‘It’s working out very nicely’: Trump insists Muslim ban is going well
Despite the chaos and confusion that has taken place since President Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim countries from entering the US, the president claims the ban is “working out very nicely.”
The Republican president put a four-month hold on letting refugees into the country and temporarily banned those traveling from those seven countries.
Various groups around the country have promised to fight the order.
After a day of people being detained in airports all across the country, a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, granted a short reprieve. The ACLU successfully fought for a temporary stay that will allow those being detained to stay in the US.
This was welcome news to those protesting the ban at airports and other places around the country.
The next step for Trump is to set up “extreme vetting” for immigrants and refugees.
Trump claimed that his order was “not a Muslim ban” and claimed that these measures were long overdue.
“It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over,” Trump said, seemingly ignoring the multitudes of protesters.
The order affects people from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
— Trump’s Muslim ban excludes Muslim countries linked to his business empire —
In all, 375 people have been affected by the order, and 109 of them were in transit when they were denied entry into the US. The rest were not permitted on the plane in the first place.
“I don’t think anyone is going to take this lying down,” stated Cleveland immigration lawyer David Leopold.
“This is the tip of the spear and more litigation is coming.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the order will stay in place.
“No foreign national in a foreign land, without ties to the United States, has any unfettered right to demand entry into the United States,” according to the department statement.
Mark Krikorian, the director of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies, has said that he considers the lawsuits springing up to be “last ditch efforts” that will not apply to most travelers. He also said that challenging the ban based on a constitutional argument will be a hard win.
“The first amendment doesn’t apply to foreigners living abroad. The law explicitly says the president can exclude any person or class of people he wants,” Krikorian stated.
