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Iraq Votes to Ban Americans in Response to Trump’s Immigration Order

We’re not welcome now?

Iraq’s lawmakers have voted in favor of a reciprocal travel ban on U.S. citizens if President Donald Trump’s administration does not rescind its decision to prohibit the entry of Iraqis.

When Barack Obama blocked Iraqi refugees from entering the United States for six months in 2011, the Baghdad-based parliament took no action.

On Monday, Iraqi lawmakers voted to call on the Shiite-led Baghdad government to “respond in kind to the American decision in the event that the American side does not to withdraw its decision,” reports Agence France-Presse (AFP), citing Iraqi member of parliament (MP) Hakim al-Zamili, who quoted the text of the decision that was read during the parliamentary session.

“Parliament voted by majority on calling on the Iraqi government and the foreign ministry to respond in kind,” declared MP Zamili.

Iraqi MP Sadiq al-Laban reportedly confirmed that “the vote was for a call on the government” to enact a reciprocal ban.

Al Jazeera points out, “The [Iraqi parliament] vote on Monday is not thought to be binding on the government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, whose government has made no official comment on the order.”

Haider’s foreign ministry has urged the Trump administration to review the ban.

The recent vote by Iraqi lawmakers came in response to President Trump’s executive orderto ban citizens traveling on passports from seven Muslim-majority nations — Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen — from entering the United States for at least 90 days in an effort to strengthen America’s refugee vetting process.

“Importantly, however, Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States [green card holders]… will be allowed to board U.S. bound aircraft and will be assessed for exceptions at arrival ports of entry, as appropriate. The entry of these individuals, subject to national security checks, is in the national interest,” notes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in explaining the executive order, which President Trump signed on Friday.

The executive order also allows the U.S. government to “prioritize refugee claims” from members of persecuted religious minorities in the predominantly Muslim countries covered under the ban, such as Christians and Yazidis.

In 2011, then-President Obama instituted a similar ban, although it is unclear if it included the religious minority exception.

There were neither protests nor backlash from the mainstream media in response to Obama’s measure.

A 2013 article by ABC News, titled “Exclusive: US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees,” revealed:

As a result of the Kentucky case, the [Obama] State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News — even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets. One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 Iraqis were resettled as refugees in the U.S., half the number from the year before, State Department statistics show.

The Kentucky case refers to the discovery in 2009 of two al-Qaeda Iraqi terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green who ultimately admitted in court that they had attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

One of those terrorists, Waad Ramadan Alwan, entered the United States through Syria.

Moreover, the seven nations covered by the order, including Iraq, had been previously identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.

“These seven countries were designated by Congress and the Obama Administration as posing a significant enough security risk to warrant additional scrutiny in the visa waiver context,” notes DHS.

Unlike President Trump, Obama failed to announce his temporary ban on Iraqi refugees, which the leftist mainstream media has interpreted as meaning that it was not the former president’s policy to temporarily halt the entry of Iraqi refugees because he never took ownership of the measure.

The recent Iraqi parliament vote echoes calls from Iran for a reciprocal travel ban on American citizens.

According to the Independent, the Iran-backed Shiite militia coalition dubbed the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and Hashd al-Shaabi, has also been critical of Trump’s national security policy, “calling for a ban on issuing visas to Americans visiting the country and for those already in Iraq to be expelled.”

Shiite powerhouse Iran has also vowed to implement legal, political, and reciprocal measures in response to the U.S. policy, announced the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on Saturday.

The Shiite-led Baghdad government is close to Iran.

“We are against this stance from the new administration,” said Iraqi MP Laban, referring to Trump’s national security order, adding, “We hope that the American administration will rethink… this decision.”

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/01/30/iraq-lawmakers-vote-ban-us-citizens-now-not-obama-paused-refugee-program/

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Scumbag Media Can’t Stop Talking About Assassinating Trump

Gainor: ‘Terrifying’ That Media Are Talking Openly About Assassinating Trump

Scumbag media should go to prison for talking about killing our president, damit!

Dan Gainor, the vice president of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss some of the media’s most egregious examples of bias.

“The idea that we can now have open discussion of an assassination … this is terrifying for me that we see media people talking about the assassination of the President,” said Gainor, while talking about a recent media incident reported by Breitbart News:

Times columnist and author India Knight has called for the assassination of U.S. President, Donald J. Trump.

