In conservative media, Trump executive orders are a home run

January 29, 2017

President Trump’s response Sunday afternoon to criticism of his executive orders on refugees and immigration accused the news media of getting the story wrong. There was no “Muslim ban.” There was, instead, a policy that honest reporters ought to have recognized.
“My policy,” Trump wrote, “is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.”
The seemingly out-of-nowhere argument had come from a viral story on the Federalist, a conservative news and opinion site. Originally published in November 2015 , when Trump proposed “a complete and total shutdown of all Muslims” entering the country, it had been repopularized this weekend as the furor built. A viral story at Breitbart News, about the same program, had been shared more than 15,000 times on Facebook by the time the White House issued its statement. Gateway Pundit, a conservative blog that is now sending a reporter to White House briefings, scored a hit with a nearly identical story.
As The Washington Post’s Fact Checker has reported , the comparison was slightly inapt; the 2011 program was more narrowly tailored, affecting refugees only, after a specific security breach. But on Twitter, it had become a key plank of the conservative defense. Friday’s orders, the most controversial decisions of the Trump presidency so far, began a familiar response from an increasingly balkanized media. In the mainstream press, the story was the protests happening at international airports across the United States, the legal effort to free stranded travelers, and the criticism Trump was receiving from his own party.
But in the conservative media that has been most supportive of Trump — and where his chief political adviser Stephen K. Bannon hails from — the executive orders have been received as tough and necessary, and a source of irritation for all of the right people. At Breitbart News, which Bannon ran until joining Trump’s campaign, multiple stories pinned the negative response to the executive orders on the billionaire and liberal donor George Soros. Legal actions undertaken by immigrant rights groups were quickly tied to Soros’s money.
“The ACLU is massively funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundations, including with a $50 million grant in 2014,” wrote Breitbart News’s Aaron Klein. “The National Immigration Law Center has received numerous Open Society grants earmarked for general support. The Urban Justice Center is also the recipient of an Open Society grant. ”
A similar story , by Breitbart News’s Lee Stranahan, spotlighted the role of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in promoting the airport protests — doing so “as Trump protects [the] nation.”
“The Council on American-Islamic Relations is also increasingly a part of America’s institutional left infrastructure and was one of the partners behind the recent Women’s March in Washington that drew hundreds of thousands, along with feminist groups like Planned Parenthood,” Stranahan wrote.
At every turn in the story, Breitbart noticed a reason to be skeptical of the political backlash. Judge Ann Donnelly, who sided with the American Civil Liberties Union against the executive orders, was described as an “Obama-Appointed, Schumer-Allied Judge.” A story about the teary news conference at which Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (N. Y.) announced Democratic plans to oppose the orders was headlined “Trump Week One: Schumer Weeps.”
Gateway Pundit, whose star has risen since Trump secured the nomination, took a similarly jaundiced view at the opposition to the executive orders. One story argued that protesters were hypocrites: “FLASHBACK: DEMOCRAT President Franklin D. Roosevelt Put Japanese AMERICAN CITIZENS In Internment Camps After 1 Attack.” Another recapped the protests at JFK International Airport through a reporter who tweeted that he had been threatened. The ACLU’s stay on the executive orders was covered through the story of customs agents refusing to give lawyers access to detained travelers: “BIG LEAGUE: Customs Agents Ignore Liberal Judge, Enforce Trump’s Travel Ban!”
The coverage was just as positive on Fox News Channel, the network that the president said, in a midweek tweet, was covering him fairly. On Saturday, two of the network’s shows covered the new policy as a clear story of media overreach. On “Watters’ World,” Ed Henry, Fox News’s chief national correspondent and a former White House Correspondents Association president, described the policy as a political success.
“It hasn’t been a Muslim ban for months,” he said. “This may be part of the brilliant Trump negotiating style. Throw something that’s radical, that’s out there. Have all the critics focus on that. Then you start moving to the middle on something that’s really not that radical. Hey, let’s enforce our immigration laws. Let’s make sure there’s real vetting so that terrorists don’t come into the country. That’s not so crazy.”
On “Justice With Judge Jeanine Pirro,” the policy’s reasonableness was to take for granted that former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Trump supporter from the start of the 2016 campaign, concisely explained how the “Muslim ban” Trump had campaigned on became Friday’s executive orders.
“When he first announced it, he said Muslim ban,” Giuliani said. “He called me and asked me: Put a commission together, show me how to do it legally. … We focused, instead of on religion, danger.”
On Sunday’s episode “Media Buzz,” the press-watch show hosted by former Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz, the subject shifted entirely to whether the media were getting the story wrong. At one point, Kurtz looked dismissively at the studio’s window, saying that “out at the Capitol, behind our guests, about 200 protesters are gathering to protest this.” That was several hours before tens of thousands of protesters marched from the White House to Congress.
“Isn’t this almost exactly what he said he would do during the campaign?” Kurtz asked a panel of reporters. “The entire media establishment said, ‘This is suicidal.’… Maybe they are missing those in the country now who think this is a good idea?”
Conservative commentator Guy Benson, a sometime critic of Trump, agreed that the coverage had been skewed. “There are hundreds of millions of Muslims living worldwide not affected by this ban — for example, Muslims in Indonesia,” he said.
Later on Sunday, as other networks went long on protest coverage, Fox News republished and retweeted a poll conducted weeks before the actual executive orders.
Poll: Nearly Half of America Voters Support Trump’s Immigration Order https://t.co/ybonwad1Fg pic.twitter.com/4sZZ1JBVIY
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 29, 2017
The weekend that unfolded across conservative media looked almost nothing like the one unfolding across newspaper front pages or most of cable news. The president’s statement was not the only evidence of the impact. On Sunday night, after a number of Republicans had gotten attention for criticizing the executive orders, Rep. Thomas J. Rooney (R-Fla.) released a statement defending them and criticizing the media.
“It is important to note that in 2011, President Barack Obama issued a six month ban on Iraqi refugees entering the U. S.,” he said. “There was no outrage from the liberal media then.”

