Arabs and Iranians planning trips to the United States described new U.S. counter-terrorism travel curbs as insulting and discriminatory on Saturday. According to Reuters, five Iraqis and a Yemeni were stopped from boarding a New York-bound flight in Cairo. In the Muslim-majority countries affected by the restrictions, some would-be travelers planning family visits, work trips or seeking a new life away from war said they no longer wanted to go to the United States. Najeed Haidari is a Yemeni-American security manager for an oil company in Yemen. A day after U.S. President Donald Trump put a four-month hold on refugee arrivals and temporarily barred travelers from war-torn Syria and six other mainly Muslim nations, he told Reuters, "It's not fair and it's not right to portray huge groups of Arabs and Muslims as possible terrorists." In the most sweeping use of his presidential powers since taking office a week ago, Trump signed an executive order on Friday to pause the entry of travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for at least 90 days. Trump said separately that he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there. The travel curbs took effect immediately, causing havoc and confusion for would-be travelers with passports from the seven countries. In Baghdad, Bayan Adil, a doctor working in the Iraqi Health Ministry who applied for a U.S. visa to attend a medical seminar, said Iraqi academics should visit Europe instead of the United States, where they were no longer welcome. She said, "Trump's decision is unfortunately a humiliating insult not only for us as academics but for all Iraqis." http://bit.ly/2jBNnfq http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com
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1/28/17
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Arabs and Iranians planning trips to the United States described new U.S. counter-terrorism travel curbs as insulting and discriminatory on Saturday. According to Reuters, five Iraqis and a Yemeni were stopped from boarding a New York-bound flight in Cairo. In the Muslim-majority countries affected by the restrictions, some would-be travelers planning family visits, work trips or seeking a new life away from war said they no longer wanted to go to the United States. Najeed Haidari is a Yemeni-American security manager for an oil company in Yemen. A day after U.S. President Donald Trump put a four-month hold on refugee arrivals and temporarily barred travelers from war-torn Syria and six other mainly Muslim nations, he told Reuters, "It's not fair and it's not right to portray huge groups of Arabs and Muslims as possible terrorists." In the most sweeping use of his presidential powers since taking office a week ago, Trump signed an executive order on Friday to pause the entry of travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for at least 90 days. Trump said separately that he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there. The travel curbs took effect immediately, causing havoc and confusion for would-be travelers with passports from the seven countries. In Baghdad, Bayan Adil, a doctor working in the Iraqi Health Ministry who applied for a U.S. visa to attend a medical seminar, said Iraqi academics should visit Europe instead of the United States, where they were no longer welcome. She said, "Trump's decision is unfortunately a humiliating insult not only for us as academics but for all Iraqis." http://bit.ly/2jBNnfq http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com
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