During a days-long invective against the newly inaugurated President on Twitter in which Knight called Mr. Trump a “moron,” “mad,” “needy,” and an “arse,” among other things, before telling him to “shut up,” she mused, “The assassination is taking such a long time.

On Monday, Gainor continued, “And this is not the first time. British media people like to talk about assassinating the President.”

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/01/30/gainor-terrifying-media-talking-openly-assassinating-trump/

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Global Liberals Oppose President Donald Trump’s Ban On Muslims

We Must Stop That Bastard Trump

Global opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump intensified on Sunday, as world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced his decision to limit entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the name of fighting terrorism.

Trudeau, in a tweet, said Canada would welcome those fleeing “persecution, terror and war. Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith.” Merkel expressed her concerns about the temporary ban during a call with Trump on Saturday, her chief spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

The chancellor “is convinced that the necessary, decisive fight against terrorism doesn’t justify placing people of a particular origin or faith under general suspicion,” Seibert said on Twitter, adding that Merkel had told Trump that international law requires states to “take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds.”

The condemnations signal the growing concern among some U.S. allies about the direction of foreign policy under Trump, and its impact on key issues from Middle East stability to climate change and global trade. Relations between Mexico and the U.S. have broken down over Trump’s plans to build a wall along their border, while the president’s repeated suggestion that NATO is obsolete has alarmed governments in Europe.

Criticism of the travel ban also extended beyond the world of politics: Netflix Inc.’s chief executive officer said the changes were “un-American.” Alphabet Inc.’s Google advised staff who may be affected by the order to return to the U.S. immediately.

‘Extreme Vetting’

“Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW,” Trump toldhis almost 23 million Twitter followers early Sunday, after two judges temporarily blocked his administration from enforcing portions of the order that would have led to the removal from U.S. airports of refugees, visa holders and legal U.S. residents from the seven countries.

Neither ruling strikes down the executive order, which will now be subject to court hearings.

Under the order, the admission of all refugees would be suspended for 120 days. Citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya would be banned from entering the U.S. for 90 days, while the government determines what information it needs to safely admit visitors.

‘Visible Insult’

The ban is a “visible insult” to Muslims and Iran “will reciprocate with legal, consular and political undertakings,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency said. Iran also summoned Switzerland’s ambassador in Tehran in his capacity as the head of U.S. interests in the country, the Iranian Students’ News Agency reported. The U.S. and Iran haven’t had formal diplomatic ties since shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Sudan also summoned the U.S. envoy to protest the ban, the state-run Sudan New Agency reported.

“We do not agree with this kind of approach and it is not one we will be taking,” U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday in a statement, two days after meeting Trump to begin work on a trade accord. Her earlier refusal to condemn the order unleashed a flood of criticism in the U.K., including from some of her own Conservative Party colleagues.

May held a conference call on Sunday with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Amber Rudd, instructing them to raise concerns about the ban with their U.S. counterparts in the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, according to her office. Johnson said on Twitter it was “divisive and wrong to stigmatize because of nationality.”

‘Shameful’

London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, on Facebook called the ban “shameful and cruel” and said the new policy “flies in the face of the values of freedom and tolerance that the USA was built upon.” Mexico’s former President Vicente Fox said on Twitter that the executive order had “united the world” against Trump.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said refugees deserve a safe haven regardless of their background or religion, while Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said the U.S. decision was unfair.

“The new U.S. president has taken office and his first acts in office show that he’s apparently serious,” German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told a crowd of supporters at the Social Democrat Party headquarters in Berlin on Sunday. “We as Germans and Europeans would do well rely on our own strengths and not to look out into the world with fear and submissiveness.”

U.S. Democrats labeled it a “Muslim ban” and criticized it as inhumane. Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, likened the order to the country’s slow response to the Holocaust prior to U.S. entry into World War II.

“Faced with the humanitarian crisis of our time, the United States cannot turn its back on children fleeing persecution, genocide and terror,” Durbin said in a statement calling Trump’s order a “ban on Muslims in the United States.”

