The ban just enacted includes legal US residents

[Mr. Morden]

Trump has relented on green card holders:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/white-house-green-card-holders-no-longer-covered-by-trump-executive-order-234505

However, AFAIK, the ban still applies to temporary legal residents.  E.g., if you're a Somali student studying at an American university on a student visa, I guess you'd better not leave any time soon, or you can't get back in.

[Crumpets]

Trump has relented on green card holders:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/white-house-green-card-holders-no-longer-covered-by-trump-executive-order-234505

However, AFAIK, the ban still applies to temporary legal residents.  E.g., if you're a Somali student studying at an American university on a student visa, I guess you'd better not leave any time soon, or you can't get back in.

Don't you love the irony that many of the people who are supposedly being "kept out" through this ban are effectively being trapped in the United States?

[Middle-aged Europe]

After repeated criticism from Merkel, it also seems that the 137,000 Germans citizens who hold a dual citizenship with one of the seven effected Muslim countries are also exempted from the ban now.

I guess Germany is just a little more important to the U.S. than Somalia. Might makes right, huh...?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

After repeated criticism from Merkel, it also seems that the 137,000 Germans citizens who hold a dual citizenship with one of the seven effected Muslim countries are also exempted from the ban now.

I guess Germany is just a little more important to the U.S. than Somalia. Might makes right, huh...?

This whole ban is so damn retarded. They keep granting exemptions...so what's even the point of it anymore?

Politics.  Regardless of whether it actually accomplishes something, Trump has to look like he's doing something.

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-courts-idUSKBN15H0CW?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

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