This CNN report shows what an utter mess Trumps immigration order rollout was
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This CNN report shows what an utter mess Trump’s immigration order rollout was
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/28/14428190/trump-immigration-refugee-steve-bannon
Updated by Andrew Prokopandrew@vox.com Jan 28, 2017, 11:01pm EST
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Trump’s sweeping executive order on immigrants has already led to a great deal of chaotic fallout — and we’re now learning that the process of putting the order together was equally chaotic.
A new report from CNN’s Evan Perez and Pamela Brown finds that the White House specifically pushed to have green card holders included in the order, even after Homeland Security offered a different legal interpretation of the order — after the order had already been issued.
Friday night, DHS arrived at the legal interpretation that the executive order restrictions applying to seven countries -- Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen -- did not apply to people who with lawful permanent residence, generally referred to as green card holders.
The White House overruled that guidance overnight, according to officials familiar with the rollout. That order came from the President's inner circle, led by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon. Their decision held that, on a case by case basis, DHS could allow green card holders to enter the US.
Steve Bannon is the chief White House strategist and former Breitbart chief, while Stephen Miller is a former Jeff Sessions aide who now serves as the top policy aide in Trump’s White House. And according to this report it is the two of them — Trump’s “two Steves,” as he calls them — who are deciding how this executive order text should be interpreted, and holding the fates of hundreds of thousands of green card holders in their hands.
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