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Maine AG Janet Mills among 17 nationwide who condemn Trump’s ban on refugees

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January 29, 2017

Maine Attorney General Janet Mills was among a group of the nation’s leading Democratic legal officers who Sunday condemned President Trump’s executive order restricting refugees from entering this country for 120 days, calling it “unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful.”
The executive order also applies a 90-day ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – and an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria.
Mills signed the attorneys’ general joint statement, which was published Sunday on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s website.
“As the chief legal officers for over 130 million Americans and foreign residents of our states, we condemn President Trump’s unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful executive order and will work together to ensure the federal government obeys the Constitution, respects our history as a nation of immigrants, and does not unlawfully target anyone because of their national origin or faith,” the statement says.
“Religious liberty has been, and always will be, a bedrock principle of our country and no president can change that truth,” the statement says. “We are confident that the executive order will ultimately be struck down by the courts. In the meantime, we are committed to working to ensure that as few people as possible suffer from the chaotic situation that it has created.”
In a telephone interview Sunday night, Mills said the president’s executive order has already had an impact in Maine. She said there are people living overseas who are waiting to come to Maine and they can’t.
“We’re not talking about people who are our enemies,” Mills said. “These are people who have been friendly to the American government.”
She also called Trump’s decision to give preference to refugees who are Christian “disturbing.” Many refugees come to America because they face religious persecution in their native country.
“That’s just unheard of, putting one religious preference over another,” Mills said.
Mills said she is concerned because Trump’s order is the kind of action that can breed radical hostility toward Americans.
“When you paint an entire group of people with the same brush, you engender hostility, not compassion,” Mills said.
Seventeen attorneys general signed the statement. The others were the attorneys general of New York, California, Pennsylvania, Washington, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Virginia, Oregon, the District of Columbia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Illinois, New Mexico, Iowa and Maryland.
The Reuters news agency reported that the attorneys general are discussing whether to challenge the Trump administration in court. Mills said they will continue to monitor the lawsuits that other individuals and organizations have filed and may intercede if they feel they can help.
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Schulz macht die SPD siegesgewiss