“During the Holocaust we failed to fulfill our duty to humanity,” he said. “We cannot allow mindless fear to lead us into another regretful chapter in our history.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-29/trump-order-on-refugee-limits-draws-iran-retaliation-threat

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Trump Signs 3 New Orders: Defeat ISIS, Ban Lobbying and NSC Reorg

President Donald J. Trump signed three new executive actions on Saturday afternoon, including a five year lobbying ban, reorganization of the National Security Council, and a plan to defeat the Islamic State.

From the Oval Office, President Trump signed the documents while surrounded by reporters, advisers, and his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

Regarding the lobbying ban, Trump said:

So this is a five year lobbying ban, and this is all of the people — most of the people standing behind me will not be able to go to work.

It’s a two year ban now and it’s got full of loopholes and this is a five year ban. So you have one last chance to get out. Good, I had a feeling you were going to say that.

This was something, the five year ban, that I have been taking a lot about on the campaign trail.

Ahead of the signing, a senior administration official indicated that the lobbying ban included not only a five year ban on administration officials, but a lifetime ban on administration officials lobbying for a foreign country.

After signing the document to reorganize the National Security Council, the President said, “This is the organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council, you know pretty much what it represents, it represents a lot, and also a lot of efficiency and I think a lot of additional safety. People have been talking about this for a long time, like many years.”

President Trump signed the ISIS plan, after which he said, “This is the plan to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in other words ISIS. I think it’s going to be very successful. That’s big stuff.”

The White House senior administration official also said ahead of the signing that the executive action regarding ISIS would give military leaders 30 days to compile and present a report to the President on a strategy to defeat ISIS.

The President responded to questions about Friday’s executive order on immigration after signing each of the three executive actions, stating, “It’s not a Muslim ban, but we were totally prepared. It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/28/3-new-presidential-actions-lobbying-ban-defeat-isis-plan-national-security-council-reorganization/

 

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Trump & Putin, Two Alpha Males Ready to Kick ISIS Ass

World’s Top Bad-Assess

Trump and Putin have first official phone conversation amid European anxiety about future relations

President Trump made a flurry of phone calls to world leaders Saturday as he began shaping his new administration’s foreign policy, but none was as anxiously anticipated as the first official president-to-president contact with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

As his top aides looked on, Trump sat in the Oval Office and spoke with the Russian president on his desk phone, at one point peering out the windows at the White House journalists watching from across the Rose Garden.

The pair discussed combating terrorism, confronting Islamic State militants, the crisis in Ukraine and the Iranian nuclear deal, according to a statement from the Kremlin. Moscow said the topic of easing U.S. sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea did not come up.

And the men agreed to a set a possible date and venue for a personal meeting, and vowed to maintain “regular personal contacts,” the Kremlin statement said.

In its own statement after the one-hour phone call, the White House said, “The positive call was a significant start to improving the relationship between the United States and Russia that is in need of repair. Both President Trump and President Putin are hopeful that after today’s call the two sides can move quickly to tackle terrorism and other important issues of mutual concern.”

Trump’s budding relationship with Putin is certain to be one of the most closely watched of his administration, both at home and around the world.

Trump has alarmed European leaders and U.S. lawmakers from both parties with his praise and unusually friendly overtures toward the Russian leader, whom much of the world considers an authoritarian who has taken increasingly aggressive actions in Europe and the Middle East.

And Trump’s oft-stated desire to improve relations with Russia comes despite the recent conclusion by American intelligence agencies that Russia hacked into the email systems of U.S. political organizations last year in an audacious bid to interfere with the presidential election and help Trump.

Trump said Friday that having Russia as an ally “would be an asset.” He says Russia can help the U.S. defeat Islamic State militants in Syria, even though Putin’s priority so far in Syria has not been attacking Islamic State but supporting his ally Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is opposed by the U.S.

Trump’s pick for secretary of State, America’s top diplomat, has further cemented the concerns. Rex Tillerson, the former chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil, has acknowledged a close relationship with Putin, honed through years of multibillion-dollar deals for oil exploration and drilling in Russia.

Both Trump and Tillerson have been less than enthusiastic about economic sanctions imposed on Russia after Putin invaded Ukraine and annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014. Trump even suggested the U.S. could lift the sanctions if Russia agreed to compromise on nuclear arms, an unrelated matter.

