Trump Bars Refugees, Citizens from Seven Muslim CountriesJanuary 27, 2017 - US President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries, according to NY Times. Declaring the measure part of an extreme vetting plan to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists,” Mr. Trump also established a religious test for refugees from Muslim nations: He ordered that Christians and others from minority religions be granted priority over Muslims. “We don’t want them here,” Mr. Trump said of Islamist terrorists during a signing ceremony at the Pentagon. In fact, the United States accepts tens of thousands of Christian refugees. According to the Pew Research Center, almost as many Christian refugees (37,521) were admitted as Muslim refugees (38,901) in the 2016 fiscal year.

Source: Ethiopian News January 28, 2017 04:33 UTC