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January 29, 2017

Martin Schulz will Kanzler werden. Aber wie? Vor jubelnden Anhängern hielt der neue SPD-Hoffnungsträger eine Mutmacher-Rede. Seine Themen sind ur-sozialdemokratisch: soziale Gerechtigkeit und klare Kante gegen Rechts.
Das Willy-Brandt-Haus voll wie lange nicht, jeden Tag mehr als hundert neue Mitglieder – die SPD erkennt sich selbst kaum wieder. Und sie berauscht sich an ihrem neuen Spitzenmann Martin Schulz. Der designierte Kanzlerkandidat und Parteichef hat bei einer kämpferischen Rede erste inhaltliche Schwerpunkte gesetzt. Steuergerechtigkeit und Steuerflucht würden ein zentrales Thema. Es sei nicht gerecht, dass ein Bäcker seine Steuern zahlen müsse, aber “ein globaler Kaffeekonzern sein Geld in Steueroasen parkt”. Eine Anspielung auf das US-Unternehmen Starbucks, das in Europa kaum Steuern zahlte.
Von den EU-Staaten forderte er mehr Solidarität bei der Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen. “Dass der ungarische Ministerpräsident Orban, der jegliche Solidarität mit Deutschland in der Flüchtlingspolitik ablehnt, von der CSU hofiert und beklatscht wird, ist ein offener Affront gegen die Interessen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland! ” Schulz versprach zudem, entschlossen gegen den Terrorismus vorzugehen. “Diese Mörder müssen wir mit harter Hand bekämpfen”, rief er unter dem Jubel der Zuschauer.
Immer wieder betonte Schulz, wie wichtig ihm der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt sei. Nur durch Zusammenhalt werde Deutschland stark bleiben. Immer wieder massierte Schulz die Seele seiner SPD. Den scheidenden Parteichef Sigmar Gabriel bezeichnete er als “tollen Typen”. Er sei froh, dass Gabriel sein Freund sei. Anschließend lobte Schulz jeden SPD-Bundesminister einzeln. Sie und die sozialdemokratischen Ministerpräsidenten regierten “besonnen und verlässlich”. Bei der Union gebe es dagegen ermüdende Streitereien, die CSU sei ein “Intrigantenstadl”.
Über die AfD sagte Schulz, sie sei “keine Alternative für Deutschland, sondern eine Schande für Deutschland”. Für den Wahlkampf verlangte Schulz ein Fairnessabkommen aller Parteien. Es müsse eine Absage an Social Bots enthalten, also Roboter-Meldungen in den sozialen Netzwerken. Sie erstellen Beiträge auf Twitter oder Facebook und können auch auf Beiträge antworten oder diese teilen. Dadurch werden Meinungsbilder vervielfacht und Trends verzerrt.
Über sich selbst sagte der Kanzlerkandidat, er sei “ein Sohn einfacher Leute”. Darauf legen auch seine Genossen Wert. Gabriel hatte gerufen, “sozialdemokratischer als deine Biografie geht es nicht”. Die Generalsekretärin der Bayern-SPD, Natascha Kohnen, sagte: “Er ist stinknormal, redet frei Schnauze! “
Enttäuscht zeigte sich Schulz über Zweifel an seiner Eignung als Kanzler. Kein Abitur, kein Studium, gebürtig in der Provinz – “all diese Dinge sehe ich nicht als Makel”, sagte Schulz und erntete Jubel und Beifall. Und was ist mit dem Mangel an Regierungserfahrung? Schulz war zwar lange Abgeordneter und Präsident des EU-Parlaments, aber nie Minister. Für Schulz kein Makel. Er erinnerte an seine Zeit als Bürgermeister in Würselen: “Jedes Problem landet am Ende in den Rathäusern und Gemeindevertretungen. “
Als Ziel des Wahlkampfs steht für den 61-Jährigen der Sieg. Die Sozialdemokratie trete an mit dem Anspruch, stärkste Kraft zu werden, er selbst wolle Kanzler werden. Auf dem Weg dahin hatte Schulz zuvor eine wichtige Hürde genommen: Der SPD-Vorstand nominierte ihn einstimmig für seine neuen Aufgaben. Ein Parteitag im März soll die Neuaufstellung absegnen.

