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Over 100,000 visas revoked since Trump signed travel ban

  •   Sat, Feb 04 2017 07:45:21 AM

Washington, Feb 4 (PTI): Over 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Donald Trump's ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, an attorney for the government said today.

The number came out during a hearing in a lawsuit filed by attorneys for two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport on Saturday and were quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia in response to the president's executive order.

The government attorney could not say how many people with visas were sent back to their home countries from Dulles in response to the travel ban, Washington Post reported.

An executive order signed by Trump over the weekend had halted the US refugee programme for 120 days and indefinitely banned all Syrian refugees. A separate order also suspended all entry from Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Syria on national security grounds.
  

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Sat, Feb 04 2017

    New US President Donald Trump's 'Buy American-hire American' rallying cry has put the USD 150- billion Indian IT industry on edge. IT industry is already lost $4.4 billion lost in single day trading.

    The US has an estimated 283 million guns in civilian hands.Each year about 4.5 million firearms, including approximately 2 million handguns, are sold in the United States.An estimated 2 million second hand firearms are sold each year.

    More than 30,000 people are killed by firearms each year in this country.More than 30 people are shot and murdered each day.1/2 of them are between the ages of 18 and 35.1/3 of them are under the age of 20.Homicide is the second leading cause of death among 15-24 year-olds.And the primary cause of death among African Americans of that age group. But the selective mass media is not putting the right figures into public domain and always focus on terror related to particular community. .Media has created a situation where people belonging to majority, dominant culture, can't be shown as 'Terrorists' or 'Killers'.The 'majority' guy can never be terrorist. That 'tag' is reserved for the 'other'. It's exactly the same script which we have been watching, playing out on our TV screens and newspapers. So, how can things change?

    New President of US, whose grandfather deported from Germany and wife from Slovenia is now creating fear of immigrant.Will he correct the gun policy? Check the rape statistics which is highest in the world?

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  • Cynthia, Moodbidri

    Sat, Feb 04 2017

    Good move. Better to be safe than sorry . If anyone has big heart to help them, help them there in their own country instead of bringing into your country

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