Trump's Muslim Ban takes effect

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Donald Trump anti-refugee order: 'green-card holders included in ban' – live
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...s-order-to-ban-refugees-from-muslim-countries


Hamaseh Tayari, a UK resident who holds an Iranian passport, has been on holiday in Costa Rica with her boyfriend for the last week. She was due to fly back to Glasgow, where she works as a vet, this morning but was denied entry onto the flight because her flight went via New York and she would need a transit visa, which was revoked.

Tayari, who grew up in Italy, has never experienced anything like this. She says: “This has really shocked me. We just discovered [what Trump did] at the airport when we went to check-in. I want people to know that this is not just happening to refugees. I am a graduate and I have a Phd. It has happened to a person who is working and who pays tax.”

Hamaseh Tayari. Photograph: Hamaseh Tayari
Tayari and her boyfriend are trying to find an alternative route home. A flight to Madrid on the 30 January will cost them £2000 and they’ll still have to find a way from there to Glasgow. She says: “We had been saving for months for this holiday and it will cost me a month’s salary just to get home.

“I am destroyed. I did not know that I could cry for so long. It feels like the beginning of the end. How this is possible? I am really afraid about what is going on.”

Final summary
Donald Trump’s executive order to close America’s borders to refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries has been swiftly enforced. The order blocks to the US from citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya for 90 days and as well as indefinitely suspending admission of Syrian refugees.

The 45th president of the US also had a big day as he took phone calls from major world leaders including the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile Theresa May has met with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and a joint press conference was held.

Here’s a round up of the key events of the day:

• Criticism for his “muslim ban” came in from all quarters including Madeline Albright, the former US secretary of state, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani campaigner for girls’ education and Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
  
• We received the first reports of arrivals blocked at US airports.
• The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) described the executive order as worse than a draft form that had been leaked earlier in the week.
• Twelve nobel laureates are among thousands of signatories to a petition calling on Trump to renounce the order.
• A legal challenge has been filed against Donald Trump’s executive order by lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees.
• Theresa May and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have signed a £100m commitment to build new fighter jets.
• May refused to condemn Trump refugee ban when pressed on the issue by journalists at a joint press conference.
  
• People holding so-called green cards, making them legal permanent US residents, are included in the executive action.
• Iran vowed to take reciprocal action to Trump barring its citizens from entering the US.
• Trump spoke to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and Russian president Vladamir Putin.
• We spoke to travellers who had been turned away from flights, and those who don’t know when they will see their families again

Thank you so much for staying with us throughout the day and contributing your stories via our callout. We’re closing the live blog now, but will of course be publishing further stories on today’s events.

AMERICA IS ANTI MUSLIM (NOW OFFICIALLY), AND AN ANTI ISLAM COUNTRY WHICH RIDICULES ISLAM ON THEIR MAINSTREAM MEDIA REGULARLY.

 

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Tehran to ban Americans from entering Iran in tit-for-tat move

Iran will ban Americans from entering the country in response to President Donald Trump's “insulting” order restricting arrivals from Iran and six other Muslim states, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran... has decided to respond in kind after the insulting decision of the United States concerning Iranian nationals” until the measure is lifted, the ministry said in a statement carried by state television.

Trump on Friday signed a sweeping executive order to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough controls on travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Iran's foreign ministry called the decision “illegal, illogical and contrary to international rules”.

It said its own ban on US nationals would continue until the American measure was lifted.

The ministry said said it had ordered Iranian diplomatic missions to help Iranians who had been “prevented from returning to their homes and places of work and study” in the United States.

Travel agents in Tehran said that foreign airlines had begun barring Iranians from US-bound flights.

French leader chides US populism, urges European unity

French President Francois Hollande on Saturday urged Europe to present a united front against populist movements which, he said, are being encouraged by political developments in the United States.

“Europe is facing a moment of truth,” Hollande said. “The issue is populism. What we are hearing from the US encourages populism and even extremism. They are saying that Europe should not take immigrants, shouldn't stay together, not believe in climate change.”

European Union countries should stick to their principles and defend their interests and stand firm in talks with US President Donald Trump, Hollande said.

“Europe should be true to itself. It should guide itself according to its values, its principles, and its interests,” Hollande said on the sidelines of an informal meeting with six other EU leaders in Lisbon, Portugal. “We should engage in discussions (with the US) that sometimes should be very firm.”

“And as long as there are statements from the US president about Europe, when he speaks about the model of Brexit for other countries, when the US president talks about climate change ... saying he's not convinced of it, we should respond to him. When he takes protectionist measures, we should respond to him. When he destabilizes the economies of other countries, not only European ones, we should respond to him. When he rejects the arrival of refugees, while Europe has done its duty, we should respond to him,” he told reporters.

Italian premier Paolo Gentiloni said the EU will “find a way to work with the US administration” but added that the bloc should remain true to its core values including human rights and anti-protectionism.

The EU leaders emphasised their commitment to the European Union, in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the bloc.

“We believe that in a world confronted with growing uncertainties and instability, we will be stronger by acting together,” they said in a joint statement. “Weakening Europe is not an option.” However, they said they hoped “to have the United Kingdom as a close partner of the EU.”

http://nation.com.pk/international/...ricans-from-entering-iran-in-tit-for-tat-move

 

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This is horrible.

But nothing new.

Hamaseh Tayari

By the way, if you have paid attention, her name translates to "Always Ready", which... is kind of funny.

 

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This is horrible.

But nothing new.



By the way, if you have paid attention, her name translates to "Always Ready", which... is kind of funny.

Yes very horrible because it targets Muslims specifically. OIC should issue a joint condemnation against this. Obviously its their prerogative but Muslim leaders should try to move away from these decadent people and align with China and Russia because its becoming clear that they hate Muslims and Islam and they can't tolerate either. See the next step is they will start policing opinions held by Muslims within America.

 

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Yes very horrible because it targets Muslims specifically. OIC should issue a joint condemnation against this. Obviously its their prerogative but Muslim leaders should try to move away from these decadent people and align with China and Russia because its becoming clear that they hate Muslims and Islam and they can't tolerate either. See the next step is they will start policing opinions held by Muslims within America.

LOL i actually support this move. Dont take me negatively but i had enough of Muslim talent going to USA. USA is not end of the world.