Hundreds of foreign service officers are planning to be party to dissent memo on Trump Refugee Order
BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order
Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees.
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Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats have drafted a dissent memo expressing opposition to President Donald Trumps executive order banning refugees and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States. ABC reported this morning on the draft, which is likely to be submitted today.
Heres a copy of the actual draft. We are hearing that literally hundreds of foreign service officers are planning to be party to the dissent memo; its still unclear exactly how many. We have redacted all names and personally identifiable information from this document:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3438487/Dissent-Memo.pdf
https://lawfareblog.com/breaking-news-full-text-draft-dissent-channel-memo-trump-refugee-and-visa-order