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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGlobal backlash grows against Trump's immigration order
World News | Sun Jan 29, 2017 | 2:53pm EST
Global backlash grows against Trump's immigration order
By Maher Chmaytelli and Lin Noueihed | BAGHDAD/CAIRO
A global backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration curbs gathered strength on Sunday as several countries including long-standing American allies criticized the measures as discriminatory and divisive.
Governments from London and Berlin to Jakarta and Tehran spoke out against Trump's order to put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily ban travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries. He said the move would help protect Americans from terrorism.
In Germany - which has taken in large numbers of people fleeing the Syrian civil war - Chancellor Angela Merkel said the global fight against terrorism was no excuse for the measures and "does not justify putting people of a specific background or faith under general suspicion", her spokesman said.
She expressed her concerns to Trump during a phone call and reminded him that the Geneva Conventions require the international community to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds, the spokesman added.
Merkel's sentiments were echoed in Paris and London; "Terrorism knows no nationality. Discrimination is no response," said French Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, while his British counterpart Boris Johnson tweeted: "Divisive and wrong to stigmatize because of nationality."
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Global backlash grows against Trump's immigration order (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2017
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JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)1. Criticizing isn't enough
They must impose sanctions.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)2. It's only been a day; this isn't over. nt
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)3. Trumpers say people "freaking out" means Trump is doing something right.
But that's because Trumpers are ignorant tools.
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babylonsister
(171,070 posts)6. What has he done right?
People wouldn't be freaking out if he was normal, which he's not.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)7. Nothing yet so far as I can tell. n/t
Warpy
(111,277 posts)4. From the UK, where there is a petition against a Trump visit
Cha
(297,322 posts)5. Yep.. the world got it.. America fucked up by letting
this asshole hear the oval office.