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The use of [restrictions on travel by Americans] dates back to the Civil War but
more recently were imposed for Iran (1980-1981), Lebanon (1987-1997), Iraq
(1991-2003), Libya (1981-2004) and Cuba (1963-1977). It has been rare that
individuals violating such a restriction have been prosecuted. [July 21, 2017]
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-expected-announce-ban-tourist-travel-north-korea-n785281
January 31:"I'm very sad. I
have been waiting five years," said Mahamed Sheikhdon Iye, holding a photocopy
of his daughter's passport. Iye's family is stuck in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Mahamed Sheikhdon Iye rented a larger apartment and strapped booster seats in
his car for the arrival in Minneapolis this week of his wife and two daughters.
But Friday’s executive order on immigration put the Somalia native’s plans into
question: Airline officials told his wife she might not be able to board her
flight in Kenya this Saturday.
March 6: President Donald Trump has signed a revised travel ban that
temporarily halts entry to the U.S. for people from six Muslim-majority nations
who are seeking new visas and suspends the country's refugee program.
http://fox40.com/2017/03/06/trump-privately-signs-revised-travel-ban/
March 10: Ellison said the list of banned
countries -- Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen -- does not include
any nations that have had immigrants commit acts of terror in the US.
June 12: “Immigration, even for the
President, is not a one-person show,” the court wrote in a
per curiam opinion. “The President’s authority is subject to certain
statutory and constitutional restraints.
June 26: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday
handed a victory to President Donald Trump by reviving parts of a travel ban on
people from six Muslim-majority countries that he said is needed for national
security but that opponents decry as discriminatory ... allowing his temporary
ban to go into effect for people with no strong ties to the United States.
July 14: A federal judge in Hawaii on
Thursday expanded the list of family relationships needed by people seeking new
visas from six mostly Muslim countries to avoid
President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
September 22: The Trump administration will
unveil more tailored restrictions on travelers from certain countries as a
replacement to the controversial travel ban, according to a senior
administration official.
September 22: Civil rights and immigrant
advocacy groups are girding for the imminent implementation of the Trump
administration's new travel restrictions, an announcement about which could come
as early as Friday.
The current restrictions, affecting travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
Syria and Yemen, faced furious legal opposition and repeated injunctions by
federal courts. They were allowed to be instituted by the Supreme Court in June,
but only after certain exemptions for family members were implemented, and they
were set to expire after a 90-day period that ends Sunday.
October 10:
The US Supreme Court dismissed one of two challenges to President
Donald Trump's travel ban Tuesday night, increasing the possibility that the
justices will not hear a challenge to the President's March executive order this
term.
Trump's Justice Department has argued that both cases should be
dismissed, as new travel restrictions announced by the administration are set to
go into effect on October 18.
January 25: Will
the Supreme Court Back Trump’s Third Attempt at a Travel Ban?
Just days after his inauguration last year, Donald Trump took action to fulfill
his
campaign promise of “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the
United States.”
As word spread of the chaotic implementation of the cruel order, resistance
galvanized. Cabdrivers in New York City—many of them foreign nationals
themselves—boycotted international arrivals in solidarity with the detained
travelers.
June 26: Supreme Court rules in favor of
Trump’s travel ban
The court says the ban is a typical government policy — not an expression of
Trump’s feelings about Muslims.
In theory, the legal fight over the travel ban isn’t over, since the Supreme
Court is still instructing the 9th Circuit to rule on the merits of the ban. But
by decreeing that the legal challenges to the ban aren’t “likely to succeed” on
the merits, the court has just made it extremely difficult for the ban to get
struck down in future.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/26/17492410/travel-muslim-ban-supreme-court-ruling
June 26: Trump hails 'tremendous victory'
after supreme court upholds travel ban
June 27: India-American rights bodies
resists Donald Trump's travel ban
Top Indian-American lawmaker and right bodies have described as "troubling" the
US Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Donald Trump's controversial
travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and vowed to resist the
"hatred".
"This decision calls into question all Americans' basic rights. It sets a
standard that the president of the United States can target and discriminate
against anyone, without consequences," Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila
Jayapal said.
June 29: Special Report: As sanctions bit,
Iranian executives bought African passports
In January, the Comoros Islands quietly canceled a batch of its passports that
foreigners had bought in recent years. The tiny nation off the east coast of
Africa published no details of its reasons, saying only that the documents had
been improperly issued.
But a confidential list of the passport recipients, reviewed by Reuters,
indicates the move meant more than the government let on. Reuters found that
more than 100 of 155 people who had their Comoros passports canceled in January
were Iranians. They included senior executives of companies working in shipping,
oil and gas, and foreign currency and precious metals – all sectors that have
been targeted by international sanctions on Iran. Some had bought more than one
Comoros passport.
August 29: More Iranians 'buying' passports
in other countries to evade US travel ban, sanctions
One longtime Iraq-based, Western security expert stressed the Iranian influence
inside Iraq has become “significantly heightened” since the ISIS onslaught,
along with the establishment of a “Shia corridor” that enables unprecedented
access – from Tehran through Baghdad, onto Damascus and then Beirut, posing a
direct threat to Israel’s security.
Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in
January 2017, Google employees discussed ways they might be able to tweak the
company’s search-related functions to show users how to contribute to
pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies,
according to internal company emails.
The email traffic, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, shows that employees
proposed ways to “leverage” search functions and take steps to counter what they
considered to be “islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms
‘Islam’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Iran’, etc.” and “prejudiced, algorithmically biased search
results from search terms ‘Mexico’, ‘Hispanic’, ‘Latino’, etc.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-workers-discussed-tweaking-search-function-to-counter-travel-ban-1537488472
September 21: Exclusive: internal documents
show how hard it is for some immigrants to get a travel ban waiver
October 26: Trump administration considers
travel-ban-like order for Mexican border
The Trump administration is considering an executive action that could use
travel-ban-like authority to block certain asylum seekers at the Mexican border,
sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday.
October 31: CNN anchor Don Lemon declared
that "the biggest terror threat in this country is white men," adding that
"there is no travel ban on them" in an exchange that has prompted rebuke from
conservatives on social media.
"I keep trying to point out to people and not to demonize any one group or any
one ethnicity," Lemon said to fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo during a handoff of
their respective programs late Monday. "But we keep thinking that the biggest
terror threat is something else, someone people who are marching, you know,
towards the border, like it's imminent."
January 3:
Trump administration refuses to retract ‘highly misleading’ report used to
justify Muslim ban
President Donald Trump’s Department of
Justice is refusing to retract or correct a report that the DOJ itself admits is
misleading, The Washington Post
reported Thursday.
“Critics immediately expressed alarm at what they considered highly misleading
data presented without context,” The Post explained. “They called it an
attempt to misuse law enforcement agencies to advance a political agenda in
opposition to immigration, and former senior counterterrorism officials warned
it could play into terrorists’ hands by fueling misperceptions about
radicalization and stoking societal divides.”
For instance, the report claimed immigrants were convicted of 69,9292 sex
offenses from 2003 to 2009. That was not correct, data represented a 55 year
range from 1955 to 2010 — not six years as the administration stated.
The report also claimed that 402 of 549 individuals charged with international
terrorism following 9/11 were foreign born.