Alexei Pushkov, a Russian senator and former chairman of the parliamentary foreign relations committee, said Saturday that the phone call marked the start of a new, closer U.S.-Russia relationship.

“The Trump-Putin conversation will give a new beginning to the fight against [Islamic State], a solution of the crises in Syria, Ukraine. Merkel only has old solutions,” he tweeted, referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Trump supporters said that his outreach toward Russia was intended to curb Putin’s aggressive behavior.

“I do think they are going into this with a general negotiating tactic: Offer Russia a chance to back off and not be antagonistic,” said James Jay Carafano, a senior fellow at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, who briefed Trump on foreign affairs during the transition. “That is different from placating [Putin] and giving him whatever he wants.”

In addition to the chat with Putin, Trump made phone calls Saturday to four other world leaders: Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

And the president kept up his frenetic pace of executive action by signing new directives that put his own imprint on the national security apparatus.

Trump signed executive actions to reorganize the National Security Council and to direct the joint chiefs of staff to present him with a plan to defeat Islamic State.

He also issued a five-year ban preventing people who work for him from lobbying his administration after they leave it.

The action came right on the heels of an executive order Friday closing U.S. borders to refugees from around the world and temporarily halting immigration from several mostly Muslim countries.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-putin-phone-call-20170128-story.html

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Trump Blocks Goat Humping Pedophiles (GHPs) From Entry

Just like he said he would do, damit! Keeping these fuckers out

MUSLIM air travellers were refused entry to America yesterday as Donald Trump’s immigration ban kicked in, causing airport chaos.

Several were in transit when President Trump signed the order placing a 90-day pause on immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries.

Among them were an ­Iranian scientist heading for Boston and visa-holder ­Hameed Khalid Darweesh, an Iraqi translator working with US troops.

Hameed was held for 17 hours at New York’s JFK Airport before he was allowed to join his family, who were admitted.

Eleven others were still being held at JFK last night as protesters gathered outside to condemn the Muslim ban and a 120-day suspension on taking in refugees.

An untold number of foreign-born US residents now travelling outside the country could be stuck overseas for at least three months, while many who are in the country cannot leave.

Those already in the US with a visa or green card would be allowed to stay, according to one official, who wished to remain anonymous.

Among those also believed to be affected is Olympic hero Mo Farah, who is a British passport holder but was born in Somalia – one of seven countries to which travel restrictions apply.

It emerged late on Saturday that the restrictions would also apply to people with dual citizenship – including Brits.

The gold medal-winner – who now lives in the US – is understood to be away training in Ethiopia – meaning he may not be able to return home to his family.

The Sun contacted Farah’s representatives for comment.

A Tory MP and his wife are also among those affected by the travel ban.

Nadhim Zahawi, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon, today revealed he and his wife were both unable to travel to the US because they were born in Iraq.

He wrote on Twitter: “What if you are British of Iraqi origin, as I am? A sad sad day to feel like a second class citizen! Sad day for the USA.”

The politician later followed this up with a second post, tweeting: “Had confirmation that the order does apply to myself and my wife as we were both born in Iraq. Even if we are not dual Nat.”

Officials in Egypt also prevented seven migrants from boarding a flight to the US yesterday.

There were also fears last night that Iranian film director Asghar Farhadi, 45, will not be allowed to attend next month’s Oscars. He is up for a Best Foreign Film Academy Award for The Salesman. He won the category in 2012.

Iran, one of the seven nations barred by Mr Trump, called the ban an insult. It vowed to block all US citizens from entering its country in response. In Turkey, PM Theresa May refused three times to condemn the US stand. But after arriving back from Ankara her spokesman said: “We do not agree with this kind of approach.”

Trump said the ban was “working out very nicely”

Some of the chaos and confusion was blamed on the Trump administration, which has yet to issue guidance to airlines on how to implement the executive order.

A senior Homeland Security official told NBC News: “Nobody has any idea what is going on.”

All over the world there was chaos at airports as the ban came into force.

Seven people – six Iraqis and a Yemeni – were stopped from boarding a flight from Cairo, Egypt, to New York despite having valid visas to travel to America.

Some of the chaos and confusion was blamed on the Trump administration, which has yet to issue guidance to airlines on how to implement the executive order.

A senior Homeland Security official told NBC News: “Nobody has any idea what is going on.”

