Travel Ban

Trump’s New Executive Order Is Still A Muslim Ban

(ANALYSIS) — President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order temporarily banning all refugees, as well as people from six majority-Muslim countries, from entering the United States.
In contrast to the fanfare that accompanied Trump’s rollout of January’s ill-fated travel ban, Monday’s signing was a decidedly more low-key event. Trump signed the executive order out of public view. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later outlined the details.

Trump Halts Travel In New Executive Order

21st Century Wire says…
After President Donald J. Trump’s previous visa suspension was blocked by federal courts, he has fulfilled his vow to overturn this by introducing a new Executive Order temporarily blocking travel to the US for residents of six Muslim-majority countries pending revision of visa procedures. The order halts the issuance of new US visas to citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for the next 90 days.

Trump Signs New Travel Ban Targeting New Visas, Ending U.S. Refugee Program.

In this March 1, 2017, President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)
 
WASHINGTON (REPORT) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a new version of his controversial travel ban, aiming to withstand court challenges while still barring new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries and shutting down the U.S. refugee program.

5 Signs We’re Headed Toward a Major War

(ANTIMEDIA) In January of this year, former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that the whole world is preparing for war. There are many indicators that back up Gorbachev’s assertion, but to discuss them in their entirety would take a dissertation or two. Instead, we have put together a list of the five most obvious signs of impending war currently being overlooked by the media. As a result of these oversights, the public is also missing them.
1. Travel Ban

Egyptian-Born Holocaust Scholar Interrogated, Detained At Houston Airport For 10 Hours

The French historian, Henry Rousso, seen here in 2011. (Photo: BALTEL/SIPA)
(REPORT) — Henry Rousso, a French historian and a prominent scholar on the Holocaust, said he was detained for more than 10 hours by federal border agents at a Houston airport and was almost deported for being an “illegal” immigrant before his lawyers and an official at the school he was visiting intervened on his behalf.

Contradicting Trump, Defense Secretary Says US ‘Not In Iraq To Seize Anybody’s Oil’

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, center, is greeted by U.S. Ambassador Douglas Silliman as he arrives at Baghdad International Airport on an unannounced trip Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. (AP/Lolita Baldor)
(REPORT) — The United States is not about to plunder Iraq’s oil, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said as he arrived in Baghdad on Monday and sought to soothe partners rattled by remarks from President Donald Trump.