“Now it only has to pump out our press releases to prove that.”Mr. Trump’s executive order will alienate the pro-Western elites that Americans turn to for help in Muslim countries, Mr. Crocker said. Refugees from Syria, whom Mr. Trump portrayed during his election campaign as potential Islamic State infiltrators, will be barred indefinitely from the country. There have been numerous reports of Muslims being harassed in the United States since Mr. Trump’s election. On Friday, Mr. Trump said that once the United States resumed the intake of refugees, Christians would receive priority. Many Iraqis and Afghans who have worked for the United States since 2001, often as interpreters, say they were promised resettlement in the United States to save them from attack at home.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2017 02:07 UTC