All over the world there was chaos at airports as the ban came into force.

Seven people – six Iraqis and a Yemeni – were stopped from boarding a flight from Cairo, Egypt, to New York despite having valid visas to travel to America.

The ban sparked panic when it came into effect at 4.30pm on Friday with many passengers left in legal limbo as to whether or not their valid visas would be accepted if they tried to enter the US.

Two of the first people blocked from entering the United States were Iraqis with links to the US military.

Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi were detained by immigration officials after landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday night.

One of them, Hameed Khalid Darweesh – who worked as an interpreter for the US Army in Iraq – was released on Saturday afternoon.

After being detained for nearly 19 hours, he began to cry as he hugged friends and protesters in emotional scenes.

He told reporters: “What I do for this country? They put the cuffs on.

“You know how many soldiers I touch by this hand?”

The other man, Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, still remains in custody as lawyers argue for his release.

As well as Alshawi , 10 others remain detained at JFK, according to Democratic congressman Jerrold Nadler, who went to the airport to press for the release of the first two men.

Nadler told CNN: “It is certainly mean-spirited and ill conceived. It is certainly an instance of religious discrimination.”

A spontaneous protest began outside the airport, rapidly growing in size.

Demonstrators chanted and waved placards as it was announced that legal challenges were being launched.

Google are understood to have recalled all their staff travelling abroad back to America over visa fears.

Bloomberg News reports that a memo sent to Google’s staff stated that over 100 employees were affected by the situation.

The memo, written by the tech giant’s CEO Sundar Pichai, read: “It’s painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues.

“We’ve always made our view on immigration issues known publicly and will continue to do so.”

The new ban was introduced by the Republican president yesterday as part of a move that he described as allowing for “extreme vetting” and to “keep terrorists out”.

Trump’s executive order places a ban on travel to the US by people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia for 90 days.

He has also suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days.

Visiting the State Department on Friday, Trump said: “We are establishing new vetting measures, to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America.”

He added: “We don’t want ‘em here. We want to ensure we aren’t admitting into our country the very threats that our men and women are fighting overseas.”

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Donald Trump’s potential list of countries that have travel restrictions placed on them

  • Syria – Ravaged by civil war for nearly six years, the lawless country is the home base and training centre for a host of terror groups, including ISIS and the formerly Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front.
  • Iraq – Unstable since the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, ISIS took over swathes of the country with ease in 2014, taking advantage of the sympathetic Sunni minority that made the same areas a breeding ground for Al Qaeda during the anti-West insurgency.
  • Iran – A radical Islamist republic since the 1979 revolution – remembered by many in America for the hostage crisis after the country’s embassy in Tehran was stormed – Iran was branded “the foremost sponsor of terrorism in 2015” by the US State Department.
  • Libya – Essentially a failed state since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has seen jihadi groups flourish in recent years, with between seven and nine radical organisations believed to be operating there, according to one US official.
  • Somalia – Arguably the world most famous and longest-running failed state, with no effective government since 1991. Home to infamous jihadi group Al Shabbab.
  • Sudan – Previously on the State Department’s list of terror sponsors and still a supporter of Palestinian terror group Hamas. Previously used as a transit point for Brit jihadis looking to travel to Syria.
  • Yemen – A long-time haven for Al Qaeda and now with a growing ISIS presence since the country was carved in two by the recent civil war which broke out in 2014.

The move by the new US president has drawn heavy criticism.

Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012 to stop her campaigning for girls’ education and co-winner of the 2014, said she is “heartbroken” by the ban.

She released a statement saying: “I am heartbroken that today President Trump is closing the door on children, mothers and fathers fleeing violence and war.”

And Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg slammed the ban, saying: “We need to keep this country safe, but we should do that by focusing on people who actually pose a threat.”

But in Turkey, PM Theresa May refused three times to condemn the travel restrictions.

At a press conference in Ankara, she would only say: “The US is responsible for its policy.”

But the president defended the order, telling reporters it was “not a Muslim ban”.

He said: “It’s working out very nicely. We’re going to have a very, very strict ban and we’re going to have extreme vetting, which we should have had in this country for many years.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2728876/donald-trump-muslim-ban-airlines-turning-passengers-away-detained-amid-protests-legal-challenges/