New Jersey is home to one of the US’s largest Muslim populations. B.C. Lorio via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND The Conversation Life goes on for the parents who drop off their children at homework club, or those rushing in late for embroidery class. As usual, the community centre where I’m doing my fieldwork in northern New … Continued
BY LUCY WESTCOTT NEWSWEEK In her job as an immigration attorney, Farah Al-khersan has worked to reunite families and fight deportation hearings. On Friday night, she found herself in a similar position to some of her clients, when she and her husband were detained at the U.S. border hours after President Donald Trump signed a … Continued
By Vikki Ortiz Healy Chicago Tribune A Muslim and a Jewish father had never met before bringing their children to O’Hare International Airport Monday to join in a protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. But after a photograph showing their son and daughter interacting went viral, they decided to bring their families together next … Continued
By Dean Obeidallah The Huffington Post On Sunday evening in Quebec, a 27-year-old white French-Canadian man who had reportedly expressed anti-immigrant views and support for Donald Trump online walked into a mosque with one alleged purpose: to kill Muslims. While Muslims were in their house of worship praying, he opened fire. Instantly families scrambled to … Continued
Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., who is of Palestinian and Syrian descent, is the only Arab American GOP lawmaker to fully opposed Trump’s travel ban. He’s seen here on Sept. 19, 2015, in Mackinac Island, Mich. (Carlos Osorio/AP) By Elise Viebeck The Washington Post Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) was born in the United States, the son … Continued
By KATIE ZAVADSKI The Daily Beast The Stop One Gourmet deli on the Lower East Side has been open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for years. It didn’t even close during Superstorm Sandy that flooded its neighborhood and killed power there for a week. It had been so long, in fact, that before … Continued
DEMOCRACY NOW! We turn now to Sarsour v. Trump—a sweeping lawsuit the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed Monday challenging Trump’s executive order temporarily banning all refugees from entering the United States and banning entry into the U.S. to all 218 million citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The … Continued
By Trevor Ault KOIN6 Oregon’s most recent Republican Governor Victor Atiyeh would have opposed President Trump’s executive order to ban immigrants and refugees from seven countries, according to the governor’s biographer Jim Moore. The son of Middle Eastern immigrants, Governor Atiyeh served as Oregon’s governor from 1979 to 1987. As a member of the minority … Continued
By David Chang, Alicia Victoria Lozano and Gabe Gutierrez NBC10 A Pennsylvania family fighting to have their relatives return to the United States after they were detained at Philadelphia International Airport and sent back overseas under the immigration order told “NBC Nightly News” that they voted for Donald Trump. “I understand he wants to make … Continued
By Paul Owen The Guardian Barack Obama has broken his silence on his successor’s presidency after only 10 days, issuing a short statement that attacks Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban. “The president [Obama] fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion,” a spokesman for Obama said. Related: US … Continued
By Malachi Barrett MLive “Unlawful” and “extreme” is how West Michigan Rep. Justin Amash described President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. Amash, a second generation Arab-American and son of a Syrian immigrant to the United States, released a statement on social media Saturday afternoon. In a Facebook … Continued
By Samantha Cooney Motto Supermodels Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid were spotted in New York City protesting President Trump’s executive order on immigration this weekend. The order, which temporary suspends the Syria refugee program and visa entry from seven Muslim-majority countries, sparked demonstrations across the country. Social media users shared pictures of the Hadid sisters … Continued
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