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Syrian IT expert extends web lifeline to fellow migrants

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January 29, 2017

The website arabalmanya.com—which translates to “Arabs in Germany”—was founded a year ago by Syrian IT expert Talal Mando. The site contains a range of information, including news about Germany, feature stories explaining German culture and crucial job offers for newcomers.
“No one came to Germany to sit around,” Mando, who was part of the flood of 890,000 migrants who came to Germany in 2015, said of the site’s success. “The people want to work and learn new things. ”
The idea for the site came to Mando shortly after the soft-spoken 28-year-old arrived in Germany and started looking for guidance about how to apply for asylum, learn German, and find work.
He quickly realized that most written information was available only in German or English—not a problem for him as a fluent English speaker, but a major barrier for many fellow Syrians and other migrants who spoke only Arabic.
“That’s when I got this idea to make a website for Arab people that are in Germany,” Mando said in the living room of his Berlin apartment, which doubles as headquarters for the free website.
Since the website’s launch in December 2015, it has received more than 1.1 million visits and more than 4 million page clicks, nearly all from users inside Germany, according to Google analytics.
Many German organizations have reached out to help migrants get settled and some television networks offer Arabic language programming. Mando said he thinks arabalmanya.com has resonated particularly well with newly arrived Syrians because he and others working on the site have shared their experience.
He now has five people writing for the website, all Syrian migrants working for free after a small startup grant from a local organization ran out. Mando, who works as a freelance web designer, estimates he has put about 5,500 euros ($5,800) of his own money into the project.
The volunteer staff has written more than 1,400 posts, many of them job listings they’ve translated into Arabic. They also answer about 50 emails a day seeking advice on where to find a doctor, where to learn German, how to register for school, and what documents to bring and clothing to wear to job interviews.
“I do it because people need it. It’s that simple,” he said. “People need information and jobs here in Germany, and we provide it. ”
Explore further: Google’s Arabic-German translations surge amid migrant influx

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Intentionally or not, big brands help fund fake news

