How Trump Managed To Get 3 Different US Departments Fight Over Allowing Immigrants Entry Into The US
How Trump Managed To Get 3 Different US Departments To Fight Over Allowing Immigrants Entry Into The US
Within 2 weeks days of taking to his office, the US President Donald Trump has managed to get 3 different departments of government fighting with each other.
1. US Department of State - immigrants can come in
Soon after the outrage of Trump's Executive Order to ban immigrants into the US from 7 Muslim-majority countries for 90 days, a US State Department said that the country would open its immigration again after a federal judge in Seattle placed a temporary restraining order against it.
The Seattle judge, James Robart, made his ruling effective immediately on Friday, suggesting that travel restrictions could be lifted straight away.
"We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas," the State Department official said in a statement.
"Those individuals with visas that were not physically cancelled may now travel if the visa is otherwise valid."
Trump, of course, was unhappy
The judge opens up our country to potential terrorists and others that do not have our best interests at heart. Bad people are very happy!
¡ª Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
2. Department of Homeland Security said they will "resume inspection of travellers in accordance with standard policy and procedure"
In accordance w/ judge's ruling, DHS has suspended all actions implementing affected sections of the @POTUS EO (1/3) https://t.co/3jHRSI9W7O
¡ª Homeland Security (@DHSgov) February 4, 2017
"We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas," a US State Department spokesman said.
What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?
¡ª Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
In a brief press release, the Department said they have "suspended any and all actions implementing the affected sections of the Executive Order". The department had said some 60,000 travel visas had been revoked in compliance with the president's recent executive order.
3. Department of Justice filed an appeal against lifting the travel ban
Reuters
The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!
¡ª Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
The Justice Department has appealed against the Seattle's judge's order blocking Trump's travel ban citing the "sovereign prerogative" of a president to admit or exclude aliens. The appeal says it's a basic principle, that "an alien seeking initial admission to the United States requests a privilege and has no constitutional rights regarding his application."
President Donald Trump said the Justice Department will win an appeal filed late Saturday of a judge's order lifting a travel ban he had imposed on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries.
"We'll win. For the safety of the country, we'll win," he told reporters at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, shortly after the Justice Department filed a notice that it intends to appeal the order.