With secession threats looming, the state of California is reportedly studying ways to suspend financial transfers to Washington after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities.
With California counties among the Top 10 who stand to lose tax-payer funding for providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants...
Benjamin Netanyahu has tweeted his support for President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the US border with Mexico. The Israeli Prime Minister said on Saturday that the proposal was a ‘great idea’ alongside images of the Israeli and American flags. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration,” Netanyahu said. President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success.
President Trump is set to unveil three new executive orders at 3pm on Saturday which according to the White House press pool will include an order to reorganize the National Security Council's procedures and structure, an order to make the White House's NSC more adaptive to cyber threats, and will also seek a Joint Chiefs plan to defeat the Islamic State.
Today's actions will bring the total number of executive orders signed by Trump since taking office to 17. A summary list of the previous fourteen, courtesy of Politico, is presented below.
Politicians, rights groups and activists from around the world have criticized US president Donald Trump’s crackdown on refugee and visitors from Muslim-majority countries. European leaders, along with the United Nations and international groups slammed Trump’s new executive orders against refugees and travellers from several countries across the Middle East and North Africa. In America, Democrats also condemned Trump’s orders, saying it would tarnish the country’s reputation.
Trump's sweeping, and immediately enforced ban on people seeking refuge in the United States and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries which will last at least three months has caused what Reuters dubs "chaos, panic and anger" - as well as lawsuits - not only among travelers on Saturday - with some denied entry to the US and turned back from U.S.-bound flights - but also among US allies such as France and Germany.