Follow up to previous posting of sources on the immigration ban order signed by President Trump on January 27, 2017: Via LawFare – Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order: “Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats have drafted a dissent memo expressing opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States. ABC reported this morning on the draft, which is likely to be submitted today. Here’s a copy of the actual draft. We are hearing that literally hundreds of foreign service officers are planning to be party to the dissent memo; it’s still unclear exactly how many. We have redacted all names and personally identifiable information from this document.”
Trump spokesman: Diplomats opposed to ban should ‘either get with the program or they can go’ and via The New York Times – Trump Fires Acting Attorney General After She Defies Him on Immigration Ban after via Washington Post – Acting attorney general orders Justice Dept. not to defend immigration order
- Via AP – Business reactions to executive action – The biggest companies in America react to President Donald Trump’s order barring travelers from seven predominantly Muslim
- See also via Bloomberg – Goldman Sachs Breaks With Government Sachs on Immigrant Bank – “Lloyd Blankfein, the bank’s long-time head, broke with the Trump administration over its controversial attempt to crack down on immigration…Blankfein’s comments put Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street’s most influential firms, in the unusual position of standing against a signature effort of the new administration. Since former Chairman Sidney Weinberg served in Washington during both World War II and the Korean War, the firm has sent executives into government service, earning it the Government Sachs moniker. It seldom takes a public stand against a sitting president.”
- Via Quartz – The A-to-Z guide to Silicon Valley’s backlash against Trump’s immigration ban
- Via Washington Post – In conservative media, Trump executive orders are a home run
- Via WSJ editorial: “President Trump seems determined to conduct a shock and awe campaign to fulfill his campaign promises as quickly as possible, while dealing with the consequences later. This may work for a pipeline approval, but the bonfire over his executive order on refugees shows that government by deliberate disruption can blow up in damaging ways. Mr. Trump campaigned on a promise of ‘extreme vetting’ for refugees from countries with a history of terrorism, and his focus on protecting Americans has popular support. But his refugee ban is so blunderbuss and broad, and so poorly explained and prepared for, that it has produced confusion and fear at airports, an immediate legal defeat, and political fury at home and abroad. Governing is more complicated than a campaign rally…”
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