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AP Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today. After the Supreme Court allowed the majority of President Trump’s Muslim travel ban to take effect earlier this week, the administration issued new criteria that require visa applicants from the six majority-Muslim countries and all refugees to have a…
President Trump said Friday that he is considering rewriting his executive order temporarily barring refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country, indicating that the administration may try to quickly restore some aspects of the now-frozen travel ban or replace it with other measures. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that…
Fresh challenges to President Trump’s court-frozen immigration order took shape Monday with two former secretaries of state claiming the White House was undermining national security and nearly 100 Silicon Valley tech companies arguing it will keep the best minds from coming to America. The powerful new voices were added with another legal showdown coming as…
The White House has said a five-year-old boy was detained for more than four hours and reportedly handcuffed at an airport because he posed a “security risk”. The boy, reportedly a US citizen with an Iranian mother, was one of more than 100 people detained following President Donald Trump’s immigration order. In a press briefing, Mr…
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…