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New York Times:
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.
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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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New York Times:
Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation's borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing Syrian carnage be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration …
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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 — One of at least two Iraqis detained at Kennedy International Airport in New York City in the wake of President Trump's executive order on immigration has been released.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump sued after Iraqis detained at airport
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump's latest executive order: Banning people from 7 countries and more
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
President Trump Signs Executive Order Temporarily Halting All Refugees
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Reuters:
Trump bars door to refugees, visitors from seven mainly Muslim nations
Trump bars door to refugees, visitors from seven mainly Muslim nations
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Trump signs order temporarily halting admission of refugees, promises priority for Christians
Trump signs order temporarily halting admission of refugees, promises priority for Christians
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump's radical immigration plan: Enforce the law
Trump's radical immigration plan: Enforce the law
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New York Times
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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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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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 …
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Fears That Trump's Visa Ban Betrays Friends and Bolsters Enemies
Fears That Trump's Visa Ban Betrays Friends and Bolsters Enemies
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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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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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Brian Albrecht / Plain Dealer:
President Donald Trump acts to restrict immigration, blocking a Syrian family due in Cleveland Tuesday — CLEVELAND, Ohio - The fate of a Syrian refugee family bound for resettlement here hung on the stroke of a pen by President Donald Trump on Friday. — The family — two parents …
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump says Syrian Christian refugees will be given priority
Trump says Syrian Christian refugees will be given priority
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