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WASHINGTON — As President Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Friday, shutting the borders to refugees and others from seven largely Muslim countries, the secretary of homeland security was on a White House conference call getting his first full briefing on the global shift in policy. Gen. John F. Kelly, the secretary of homeland…
Commentators say Mr Bannon’s role is expanding beyond politics President Donald Trump is reshuffling the US National Security Council (NSC), downgrading the military chiefs of staff and giving a regular seat to his chief strategist Steve Bannon. Mr Bannon, formerly the head of the populist right-wing, Breitbart News website, will join high-level discussions about national…
The president’s executive order is a shocking reversal of American values. On Friday, President Donald Trump enacted harsh restrictions on immigration and refugee intake via executive order. Titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” the executive order has the effect of placing a hold on the U.S. refugee program and…
The presidency of Donald J. Trump has been noteworthy for its speed. In his first week in office, as the president’s aides won’t tire of reminding us, Mr. Trump has already put in motion plans to do much of what he promised to do while campaigning. But it’s not just the politician who is moving…
Immigrant rights groups scored a series of early court victories against President Donald Trump’s terrorism-focused executive order limiting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, but legal experts and administration officials said the impact of those initial legal victories could prove fleeting. There is little doubt the orders — issued by federal judges in New York, Boston,…
Peter Thiel Is a Fucking Fool Peter Thiel, back in October, asked if he supported Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the U.S./Mexican border and ban Muslims from immigrating to the U.S.: I don’t support a religious test. I certainly don’t support the specific language Trump has used in every instance. But I think one…
QUEENS — One person was still detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport under President Trump’s refugee ban after thousands of people protested the executive order over the weekend, immigration lawyers said Monday morning. Lawyers at #NoBanJFK still going strong. #NoBanUSA #NotOnOurWatch pic.twitter.com/AfMh3LU112 — NoBanJFK (@nobanjfk) January 30, 2017 The executive order, which the president…
Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said in an interview Sunday morning that a federal judge’s ruling “really doesn’t affect” the President’s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from certain countries from entering the United States. “The judge in Brooklyn, the Obama appointee judge in Brooklyn’s stay of order really doesn’t affect the executive order at all, because…
Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, speaking with Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist. Credit Drew Angerer/Getty Images Amid protests and legal challenges over President Trump’s immigration order, the White House also found itself on the defensive this weekend about a normally routine statement about International Holocaust Remembrance Day that drew criticism and…
Dulles International Airport meets Donald Trump’s immigration order. The international arrivals hall at Washington Dulles Airport seems an unlikely place for a constitutional crisis. Located far below the soaring concrete arches designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, himself an immigrant who defined the neofuturist style of the late 1950s, it is a surprisingly modest locale…