PhotoFirst, reflect on the cruelty of President Trump’s decision on Friday to indefinitely suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily ban people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States. The order’s language makes clear that the xenophobia and Islamophobia that permeated Mr. Trump’s campaign are to stain his presidency as well. Un-American as they are, they are now American policy. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe unrighteousness of this new policy should be enough to prompt the courts, Congress and responsible members of Mr. Trump’s cabinet to reverse it immediately. There may be no one better positioned to force a suspension of this policy than Mr. Trump’s secretary of defense, Jim Mattis.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2017 22:42 UTC