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Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges to Trump's Immigration Order — President Trump's executive order closing the nation's borders to refugees was put into immediate effect Friday night. Refugees who were in the air on the way to the United States when the order …
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Marcelo Rochabrun / ProPublica:
Trump Executive Order Could Block 500,000 Legal U.S. Residents From Returning to America From Trips — When details leaked earlier this week about a spate of immigration-related executive orders from President Donald Trump, much public discussion focused on a 30-day ban on new visas for citizens from seven “terror-prone” countries.
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Green card holders included in Trump ban -Homeland Security — People holding so-called green cards, making them legal permanent U.S. residents, are included in President Donald Trump's executive action temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order — Memo from CEO Pichai says more than 100 employees impacted — Pichai says President's move caused painful ‘personal costs’ — Alphabet Inc.'s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted …
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David J. Bier / New York Times:
Trump's Immigration Ban Is Illegal — President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that purports to bar for at least 90 days almost all permanent immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Syria and Iraq, and asserts the power to extend the ban indefinitely.
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria and Poland. Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam. The United States is a nation of immigrants, and we should be proud of that. — Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump.
New York Times:
Full Executive Order Text: Trump's Action Limiting Refugees Into the U.S. — President Trump signed an executive order on Friday titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States.” Following is the language of that order, as supplied by the White House.
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Graham Rayman / New York Daily News:
Following President Trump's executive order green card, visa holders already blocked by airports — Within hours of President Trump's executive order limiting immigration from Muslim countries, green card and visa holders were already being blocked from getting on flights to the U.S.
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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump's Muslim ban excludes countries linked to his sprawling business empire — President Trump's most recent executive order effectively bans citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days — but some Muslim countries were spared …
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
NY lawmakers: Refugee detained in airport has been released
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Pence once called Trump's Muslim ban ‘unconstitutional.’ He now applauds a ban on refugees.
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New York Times:
Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries
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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
1 Iraqi Released, 1 Still Held at New York Airport in Wake of Trump's Executive Order
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump's latest executive order: Banning people from 7 countries and more
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Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
President Trump Signs Executive Order Temporarily Halting All Refugees
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Advice for Those Weighing Jobs in the Trump Administration — Some 40 people were indicted as a result of the Watergate scandal. Among those sentenced to prison: the attorney general of the United States, the White House counsel, and President Nixon's two most senior White House aides.
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Washington Times:
NBC's Chuck Todd: Media knew how ‘hated’ Hillary was in heartland and we ‘underplayed’ it — 'We didn't tell the stories of all Americans,' ‘Meet the Press’ host admits — NBC's Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton …
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Republican redistricting is taking a beating in the courts, right now — Recent court decisions in three states are putting carefully carved Republican-drawn state legislative districts at risk — and could even threaten the entire process of partisan map drawing.
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Jon Wilcox / Victoria Advocate:
Fire destroys mosque; cause undetermined (w/video) — Flames engulfed the Islamic Center of Victoria, destroying the building in the predawn hours Saturday as congregation members watched from the curb, overcome with emotion. — “It's a house of worship,” Shahid Hashmi, president of the center …
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New York Times:
The Voter Fraud Fantasy — There are varying degrees of absurdity in the fallacies President Trump peddled during his first week in the Oval Office. Perhaps the most damaging was his insistence that millions of Americans voted illegally in the election he narrowly won.
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Republicans in Congress don't want anything to do with Trump's voter-fraud probe
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New York Times:
Russians Charged With Treason Worked in Office Linked to Election Hacking — WASHINGTON — Ever since American intelligence agencies accused Russia of trying to influence the American election, there have been questions about the proof they had to support the accusation.
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