Thousands of professors and other academics have put their names to an online petition that condemns President Donald Trump’s executive order severely limiting immigration and travel from several countries. The petition, which had more than 3,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon, denounces the order as discriminatory and likely to tear families apart. It also warns that the new policy could be disastrous for science and research in the United States. Trump’s order, signed Friday, halts the U.S. refugee resettlement program for four months and bars people from seven Muslim-majority countries for at least 90 days. For those reasons, the petition organizers call the executive order “detrimental to the national interests of the United States.”Signatories to the petition include 15 Nobel laureates in fields like physics, economics and medicine.

Source: Huffington Post January 28, 2017 21:20 UTC