across the nation protested the Muslim Ban, this crowd in Boston, Mass.
ecutive Director, via the ACLU’s website. “We don’t know how many other refugees and foreign nationals with green cards or visas might have been detained when they tried to make their way into the United States today, but we intend to find out. We are asking anyone with any information to
get in touch with the ACLU.” And intent was at the helm of it, the ACLU claims. “We have no doubt that the motivation behind the executive order was discriminatory,” explained Romero in his statement. “This was a Muslim ban wrapped in a paper-
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thin national security rationale.” ACLU, Attorneys to the rescue The ACLU, along with other organizations jumped into action to challenge Trump’s ...
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