Trump Travel Ban: 'President Must Honour Ruling'

BBC: President Donald Trump must honour the temporary nationwide block on his travel ban, the Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has said.

Earlier, Federal Judge James Robart ruled against government lawyers' claims that US states did not have the standing to challenge Mr Trump's executive order. (+ BBC video) » | Saturday, February 4, 2017

Greta Van Susteran – February 3, 2017 | Harvard Law Professor: Trump’s Travel Ban ‘Is Going to Encourage Evil’ | Sean Spicer on Trump’s Agenda

Arab-Americans in Crisis Mode over Trump’s Travel Ban

There's growing anger over Donald Trump's recent travel ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.

ACLU Lawsuit Targets President Trump’s Travel Restrictions

Steve Bannon: The Strategist behind Trump's Travel Ban

Steve Bannon has been a naval officer, an investment banker, a film producer and an executive at Breitbart News. Now he’s Donald Trump’s chief strategist and arguably the most influential man in the White House. He was reportedly behind the chaotic move to restrict immigration from certain majority Muslim countries and has called on the media to ‘keep its mouth shut’ about Trump.


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Which America?: Trump Travel Ban Polarises Nation (Parts 1 & 2)

President Donald Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Over Travel Ban Dissent | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rachel Maddow reports that Donald Trump has fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a hold-over from the Obama administration while Trump's nominee awaits confirmation, after Yates ordered DoJ lawyers not to defend Trump's travel ban. NBC's Hallie Jackson joins with further details.

White House To US Diplomats Against Travel Ban: 'Get With The Program Or Go' | NBC News

Rep. Keith Ellison: President's Executive Order Is 'Absolutely A Muslim Ban' | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., reacts to President Trump's travel ban saying it's "absolutely a Muslim ban" and it is "religiously based."

Inside Story - Anti-Muslim or Anti-Islam?

Protests across US against Trump's Immigration Ban

Tens of thousands of people have rallied across the United States to demonstrate against President Donald Trump's immigration policies. There were protests in at least 30 cities including Dallas, Los Angeles, and Boston on Sunday. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from New York City.

Stephen Miller Defends President Trump's Travel Ban

Jan. 29, 2017 - 9:29 - White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller discusses the president's ban on travel from seven countries

Negative Press for Refugee Ban

Trump targets heavily Muslim nations

Trump Travel Ban: Airport Detainees Released Following Court Order

A federal judge has ordered a stay on the deportation of any person who arrived in the US with a valid visa but were denied entry, following President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. An unknown number of people were being held in airports across the US prior to the stay being granted, some of them green-card holders

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Fareed's Take: Trump's Travel Ban

Fareed gives his take on why Trump's executive order on immigration is "fear mongering" that risks destroying the US's reputation as a beacon of hope.

France Proposes Anti-terrorist Travel Bans

BBC: The French government has proposed six-month travel bans to stop citizens travelling to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside Islamist militants.

A new offence of creating an "individual terrorist enterprise", designed to counter the threat of "lone wolves", would also be established.

Government officials say that two or three young Muslims leave France every day to join Islamist groups abroad.

There are fears they will eventually pose a threat to France itself.

A French citizen arrested for the killing of four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum in May, Mehdi Nemmouche, had returned from Syria, after being radicalised in prison.

Another French-born jihadist, Mohamed Merah, killed seven people in Toulouse in 2012 before being shot by police. His victims were three paratroopers as well as three children and a teacher at a Jewish school.

EU counter-terrorism coordinator Gille de Kerchove announced on Tuesday that interior ministers from nine countries had adopted an action plan to identify people travelling to Syria and stop them falling into terrorism on their return.

The countries that signed up to the plan are Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands » | Wednesday, June 09, 2014

Iran Imposes Travel Ban on Star Actresses

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Iran has imposed travel bans on star actresses who appear at international award ceremonies without Islamic covering, the country's chief prosecutor has said.

The announcement from Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the attorney general, represents a stern warning to the small but growing band of Iranian female film stars that their careers can be derailed for violating the Islamic regime's strict dress code when abroad.

While Mr Mohseni-Ejei, a former intelligence minister, did not mention specific actresses, his comments came in answer to journalists' questions apparently referring to Leila Hatami, star of "A Separation", which has won multiple awards this year, including an Oscar for best foreign film.

Asked at a press conference why police were "confronting" actresses who appeared at ceremonies while wearing hijab (Islamic covering), Mr Mohseni-Ejei replied: "Which person who has appeared overseas with hijab is confronted?

"Regarding this issue, a few people are banned from leaving the country. These people have been invited abroad to take part in a ceremony and under the pretext of receiving an award. Then they have been ensnared in certain people's traps.

"Those people, after taking pictures of their baits, forced them to undertake activities and based on the photographs, they have blackmailed their victims and taken them to a place where they shouldn't. Of course, some of these people, after returning to Iran, are banned from leaving the country." » | Robert Tait | Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Haven't these ayatollahs and their henchmen got anything better to do than impose travel bans on successful, attractive actresses? Their non-existent god will not thank them for it. – © Mark