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January 29, 2017

Take, for instance, a story that falsely claimed former President Barack Obama had banned Christmas cards to overseas military personnel. Despite debunking by The Associated Press and other fact-checking outlets, that article lives on at “Fox News The FB Page,” which has no connection to the news channel although its bears a replica of its logo.
And until recently, the story was often flanked by ads from big brands such as the insurer Geico, the business-news outlet Financial Times, and the beauty-products maker Revlon.
This situation isn’t remotely an isolated case, although major companies generally say they have no intention of bankrolling purveyors of fake news with their ad dollars. Because many of their ads are placed on websites by computer algorithms, it’s not always easy for these companies to steer them away from sites they find objectionable.
Google, the biggest player in the digital ad market, places many of these ads. The company says it bars ads on its network from appearing against “misrepresentative content”—its term for fake news—yet Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville acknowledged that the company had sold ads on the site with the Christmas-card story. Those ads vanished after The Associated Press inquired about them. Faville declined to comment on their disappearance.
ADS THAT GO WHERE THEY WILL
Media advertising was much simpler when companies had only to buy ad space in newspapers or magazines to reach readers in a particular demographic category. Digital ads, by contrast, can wind up in unexpected places because they’re placed by automated systems, not sales teams, and targeted at individuals rather than entire demographics.
In effect, these ads follow potential customers around the web, where a tangle of networks and exchanges place them into ad slots at online publications. These middlemen have varying standards and levels of interest in helping advertisers ensure that their ads avoid controversy.
“A brand wouldn’t have a real foolproof way of not getting on sites that have issues like this,” said Joseph Galarneau, CEO of the New York City startup Mezzobit, which helps publishers and marketers manage advertising technology.
AUTOMATIC FAKE-NEWS FUNDING
Such automated ads are a major income source for fake news stories, which may have influenced voters in the U. S. presidential election. False stories can undermine trust in real news—and they can be dangerous. A widely shared but untrue story that pegged a Washington, D. C., pizzeria as part of a Hillary Clinton-run child sex trafficking ring led a man to fire a gun in the restaurant.
This largely invisible web of automated exchanges and ad networks funds millions of online sites, from niche, small-traffic blogs to professional news and entertainment sites with audiences in the tens of millions. By tracking web users to smaller sites, advertisers can reach them more cheaply than by limiting themselves to “premium” websites like the Washington Post, CBS or ESPN.
The megaphone of social media can give marginal sites a big lift. When a fake-news story spreads on Facebook, lots of people end up on the article’s original site—and ads follow. The result: Big companies help fund some low-rent websites trafficking in conspiracy theories and other unverified claims, at the measly rate of a fraction of a cent per person per ad.
WHERE “FAKE” FALLS THROUGH THE CRACKS
While advertising technology vendors have safeguards in place to help mainstream advertisers avoid porn or hate speech, those don’t always work for spoof news sites, said Marc Goldberg, CEO of Trust Metrics. Advertisers pay him to keep them off unwanted sites.
That’s partly because “fake news” can be hard to define. And while advertisers can come up with “blacklists” of sites to avoid, there’s no guarantee that ad-tech vendors farther down in the food chain will honor it, said Susan Bidel, an advertising analyst for research firm Forrester.
Many publishers and advertisers use Google’s ad technology without having Google sell their ads. In those cases, Google’s misrepresentative-content policy doesn’t apply.
BRANDS IN A BIND
When the AP pointed out that a Chrysler Ram truck ad popped up on a story saying that the United Nations was making the U. S. pay reparations to African-Americans—it’s not—Fiat Chrysler said it works with ad companies to scour individual sites and block them from loading its ads if it finds them “harmful. ”
An ad for would-be Amazon rival Jet.com, owned by Walmart, showed up on a misleading story claiming California had legalized child prostitution. The company said in an emailed statement that it has filters that stop its ads from loading “on these kinds of sites,” but wouldn’t provide more detail or explain its criteria.
Walgreens ads also popped up next to the child prostitution story on the site The Red Elephants, but the drugstore chain has since prevented its ads from appearing there, a company spokesman said.
A person who responded to an email sent to The Red Elephants declined to discuss the site’s advertising, but insisted that the child-prostitution story was true. The person declined to provide their name.
A Financial Times spokeswoman said in an emailed statement that the media company was “frustrated” to learn that its ads appeared next to fake news like the Christmas-card story, saying the situation underscored the “very real risk” of using automated ads. “We think the ad technology ecosystem could, and should, do more to improve brand safety,” she said.
Revlon declined to comment. A Geico spokeswoman said the company didn’t know about its ad that ran on the spoof Fox News site.
Explore further: Study: Ad-tech use shines light on fringe, fake news sites

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Wie das Silicon Valley auf Trumps Einreiseverbot reagiert

