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On Friday night, Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” that issued a sweeping temporary ban on re-entry for green card holders intro the US from 7 majority-Muslim countries including Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Notably, these countries don’t include major US ally Saudi Arabia as well as countries that Trump has large business dealings in. This ban comes hot on the heels of Trump beating the drums of nuclear war against super-powers like China and Russia, “regional powers” such as Iran, pushing a trade-war with Mexico which seeks to make them bay for a massive wall along the Mexican border and recently put a 20% tax on all Mexican imports that Americans must pay. Trump also repeated his calls for the use of torture against those suspected of “terrorism” along with the creation of CIA black sites, all while using the cover of attacking ISIL and with the full backing from the Democratic Party.
What underscores all of this is Trump’s push to increase American economic power in the face of rising super-powers like China and Russia while also securing massive amounts of energy resources both in the US and abroad, as evidenced of Trump’s recent executive orders which push through the Keystone XL and DAPL pipelines and seek to open up federal land to resource extraction. Trump even went so far recently as to state positively while giving a speech at CIA headquarters that it was possible another war in Iraq would break out in order for the US to secure the country’s oil supplies.
In response to the executive order, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that is was applying the ban on green-card holders from the 7 countries and in response, began to turn away people coming into airports, or leaving some people stuck in limbo or detained at airports. Meanwhile, Trump spoke in the media Saturday about how the ban was going smoothly, despite most news agencies reporting chaos engulfing Customs and Border Protection, (the head of which, Julie Kirchner, is a white nationalist formerly a part of the anti-immigrant group FAIR, and was just appointed by Steve Bannon, formerly of Breitbart) and with large scale demonstrations breaking out over the ban at various airports.
According to Vox, the ban could end of affecting up to 500,000 green card holders:
In some cases, green-card holders are being allowed to enter the US even if they’ve come from a “banned” country. An administration official confirmed Saturday afternoon that they’re making “case-by-case” exceptions to allow certain green-card holders into the US.
“We are hearing that some [legal permanent residents] are being admitted after lots of questions” from Customs and Border Protection agents, says William Stock, the president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Another article stated:
One woman who was being deported to Chile under the ban even attempted suicide at JFK Airport in New York City, before she was saved by two Port Authority police officers. New York City taxi drivers went on strike Saturday evening in protest, and tech companies like Apple and Google were speaking out against the order and scrambling to protect their employees.
In response, protests have broken out across at airports across the US in response to the ban, demanding that those held at airports in detention be allowed to leave and that lawyers be allowed to come in and represent those seeking re-entry. Where these demonstrations go is anyone’s guess, but they represent the first serious response to Trump’s rapid fire executive orders which are designed to increase corporate profits, attack broad sections of the population, re-strengthen white supremacy and patriarchy, and solidify his far-Right wing base.
Just taking the streets won't be enough in Trump's America. You will have to organize, participate in direct action, disrupt and revolt.
— ѕyndιcalιѕт (@syndicalisms) January 28, 2017
announcing that the protest will continue everyday until #muslimban is over at #ohare before joing outside march pic.twitter.com/ZdxID6YgZ3
— #intsxsurgeryispetty (@Pidgejen) January 29, 2017
Attacks on refugees, asylum cities, the press. White supremacists in the White House. Don't let history repeat itself. Get up and fight. pic.twitter.com/2fRUjqrnJi
— Will Potter (@will_potter) January 26, 2017
Sign reading "NO BORDERS" draped over top level of parking lot in #Terminal4 #NoMuslimBanJFK pic.twitter.com/YH6gdGmVPJ
— JFREJ (@JFREJNYC) January 28, 2017
We're in the streets now outside #Terminal4 ! Crowd is uncontrollable!
— New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) January 29, 2017
In Brooklyn it's about 200+ protesting Trump's #MuslimBan #MuslimBanprotest pic.twitter.com/4tJqobOwU2
— Descendent (@descendentMC) January 29, 2017
Chicago O'Hare Airport Protests. #MuslimBan #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere #Chicago #ohare #protest #America pic.twitter.com/llxmuhKY5S
— Azi Heron (@AziHeron) January 29, 2017
SD AIRPORT Protest. Big crowd. pic.twitter.com/kcVP3Cncn6
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