memeorandum: Secret Service agent critical of Trump put on paid leave: report (Mark Hensch/The Hill)

5:30 PM ET, January 28, 2017

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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, CNN, Reuters, 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: The Hill, 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, Fortune, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, AOL, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, Axios, Mashable, Engadget, East Bay Times and Balloon Juice

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, Washington Post, Obsidian Wings, Hot Air, New Urban Legends, The Daily Signal, Power Line, ThinkProgress and The Hill

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, Princeton Election Consortium, RedState, Liberal Values, Refinery29, The Gateway Pundit and Politicus USA

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

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 and Politicus USA

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

Discussion: Mediaite and alan.com

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

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

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

Discussion: Politico, Vox, ABC News and Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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: Billy Penn, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, WQAD-TV, WCMH-TV, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Reuters, The Week and FOX40

Seung Min Kim / Politico: Trump sued after Iraqis detained at airport

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, CNN and Shareblue

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

Discussion: Vox and Axios

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

Discussion: ACLU, AOL, USA Today, East Bay Times, New York Times, Fox News Insider, Daily Kos and CBS New York

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

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: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Secret Service agent critical of Trump put on paid leave: report — A senior Secret Service agent who suggested she would not take a bullet for President Trump has been placed on paid leave, according to a new report. — Kerry O'Grady is off her job with pay while the agency investigates …

Susan Crabtree / Washington Examiner:
Secret Service puts agent who decried taking ‘a bullet’ for Trump on paid leave

Discussion: Fox News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Fox News Insider and Washington Free Beacon

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

Kyle Smith / New York Post:

After years of liberal hate, George W. Bush is getting the respect he deserves — MORE FROM: — It was in February 2010, on Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minn., according to Wikipedia, that the billboards first began to appear: “MISS ME YET?” ran the message over a picture of George W. Bush.

Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit

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

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