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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 08:35 PM Jan 2017

Backlash grows

Mon Jan 30, 2017 | 7:26pm EST
By Dan Levine and Julia Edwards Ainsley

Backlash built on Monday against .. travel and immigration restrictions ...

The state of Washington announced it would sue, saying Republican Trump's executive order violated the U.S. Constitution, and Democrats in Congress pushed a vote to try to rescind the bill, but were blocked ...

Trump's order was developed hastily and was not extensively reviewed by the agencies which are now grappling with implementing it. Trump's administration is granting waivers from the refugee ban to allow 872 people into the country this week - refugees that had already been cleared for resettlement in the United States and were in transit when the order came out ...


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-idUSKBN15E1DE

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