Arrivals from Muslim countries being detained at US aiports
US authorities wasted no time implementing Donald Trump’s order halting Muslim arrivals, detaining travelers arriving at American airports within hours of the US president signing the tough new measures, media reports said Saturday.
The New York Times reported that airport officials as early as Friday night began detaining travelers, some of whom already had been aboard their flights when Trump announced his executive order closing America’s borders to refugees.
Trump’s order suspends entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days and indefinitely halts the admission of refugees from Syria.
It also bans entry into the United States from travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries — Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — for 90 days.
The order paved the way for what Trump has pledged will be “extreme vetting” of visa applicants’ backgrounds — with some exceptions made for members of “religious minorities,” a caveat many see as a way to apply favorable treatment to Christians from majority Muslim states.
The move makes good on one of Trump’s most controversial campaign promises, when he vowed to stem immigration from various Muslim countries which he insists pose a terror threat to the United States, and to subject future arrivals to “extreme vetting.”
The Times said the detentions have been met with early legal challenges, as lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees being held at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport filed a court appeal for their release, alleging that the two travelers were being unlawfully detained.
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Well, he said he would do it and now he is
I predicted this would happen in 2005, before Donald Trump believed he could become a U.S. president. Unless things change quickly and world terrorism stops, this U.S. action could just be a pointer to the direction the world would follow. It is to be expected that many more countries – especially those in the Western Hemisphere – would follow Trump’s example in the near future, as nations are being sucked into a vortex of religious and cultural intolerance. Democracy and rights of any kind could only thrive in an atmosphere of peace and security. In the absence of those, any individual would naturally fall into self preservation mode, something akin to a withdrawal into one’s primordial shell where to be safe is the first rule. Rather than remain big, liberal and exposed to grave danger, nations would feel a strong need to be small, mean and safe, instead. A few fleas are sufficient for a dog, otherwise it would forget it’s a dog…
Well, I do not blame President Trump, I rather blame Muslims for being the brain behind every crisis in each country or nations of the world. They are the terrorist disturbing the peace of the world. May all learned leaders in the world follow Trump action is my prayer.
We will review and take appropriate action.