CHICAGO (JTA) — Taylor Clearfield went to the airport Friday to welcome a Syrian refugee family. The next day, she returned with a sign to protest the ban on refugees entering the United States. President Donald Trump had enacted the ban via executive order on Friday afternoon, between her two trips. She had anticipated the development, but hearing…
A long day of protest ended in a partial victory on Saturday, as a federal judge ruled that travelers detained at U.S. airports as a result of President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban would not be deported. Activists cheered the ruling outside the Brooklyn courthouse where the judge signed the injunction, and at John F. Kennedy…
In a reverent scene in downtown Manhattan on Friday, dozens of Muslims gathered in Foley Square to pray, and to protest President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration. “Mark my words,” said Imam Khalid Latif, executive director of the Islamic Center at New York University, as barefooted Muslims sat on tarps spread across the cement,…
As national Jewish organizations ring alarm bells over an expected executive order that would ban refugees from Syria, some on the Jewish right are praising the new strict limitations. Mainstream Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League and HIAS, as well as left-leaning organizations like the Reconstructionist Movement, the New Israel Fund and Bend the Arc,…
The president of the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS called the immigration-related executive orders President Donald Trump plans to sign today “a total violation of our values.” “We find it particularly ironic that he’s chosen the week of Holocaust Remembrance Day to wall out refugees and immigrants and to put a ban on refugees,” said…
Donald Trump on has announced his pick for attorney general: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the most conservative U.S. lawmakers and an early supporter of the president-elect’s proposal on banning Muslims entering the country. In a November 18 statement, Trump called Sessions a “world-class legal mind” who is “admired by legal scholars and virtually…
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump opened his presidential campaign by calling the United States “a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” He famously proclaimed that Mexico is not sending “their best” across the border, that Mexican immigrants are drug dealers, criminals and rapists….
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