Huffington Post Shaker (L), Hajar (C) and Nabiha Darbi (R) are Syrian refugees living in Jersey City, NJ. / Reuters More than 1 million refugees traveled to Europe by sea in 2015. Trump’s refugee order isn’t entirely unprecedented. Courts blocked states’ efforts to ban Syrian refugees because the power to set that immigration policy goes to the federal government. Earlier in the day, Trump issued a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that spoke about “the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust” without once naming who most of them were: Jews persecuted and discriminated against based on their religion.

Source: Huffington Post January 28, 2017 00:41 UTC