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January 29, 2017

Einige Unternehmer aus dem Silicon Valley kritisieren Donald Trump nicht nur, sondern wollen auch Betroffenen helfen. Trump schießt derweil auf Twitter zurück.
Nach Trumps Einreiseverbot für Bürger von sieben mehrheitlich muslimischen Staaten haben sich Vertreter der Tech-Konzerne aus dem Silicon Valley an die Spitze der Proteste gestellt. Netflix-CEO Reed Hastings bezeichnete Trumps Entscheidung als “so unamerikanisch, dass es uns alle schmerzt. ”
Manager von Slack, Box, Twitter und weiteren Firmen äußerten sich ähnlich deutlich – nachdem zuvor einige andere wie Mark Zuckerberg , Satya Nadella und Tim Cook den US-Präsidenten nur vorsichtig kritisiert hatten.
Einige wollen auch mehr tun als nur twittern: Airbnb-Chef Brian Chesky bot allen aufgrund des Trump-Dekrets gestrandeten Reisenden kostenlose Unterkünfte an. Betroffene sollen sich an ihn wenden. Logan Green und John Zimmer, die beiden Gründer des Uber-Konkurrenten Lyft, kündigten an, in den kommenden vier Jahren eine Million Dollar an die Bürgerrechtsorganisation ACLU zu spenden.
Trumps Entscheidung trifft die Silicon-Valley-Konzerne direkt: US-Medien zufolge sind zum Beispiel knapp 200 Angestellte von Google und rund 80 Angestellte von Microsoft von dem Einreisestopp betroffen. LinkedIn-Chef Jeff Weiner erinnerte auf Twitter daran, dass 40 Prozent der Fortune-500-Unternehmen von Immigranten oder deren Kindern gegründet wurden.
Trump schoss am Sonntag auf Twitter zurück: “Unser Land braucht starke Grenzen und extreme Kontrollen, JETZT. Schaut euch an, was in Europa und der Welt passiert – ein entsetzliches Chaos! ” Außerdem griff er erneut die New York Times an. ( cwo )

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The Latest: Iraq: We understand motives behind travel ban

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January 29, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on U. S. President Donald Trump and his ban on refugees from Muslim-majority countries (all times local):
5:55 a.m.
The Iraqi government says it understands the security motives behind President Donald Trump’s decision to ban seven predominantly Muslim nations, including Iraq, from entering the United States, but underlined that their “special relationship” should be taken into consideration.
Government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi says Iraqis are hoping that the new orders “will not affect the efforts of strengthening and developing the bilateral relations between Iraq and the United States.”
Al-Hadithi told The Associated Press on Sunday the government hopes the “measures will be temporary and for regulatory reasons and not permanent at least for Iraq.”
The order, signed Friday, included a 90-day ban on travel to the U. S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. It also suspended the U. S. refugee program for four months.
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5:45 a.m.
The impact of U. S. President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and citizens of seven mostly-Muslim countries from entering the United States was felt immediately in Britain.
A British lawmaker who was born in the Iraqi capital Baghdad said on Sunday he feels discriminated against “for the first time in my life.”
Nadhim Zahawi, a member of parliament since 2010, says lawyers advised him he will not be able to enter the U. S. under the ban introduced on Friday.
Zahawi describes the impact on him and his family as “demeaning.” He told local television his sons studying in the U. S. would not be able to visit Britain without facing a 90-day delay in returning to their studies.
An Iranian woman living in Scotland, Hamaseh Tayari, was stranded in Costa Rica in the wake of the ban, unable to board her scheduled flight home because it stopped in New York. She was seeking an alternative route with help from funds raised by a crowdfunding campaign.
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5:10 a.m.
A spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel says the German leader believes the Trump administration’s travel ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries is wrong.
Germany’s dpa news agency quoted Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert saying Sunday that “she is convinced that even the necessary, resolute fight against terrorism doesn’t justify putting people of a particular origin or particular faith under general suspicion.”
Merkel and U. S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone Saturday for the first time since his inauguration. A joint U. S.-German statement following the call made no mention of the topic of refugees or travel bans.
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4 a.m.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticized President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning refugees from entering the United States.
Her official spokesman said Sunday that May does “not agree” with Trump’s order and will challenge the US government if it has an adverse effect on British nationals.
The official comment came after May refused to condemn the ban during a visit to Turkey to meet with Turkish leaders. She said in Turkey the decision was a matter solely for the United States.
After she returned to Britain from a whirlwind visit to Washington, where she met Trump at the White House, and Turkey, her spokesman said Britain did not approve of Trump’s policy.
The British government is studying the order to gauge its impact on British nationals.
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3 a.m.
The Homeland Security Department says a New York court order temporarily barring the U. S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban will not affect the overall implementation of the White House executive action.
The agency said the court order affected a relatively small number of travelers who were inconvenienced by security procedures upon their return.
The department’s statement said: “President Trump’s Executive Orders remain in place- prohibited travel will remain prohibited, and the U. S. government retains its right to revoke visas at any time if required for national security or public safety,” according to the DHS statement.
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the White House, said that nothing in the judge’s order “in anyway impedes or prevents the implementation of the president’s executive order which remains in full, complete and total effect.”
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全豪テニス：けがからの復帰フェデラー素晴らしい夜に涙

