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People Are Posting Their Refugee Stories After Trump’s #MuslimBan, And They’ll Break Your Heart
When Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday banning citizens of Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, and suspending the Refugee Admissions Program, he did a lot more than just anger migrant crisis activists.
The Muslim ban order has left legal US residents stranded in their home countries, or in airports along the way, simply because they hold passports from Iran, Iraq, or one of five other countries on Trump's list. These are people with homes, family, and friends in the US whom they are now separated from for at least 90 days, all in the name of preventing "foreign terrorist entry." Let's not forget about the thousands of refugees in Syria and elsewhere whose dreams of finding safety and peace are now crushed, and who may very well meet their deaths before the anti-Muslim ban is lifted.
Massive equal rights protests erupted at major airports across the nation, and the Trump administration is already buried in lawsuits related to the travel restrictions. Parts of the ban preventing the movement of Green-card holders have reportedly been lifted, but the President's discriminating actions have already torn apart families across the world and doomed the lives of others.
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Beth Gauldie 8 years ago
That is absolutely awful. I'm so sorry this is happening to you. If you don't matter in the US, come to NZ. You'll matter to us here!
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Hans 8 years ago
It is not just this ban, but most kinds of nationalism, protectionism, banning, or in sum easy solutions to complex problems that will do more harm than good. Just look at the Brexit. The world is too complex to just say that is black and what is white and to try to only have one of them.
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Karin Ahrenhold 8 years ago
I hope every one makes it back ok and as soon as possible! Best wishes from Germany!
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Superluminal1 8 years ago
More than 10,000 people are killed with guns each year in the US, yet Trump refuses the idea of a registry for gun owners.
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Superluminal1 8 years ago
Zero fatal attacks were carried out by immigrants from the seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by the ban.
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Martz Migraña 8 years ago
How is it possible Trump can't see how much pain is going to cause (or, better say, remain cold as ice at it)?!!
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Benny Lava 8 years ago
Not just one crazy man but millions of crazy people who voted for him knowing very well of his agenda. And the millions of people who are elated with his muslim ban right now. Don't just blame him for what's happening. Hitler was democratically voted chancellor too. They want exactly what is happening right now and what is going to happen in the next 4 years, that's why they voted for him. Half of America is rotten to the core.
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Shalane Clayton 8 years ago
I have no words . . . the America we get back (if she survives) in four years will be a very different country if this is allowed to continue.
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Kim Athanasiou 8 years ago
I pity your pathetic outlook on life MK, I hope someone shows you the same narrow minded attitude you seem so intent on sharing.
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Lysiane Pons 8 years ago
Zuckerberg should ban Trump from Facebook, maybe that would get his attention.
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Lalita 8 years ago
Why this piece of garbage is here?? This guy posted this tweet before the US order touched him personally: Untitled2-...3c-png.jpg 
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Brigita Kučinskaitė 8 years ago
https://www.boredpanda.com/empathy-message-for-people-who-are-affected-by-mr-trumps-executive-order/
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Chris Miilu 8 years ago
This is a sad reminder of Hitler's Germany after 1939. There were a few who got out early, went to Portugal where they could sail for the U.S. Some got to England via merchant ships and fishing trawlers. The Netherlands hid Jews, and many small towns suffered the consequences; their mayors were hung in the public square. Austria and Poland did not protect their Jews who had lived there since birth. Homes and shops were looted, bank accounts were frozen and looted. I don't know what will happen to those stranded in airports. Their homes and incomes are gone; they have no way to return, and no way to move forward. This man, Trump, is a descendant of a German named Drumft who came here and made a real estate fortune. Trump is German; his wife is an immigrant with a fake visa. His oldest son is in Mumbai bribing officials to erect a Tower on land fill. Tillerson's long friendship with Putin will destroy NATO.
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Joan 8 years ago
I am astonished to see how some Americans, now we can safely separate the good ones from the bad ones by calling the latter lot "trumpers", do not seem to grasp the fact that AMERICA, oh great HOMELAND, exists beacuse of immigrants of all sorts (called colonists), and if someone were to study their genealogy they'll discover that they are every bit American as a teabag (pun intended). Banning won't stop crazy people from blowing things up or from killing others and it certainly "won't make America great again" simply because Trump chose to point the finger and blame on an entire ethnicity. In my opinion the real danger here is a r******d entitled prick who somehow made it to the presidential chair.
Ehsan Es 8 years ago
The amount of people in the comments agreeing with Trump is really troubling.
Lorelei 8 years ago
What a big surprise ! People have differing opinions about the same subject!
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Justyna 8 years ago
In my country, if you even want to go on a simple vacation to the US, you are totally humiliated in the American embassy before you get the stupid visa... What is this country, a promised land?! I don't think so. I can spend my money somewhere else, but I'm furious that there are still places where I'm considered WORSE.
Sheralyn 8 years ago
Justyna, don't bother. Lots of cheaper places to go that are just as good for tourists. Perhaps try Australia? Do you need to undergo an interview for Aus? :)
Load More Replies... Joan 8 years ago
I am astonished to see how some Americans, now we can safely separate the good ones from the bad ones by calling the latter lot "trumpers", do not seem to grasp the fact that AMERICA, oh great HOMELAND, exists beacuse of immigrants of all sorts (called colonists), and if someone were to study their genealogy they'll discover that they are every bit American as a teabag (pun intended). Banning won't stop crazy people from blowing things up or from killing others and it certainly "won't make America great again" simply because Trump chose to point the finger and blame on an entire ethnicity. In my opinion the real danger here is a r******d entitled prick who somehow made it to the presidential chair.
Ehsan Es 8 years ago
The amount of people in the comments agreeing with Trump is really troubling.
Lorelei 8 years ago
What a big surprise ! People have differing opinions about the same subject!
Load More Replies... Justyna 8 years ago
In my country, if you even want to go on a simple vacation to the US, you are totally humiliated in the American embassy before you get the stupid visa... What is this country, a promised land?! I don't think so. I can spend my money somewhere else, but I'm furious that there are still places where I'm considered WORSE.
Sheralyn 8 years ago
Justyna, don't bother. Lots of cheaper places to go that are just as good for tourists. Perhaps try Australia? Do you need to undergo an interview for Aus? :)
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