Yesterday, Trump announced a refugee ban that caused confusion and fear, both because the logistics didn’t seem well-considered, and because the actual goal of the ban seemed not to have been well-served.
Here’s a list of relevant links about what’s been going on. This list will be updated throughout the day.
General info
- It appears that Green Card holders won’t be barred from re-entry (NYTimes)
- A New York judge issued a stay to part of Trump’s executive order, but the White House doesn’t think it applies (CNN)
- Ban is unlikely to reduce terror threat (NYTimes)
- The freedom that refugees once found here (New Yorker)
- Silicon Valley’s responses to Trump’s immigration orders, from strongest to weakest (The Verge)
- A list of government officials who have taken no position on the refugee ban (Vox)
- 20 ways you can support muslims/immigrants (Medium)
- #DeleteUber is trending after PR missteps by the company (Buzzfeed)
- Trump’s immigration order annotated (NYTimes)
- The betrayal of legal immigrants who followed the rules (The Atlantic)
- A clarifying moment in American history (The Atlantic)
- Trump’s immigration ban triggers panic at universities (CNN)
- Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence: Trump’s Horrifying Executive Order on Refugees and Visas (Lawfare)
Individual stories
- Trump Muslim Ban May Keep 4-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Sir Mo Farah From Returning Home To His Kids (Deadspin)
- How Trump’s immigration order affects one Iraqi family (McClatchyDC)
- A welcome for Syrians in a country about to ban them (NYTimes)
- This is what it’s like to come the US as a refugee
- Tech employees reeling (CNN)
- Clemson professor gets deported
- Boston-area academics face bans on entering US (Boston Globe)
- Khizr Khan reacts to the news (New Yorker)
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