BREAKING : Trump Doubles Down on Unvetted Refugee Ban

On Sunday President Trump doubled down on his executive order to curb the entry of unvetted refugees and legal immigrants.

President Trump correctly insists America needs “extreme vetting” to avoid the “horrible mess” elsewhere, and correctly points out that Christians deserve priority in admissions.

From Politico

Trump’s defense of his actions came as he faced escalating global pressure to rescind the order, which has sparked confusion within government agencies responsible for implementing it. A growing number of Republicans and foreign leaders chided Trump, activists kept up protests, and some judges issued rulings halting the deportation of refugees and others caught in the legal melee.

“Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world — a horrible mess!” Trump tweeted early in the morning. A few hours later, he tweeted: “More Christians in the Middle-East have been executed in large numbers. We cannot allow this horror to continue!”

Trump’s executive order, issued Friday, has many elements, but its main features include an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees, a halt to all refugee admissions to the United States, and the temporary suspension of all visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya.

The White House also initially insisted that even U.S. legal permanent residents (so-called green-card holders) who hail from those seven countries must get additional screening if they are returning to America from abroad. People of dual citizenship also are barred from entering the United States if one of their nationalities is from the seven countries.

Several protests were held Sunday, including one in front of the White House. At Dulles International Airport outside Washington, more than 100 people with signs cheered mid-day Sunday as passengers arrived on a plane from Saudi Arabia. Some of the passengers, whose exact nationalities were unclear, were obviously distressed. As they met their relatives, the crowd shouted “Welcome!” and “Glad you’re here!”

White House spokesman Sean Spicer, speaking to ABC’s “This Week,” downplayed the events by stressing that only a small number of people were affected. “There’s 325,000 people from foreign countries that traveled into the United States yesterday,” he said. “There are 109 people that this actually addressed that had come in post-entry from seven countries that we’ve identified.”

Spicer also insisted that the executive order does not amount to a ban on Muslims as some critics insist because many Muslim-majority countries are not covered by it. He further claimed that the White House told the “people that needed to know” about the order ahead of time but that much of it was kept under wraps to prevent a sudden surge of people trying to reach the United States.

“What we couldn’t do was telegraph our position ahead of time to ensure that people flooded in before that happened, before it went into place,” Spicer said. “If we had telegraphed that ahead of time, then that would have been a massive security problem.”

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway echoed Spicer’s statements on “Fox News Sunday,”saying the short-term chaos was a “small price to pay” for safety. But White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, speaking to NBC News, at times muddied the waters.

He pointed out that the number of Muslim countries covered by the order could be expanded; as it stands, nations such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, whose citizens have been involved in major terrorist attacks against the United States, aren’t affected.

Priebus also insisted that the executive order would not apply to permanent residents “moving forward,” but then said that they still may get some extra vetting at airports if they had traveled to the seven targeted countries. Priebus also denied multiple reports that Trump aides had overruled the Department of Homeland Security on the green-card issue.

“We don’t want people that are traveling back and forth to one of these seven countries that harbor terrorists to be traveling freely back and forth between the United States and those countries,” he said.

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