Inside the confusion of the Trump executive order and travel ban

Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump declared at the Pentagon Friday he was enacting strict new measures to prevent domestic terror attacks, there were few within his government who knew exactly what he meant. Administration officials weren’t immediately sure which countries’ …

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Thousands of academics sign letter opposing Trump’s travel ban

Washington (CNN)Thousands of academics in the United States are calling on President Donald Trump to reconsider his executive order that bans travel from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days and temporarily suspends all refugee admission to the US. By late …

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Trump official justifies travel ban with attack that would not have been stopped by new rules

Washington (CNN)A senior Trump administration official on Saturday pointed to the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, to justify the President’s order to ban US immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. But neither of the attackers in the shooting, which …

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Trump slams door on refugees

(CNN)President Donald Trump is commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day by slamming America’s door on refugees. It is a ghastly repeat of the terrible error when President Warren Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, seriously restricting the amounts of immigrants and …

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