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Trump Issues Ban On 7 One Half Of Mary
In Office For 1 Week: The Fallout Has Already Started As Top Republicans And Conservatives Breaking Away
President Trump, at the Pentagon on Friday, with Vice President Mike Pence and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Muslim Countries; None Where He Has Business Interest
Protests around the world since Donald Trump issued an immi- gration ban.
Mary Supports Donald Trump
Tina Campbell wrote a letter about her support for President Trump.
Tina Campbell, one half of contemporary gospel duo Mary Mary, is yet another Black woman who has come out in support of President Donald Trump.
Campbell took to her Face- book page this week with an open letter, giving our new president both her forgiveness and support. Awwwwww. She lists her reasons as Biblically based.
“I choose to stand with him, and pray for him; because, as a follower of Jesus Christ and a firm believer in the Holy Bible, according to 1 Timothy 2:1-3, I have been commanded to: ‘The first thing I want you to do is pray every way you know how... especially for rulers and their governments, to rule well. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live,’” she wrote.
According to Time, for the first time in his presidency, Donald Trump is facing significant criticism from Re- publican officials and conser- vative groups who are rattled by his ban on immigrants from Muslim-majority na- tions, questioning his domes- tic policy agenda and worrying about what steps the New York billionaire might take next in the name of nationalism.
By Sunday evening, more than a dozen GOP members of Congress had spoken out against Trump’s executive order on immigration. Among them were an array of the party’s most influential figures.
The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said the United States should not implement a religious
test. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio said the plan to strengthen vetting.
And the political and policy groups led by Charles and David Koch offered their first public criticism of Trump, whose candidacy the billionaire brothers found so unpalatable they sat out the 2016 election.
The wave of criticism marks the end of a startlingly brief honeymoon period for a new President who has been in of- fice for scarcely a week, and even set the White House on defense as it backtracked on the ban applying to green- card holders.
And while much of the blowback was driven by Trump’s immigration or- ders, the controversial plans he has on the horizon suggest the rest of his term could be just as rocky.
The seven countries that President Trump issued a ban against are predomi- nantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa. Christian refugees from those nations can expect to receive more favorable treatment than Muslims from those na- tions. The countries included in Friday’s Executive Order (stayed by a federal judge on Saturday) are Syria, Libya,
Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Somalia. These are facts.
What is also a fact, accord- ing to Bloomberg Politics, is that Donald Trump’s banned list doesn’t include majority Muslim countries where the Trump organiza- tion has done business or pursued potential deals in- cluding the United Arab Emi- rates (golf courses) and Turkey (luxury towers.)
Judge Grants Stay Halting Immigration Ban After ACLU Files Lawsuit
Protesters at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York after Donald Trump’s ban.
A federal judge in Brooklyn has granted a stay halting Donald Trump’s danger- ous, xenophobic immigration ban, after the American Civil Liberties Union and the Na- tional Immigration Law Cen- ter sued on behalf of two men from Iraq who were detained at New York’s JFK Airport. The stay applies nationally.
The ACLU announced Sat- urday they were filing suit with a coalition of other legal organizations; besides the NILC they included the Inter- national Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice
Center, Yale Law School’s Jerome N. Frank Legal Serv- ices Organization, and the firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton.The suit was filed on behalf of Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Al- shawi, who both held valid visas and were traveling to the United States to join their families.
Darweesh worked as a translator for the U.S. mili- tary in Iraq; a veteran and former Obama administra- tion who worked with him called him heroic and “fear- less.”
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