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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 …

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.

Discussion: Vox, Reuters, CNN, PRI, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Taylor Marsh, The Guardian, Hit & Run, Daily Kos and Washington Post

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 …

Discussion: Vox, CNN and Talking Points Memo

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 …

Discussion: Politico, The Verge, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit, ThinkProgress, Mediaite, AOL, Business Insider, Axios, Mashable, Engadget and Balloon Juice

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Telegraph, RedState, Princeton Election Consortium, Liberal Values, Refinery29, The Gateway Pundit and Politicus USA

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.

Discussion: RedState, Mother Jones, Obsidian Wings, Hot Air, New Urban Legends, The Daily Signal, Washington Post, Power Line, The Hill and ThinkProgress

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, The Guardian, Engadget, Business Insider, Mashable, CBS San Francisco, Heat Street, Live political coverage and The Verge

Tamer El-Ghobashy / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Visa Ban Also Applies to Citizens With Dual Nationality, State Department Says

Discussion: Mother Jones, Dallas Morning News and Raw Story

Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
NY lawmakers: Refugee detained in airport has been released

Discussion: Daily Kos

Graham Rayman / New York Daily News:
Following President Trump's executive order green card, visa holders already blocked by airports

Discussion: Vox and Axios

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

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller

CNN:
2 Iraqis file lawsuit after being detained in NY due to travel ban

Discussion: Hot Air, The Huffington Post, WQAD-TV, WCMH-TV, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Reuters and FOX40

Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
1 Iraqi Released, 1 Still Held at New York Airport in Wake of Trump's Executive Order

Discussion: ACLU, USA Today, New York Times, Fox News Insider, Daily Kos, CBS New York and The Guardian

Associated Press:
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making …

Discussion: Vox, ABC News and Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
President Trump Signs Executive Order Temporarily Halting All Refugees

Discussion: Refugee Resettlement Watch, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, CBS Sacramento, TheBlaze and The Geller Report

Reuters:
Iraqis with U.S. ties are first to sue over Trump immigration order

Discussion: Sputnik International and The Week

Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:

Paul Ryan: Trump's refugee ban does not target Muslims — President Trump's order to temporarily halt admission to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries is not a Muslim ban, Republicans in Congress, including aides to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), declared Saturday.

Discussion: Daily Kos

Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump's Muslim ban excludes countries linked to his sprawling business empire

Discussion: Mediaite and alan.com

Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Pence once called Trump's Muslim ban ‘unconstitutional.’ He now applauds a ban on refugees.

Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Caller, CNBC, Media Matters for America, East Bay Times, Mother Jones and CNN

New York Times:
Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries

Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller, DCist, The Slot, Outside the Beltway, Politico, Gothamist, Washington Post, Althouse, Daily Kos, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and CBN.com

CAIR:
CAIR to Announce Constitutional Challenge to Trump's ‘Muslim Ban’ Executive Order

Discussion: Common Dreams, The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review

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.

New York Times:
Trump's First Week: Misfires, Crossed Wires and a Satisfied Smile

Discussion: Althouse, Washington Monthly and Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story, abc13.com, Associated Press and ThinkProgress

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.

Discussion: Oliver Willis

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 …

Discussion: RedState

Max Greenwood / The Hill:

Dutch commit $10M for abortion funding in wake of US ban — The Netherlands has committed $10 million to an initiative to fund abortion services in developing countries, Reuters reported Saturday. — The commitment is meant to help replace funding that is expected to be lost after President …

Discussion: RedState

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.

Discussion: Business Insider

Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Republicans in Congress don't want anything to do with Trump's voter-fraud probe

Discussion: Daily Kos, Arizona Republic, Politicus USA and Shareblue

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.

Discussion: AOL and Political Wire