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U.S. embassy cables detail foreign dismay at immigration order
ReutersThe U.S. State Department hasreceived multiple cables from its embassies abroad reporting onthe foreign anger and dismay at the U.S. executive ordercurtailing travel to the U.S. by seven predominately Muslimcountries, a U.S. official said on Monday. -
U.S. judges limit Trump immigration order; some officials ignore rulings
U.S. judges in at least five states blocked federal authorities from enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. -
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Trump brushes off outcry over travel ban, airport chaos
President Donald Trump on Monday brushed off outcry at home and abroad over an immigration ban on refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a move that caused chaos at U.S. airports over the weekend. -
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Starbucks has promised to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in response to Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring refugees access to the U.S. and banning entry for anyone from seven majority Muslim countries, the Guardian reports.
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Trump has signed another Executive Order, regarding deregulation. Text of EO has not been released.
Pool report: https://t.co/vJOS3cwKfK
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Koch network launches effort to kill Republican border tax plan
ReutersBillionaire industrialist Charles Koch is launching a campaign to sink a border tax under consideration by Republican leaders in Congress, a move that could complicate the lawmakers' efforts to find a way to pay for President Donald Trump's proposed wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. -
All holders of green cards who were detained at U.S. airports have now been admitted into the United States a U.S. official familiar with the process told Reuters late on Sunday.
The official did not immediately have a number for the total of permanent US residents whose entry into the US was held up, in some cases reportedly for hours, after Trump signed his order.The official said that going forward U.S. border control officers will continue to give extra scrutiny to green card holders who turn up at entry points carrying passports from the seven countries named in Trump's order.
But if dual national green card holders from who hold citizenship in one of the seven countries present U.S. authorities with passports from other countries, normally they will not receive special scrutiny as a result of the new policy.Reporting by Mark Hosenball -
Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway was asked on CNBC whether Trump would reconsider the order and make any changes based on feedback from the business community, including Elon Musk, who said he would seek a consensus among leaders of the president’s business advisory council and present it to Trump.
“The president will never reconsider what it means to keep us safe and he knows things that you don't and that Elon Musk and the rest of us don’t, because he’s the president. He’s the one that has all the information. What he will always reconsider is the counsel of people who are informed and who mean well.”
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Monday told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program defended Trump's immigration order: "Right now everything's flowing perfectly."
Asked if there was an imminent threat that forced the administration to act so quickly, he said: “Would you wait until there is? The answer is we act now to protect the future.” -
"There are people being detained right now at at least four different airports," Becca Heller, the director of the legal aid group the International Refugee Assistance Project, said in an interview with CNN on Monday morning. She said she knew of people detained at airports in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City [JFK] and Houston.
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Don't let Trump embarrass our queen, say a million Britons
Don't let Trump embarrass our queen, say a million Britons Over a million people in Britain have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's planned state visit to be canceled to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth, in a grassroots backlash against his immigration policies. -
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Iraqi parliament wants government to retaliate against U.S. travel ban
ReutersThe Iraqi parliament voted on Monday to ask the government to "retaliate" against U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on travel to the United States from Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries, a parliamentary media official told Reuters. -
The U.S. Embassy in Berlin is advising nationals and dual nationals of the seven banned Muslim-majority countries not to apply for visas to the United States, as visa issuance has been suspended.
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“Slamming shut the doors to the United States of America, which has rigorously vetted refugees for years, is an attack on the basic accepted notion that people should be able to flee for their lives,” Jason Cone, executive director of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres-USA, was quoted as saying in a statement.
“Every day our teams on the ground see people desperately seeking safety at closed borders and in war zones from which they cannot flee,” he said.
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Trump travel ban stirs faint corporate outcry beyond Silicon Valley
Most U.S. corporate bosses have stayed silent on President Trump's immigration curbs, underscoring the sensitivities around opposing policies that could provoke a backlash from the White House. -
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Trump's heartland voters shrug off global uproar over immigration ban
Many of President Trump’s core political supporters had a simple message on Sunday for the fiercest opponents of his immigration ban: Calm down. -
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More on the impact of Trump's executive order on green card holders (permanent residents).
U.S. homeland security head: Entry of lawful permanent residents in 'national interest'
ReutersU.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Sunday that in applying the provisions of President Donald Trump's executive order on refugees and immigration, he deemed the entry of lawful permanent residents "in the national interest." -
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From Reuters correspondent Dustin Volz:NEW: @ACLU now says it has received 290,000 online donations totaling $19.4 million since Saturday morning. Average per year is $3-4 million6:53 PM - 29 Jan 2017
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That is a fivefold increase in average annual online donations to the @ACLU within 36 hours. https://t.co/8tGQ90xQne7:03 PM - 29 Jan 2017- Reply
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An American Civil Liberties Union legal observer watches a flight arrivals board, as dozens of pro-immigration demonstrators greeted international passengers arriving at Dulles International Airport, to protest President Donald Trump's executive order barring visitors, refugees and immigrants from certain countries to the United States, in Chantilly, Virginia. The observer was offering free legal advice to assist any detainees. REUTERS/Mike Theiler
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All of President Donald Trump's orders banning entry of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority nations remain in effect and are being enforced, and the implementation has been a "massive success story," an administration official said on Sunday. (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton and Will Dunham)
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A young girl dances with an American flag in baggage claim while women pray behind her during a protest against the travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump's executive order, at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, January 29, 2017. REUTERS/Laura Buckman
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Leading Republican Corker says Trump immigration order 'poorly implemented'
ReutersSenator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee, said on Sunday that President Donald Trump's executive order on refugees and immigration had been "poorly implemented," particularly for green card holders.
New U.S. ambassador to China says North Korea a top priority
BEIJING The new U.S. ambassador to China has said that stopping the threat posed by North Korea will be a top priority, along with resolving the U.S.-China trade imbalance, according to a video message to the Chinese people released on Monday.
