The Dig: Fighting the Trump Bans: Linda Sarsour and Nicholas Espíritu
The depravity of Donald Trump’s fear-mongering, xenophobic, anti-Muslim politics are now in full swing.
The new president has barred people from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — including, to an unclear and ultimately-walked back degree, lawful permanent residents, from entering the United States for ninety days. All refugees are barred for 120 days, and refugees from Syria are barred indefinitely.
What’s gotten less attention, but is also quite serious, is that Trump slashed the overall number of refugees slated to be admitted this year…
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