DENIZLI, Turkey — A group of 12 queer Iranians in hiding in Turkey had gathered for a small party on Tuesday night when someone spotted the report that President Donald Trump planned to stop resettling refugees in the United States.
Several of those there that night had been waiting for their US visas, their cases having been referred to the US by the United Nations. Some had already been turned away from other countries. Others were still waiting to find out if they would ever get a ticket out.
All felt their dreams crushed as they heard the news.

“I’m going to die here,” said Hamid, a 36-year-old gay man who fled his home in northern Iran in 2014 and was referred to the US for resettlement in August 2016. He is one of many queer Iranians who have camped out in Denizli, a small textile manufacturing city in southwestern Turkey, to endure the years-long wait for a ticket to the West where they hope to build a new life.
“We are all gonna end up in this fucking Turkey,” said Soheil, a teacher also from northern Iran whose case is under review with the US, in a text message after the news had sunk in the next day. “Trump is signing the law that literally prevents all Iranian asylum-seekers from entering states except religious minorities. It’s hell. It’s fucking hell.”

The details of what Trump will do are still far from clear. According to news reports, he’s expected to sign an executive order — not enact a law — that will freeze refugee resettlements for 120 days and then admit only people from countries where cabinet officials certify “sufficient safeguards are in place” to vet refugees. A reported draft of the executive order would suspend resettling Syrian refugees indefinitely, requiring Trump to personally sign off on resuming the program. It would also cut the number of refugees allowed to be admitted to the US in 2017 to 50,000, less than half of the 110,000 allowed under a cap set by President Obama.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/these-lgbt-refugees-may-be-trapped-by-donald-trumps-immigrat?utm_term=.hen2nBLyd#.isPmvJx2a

Source: Buzzfeed

DENIZLI, Turkey — A group of 12 queer Iranians in hiding in Turkey had gathered for a small party on Tuesday night when someone spotted the report that President Donald Trump planned to stop resettling refugees in the United States.
Several of those there that night had been waiting for their US visas, their cases having been referred to the US by the United Nations. Some had already been turned away from other countries. Others were still waiting to find out if they would ever get a ticket out.
All felt their dreams crushed as they heard the news.

“I’m going to die here,” said Hamid, a 36-year-old gay man who fled his home in northern Iran in 2014 and was referred to the US for resettlement in August 2016. He is one of many queer Iranians who have camped out in Denizli, a small textile manufacturing city in southwestern Turkey, to endure the years-long wait for a ticket to the West where they hope to build a new life.
“We are all gonna end up in this fucking Turkey,” said Soheil, a teacher also from northern Iran whose case is under review with the US, in a text message after the news had sunk in the next day. “Trump is signing the law that literally prevents all Iranian asylum-seekers from entering states except religious minorities. It’s hell. It’s fucking hell.”

The details of what Trump will do are still far from clear. According to news reports, he’s expected to sign an executive order — not enact a law — that will freeze refugee resettlements for 120 days and then admit only people from countries where cabinet officials certify “sufficient safeguards are in place” to vet refugees. A reported draft of the executive order would suspend resettling Syrian refugees indefinitely, requiring Trump to personally sign off on resuming the program. It would also cut the number of refugees allowed to be admitted to the US in 2017 to 50,000, less than half of the 110,000 allowed under a cap set by President Obama.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/these-lgbt-refugees-may-be-trapped-by-donald-trumps-immigrat?utm_term=.hen2nBLyd#.isPmvJx2a

Security official, 63, collapses and dies at Russian Consulate in New York City


BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 3:41 PM

A 63-year-old security officer collapsed and died early Tuesday at the Russian Consulate on the Upper East Side, police said.

The Russian native, who lived in Manhattan, suffered some kind of medical problem and dropped to the floor in the consular security office on E. 91st St. near Fifth Ave. just before 7 a.m. He died at the scene.

A police source said he had prior health issues.

“An American physician that was admitted to the Consulate’s building clearly ruled out signs of a violent death,” the consulate said in a statement posted to Facebook.


The victim was not immediately identified. The city medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine how he died.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/man-63-falls-death-russian-consulate-nyc-article-1.2864098

WTF! Just throwing this "coincidence" out there because it happened.

About that standing ovation, LOL!

https://twitter.com/PaulTOwen/status/824278436697034753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Steve Bannon registered to vote in two states despite Trump's cries of 'voter fraud'
President’s senior adviser is registered in both New York and Florida, as president falsely claims in tweet that such an arrangement amounts to fraud

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/steve-bannon-voter-registration-trump-election-voter-fraud?CMP=share_btn_tw

A senior White House adviser to Donald Trump is registered to vote in two different states, a practice that the US president wrongly claimed amounted to electoral fraud on Wednesday as he called for an inquiry.


Trump plans 'major investigation into voter fraud' amid groundless claims
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Stephen Bannon registered to vote in New York shortly before the presidential election last year, after the Guardian disclosed that he was registered to vote at a vacant house in Florida where his ex-wife had once lived.

Bannon, whose registration lists a rented apartment in Manhattan as his address, cast his ballot for Trump in New York, according to a source familiar with his arrangements, who was not authorized to speak to the media.

Bannon, however, also remains registered to vote in Florida, according to state records. His registration lists as his address the home of Andy Badolato, a friend of Bannon’s who has worked on some of his political documentary films and written for Breitbart News, the far-right website that Bannon controlled before entering the White House as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president.

His registration in Florida was moved to Badolato’s home shortly after the publication of the Guardian report in August. Bannon has not cast a ballot in Florida, according to state records. Badolato, who was also registered to vote at the home with his adult sons, declined at the time to answer questions on whether Bannon actually lived at the property, which is required under the registration rules of the Florida division of elections.

JANUARY 17, 2017 ~ PATRIBOTICS


SNIP:






https://patribotics.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/dear-mr-putin-lets-play-chess-louise-mensch-trump-russia/

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https://twitter.com/MeredithMcTrump/status/761647020889157632

Did she attend the inauguration? Any White House jobs for her as ghost-plagiarizer? Anything?







https://twitter.com/MeredithMcTrump

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/

1st Petition:




2nd Petition:



https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/