President Trump attends the Friends of Ireland Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 16. (Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg)Advocacy groups fighting President Trump’s travel ban rallied outside the White House Thursday to celebrate a pair of court rulings that stopped it from being implemented but said their joy was tempered by the specifics of Trump’s newly released budget proposal. Earl Trent, chairman of the board of Church World Service, which resettles refugees in the United States. He asked Trump “to stand down from appealing” the ruling by federal judges to halt his travel ban, “to stand down from this cruel and mean hatred that he has displayed. The budget, the Muslim ban and Trump’s deportation force will hurt real people in real communities.”

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2017 19:49 UTC