OUTRAGE AT AIRPORTS
President Trump’s ban on refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries sparked chaos around the globe and was met with nationwide protests before a federal judge in New York issued an emergency order that temporarily barred the U.S. from deporting people from those nations.
Trump’s immigration order — which bans travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen for 90 days and suspends the U.S. refugee program for 120 days — prompted tens of thousands of protesters to effectively shut down major airports from coast to coast last night.
As the protests raged, Trump defended his executive order, telling reporters, “it’s not a Muslim ban,” and stressing “we are totally prepared.”
“It’s working out very nicely. You see it in the airports, you see it all over,” Trump said yesterday. “It’s working out very nicely and we are going to have a very, very strict ban and we are going to have extreme vetting — which we should have had in this country for many years.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan backed Trump’s executive order, saying in a statement, “Our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland.”
“We are a compassionate nation, and I support the refugee resettlement program, but it’s time to reevaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process,” Ryan said, adding, “Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering out country.”
As demonstrators swamping American airports called for the