WASHINGTON, D.C., — Today, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which is essentially a version 2.0 of the anti-Muslim travel ban. The new order signed Monday with little fanfare is a backdown of monumental proportions, reports The Huffington Post. The only travelers banned are those without visas from six nations ― Iraq was scratched…
Following a weekend of mass demonstrations at U.S. airports over Trump’s Muslim ban, President Obama released a statement in which he said he was “… heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country.” The statement, issued under the name of Obama’s spokesman Kevin Lewis, was the first comment Obama has…
As thousands demonstrated at airports across the country this weekend against President Trump’s latest Executive Order targeting Muslims from specific countries advocacy groups continued to call out his actions calling them “inhumane” and “religious hatred.” “Trump’s latest Executive Order is religious hatred and thinly veiled racism by fiat. In the targeting of specific countries, he…
