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Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
8. It gets worse: (UPDATED: EVEN WORSE!)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:04 PM
Jan 2017
Jamal Abdi, policy director for the National Iranian American Council, an advocacy group based in Washington, said the order had been generating insecurity and uncertainty.

“We’re already inundated with calls and emails from people about travel plans they’re putting on hold, spouses and family members who are currently traveling and not able to come back to the U.S., a large Iranian student population who are at international conferences and potentially stuck in limbo,” Abdi said.

The language in the executive order was so broad, Abdi said, that it was not immediately clear whether green-card holders — who have undergone strict vetting to become permanent U.S. residents — would be allowed to come back to the United States if they were currently overseas.


From the L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-refugees-order-reaction-20170127-story.html


I found it from this tweet:




Edit: It gets EVEN WORSE!








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