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January 29, 2017

試合中はあまり感情を表に出さないフェデラーが両手を突き上げ、感極まって涙した。「５カ月前にはこの場所を想像すらできなかった。素晴らしいカムバックだった」。テニスの４大大会第１戦、全豪オープン最終日の２９日、男子シングルス決勝で第１７シードのロジャー・フェデラー（スイス）と第９シードのラファエル・ナダル（スペイン）が対戦。フェデラーには４大大会１８度目の優勝だが、昨年の左膝の故障を乗り越えてつかんだ歓喜の瞬間は、これまでとひと味もふた味も違い格別だった。
３５歳のフェデラーと３０歳のナダル。男子テニス界を長く引っ張った元世界ランキング１位同士の「レジェンド」対決は序盤からヒートアップした。フェデラーが第３セットをあっさり取り流れをつかんだかに見えたが、第４セットはナダルが執念で奪い返した。
フェデラーにとって、ナダルの倍以上を数えた７３本のウイナー（決定打）が支えだった。最終セット、４－３で迎えた第８ゲームは、２６回ものラリーからウイナーでポイントをもぎ取り、ブレークすると、第９ゲームも２度のジュースで粘られたが勝利は手放さなかった。
昨年の全豪後に左膝を痛めて手術し、シーズン後半を棒に振った。１４年間守った世界トップ１０の座も手放し、不安の日々の中で昨秋再会したのが、同じくけがに悩んでいた親友のナダル。２人は「１００％の力で戻って、またテニスを楽しもう」と誓い合った。
治療やトレーニングを繰り返し、ようやくたどり着いた全豪の舞台。「誰もが努力を重ねて頂点を目指す。引き分けがあるなら分かち合いたかった」。感慨深げにナダルをみつめる姿が再び感動を呼んだ。【浅妻博之】

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全豪テニス：あと一歩届かなかったナダル

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January 29, 2017

テニスの４大大会第１戦、全豪オープン最終日の２９日、男子シングルス決勝で第１７シードのロジャー・フェデラー（スイス）と第９シードのラファエル・ナダル（スペイン）が対戦。先にセットを奪われる展開の中、ナダルは執念の追い上げを見せた。第４セットはフェデラーに一つのブレークポイントも与えずに取ると、最終セットも第１ゲームを先にブレークしてリード。
だが、あと一歩届かなかった。昨年は利き手である左手首の故障に悩まされ、９度の優勝を誇る全仏も途中棄権。「帰りの車の中で涙を流した」と、その悔しさを糧とした。スピンの利いたショットは全盛期の切れが戻り、堅守のフェデラーを苦しめた。「決勝でプレーできたことがうれしい。トップに返り咲くために努力を続けるよ」。最後まで充実の笑顔を見せていた。

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米入国禁止、数百人に影響＝空港混乱、拘束者も－裁判所、大統領令を一部阻止

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January 29, 2017

【1月30日時事通信社】難民や移民の入国を停止・制限したトランプ米大統領による大統領令から一夜明けた２８日、米国や世界各地で混乱と不安が拡大した。ニューヨークのジョン・Ｆ・ケネディ空港をはじめ、各地の空港で当局がイラク人らを多数拘束。航空各社は送還の可能性のある旅客の米国便への搭乗を拒否し、影響を受けた人は数百人に上った。ニューヨークの連邦地裁は２８日夜、合法な滞在資格を持つ人々の送還停止を命じ、大統領令の執行を一部阻止した。大統領令はシリア難民の無期限受け入れ停止などが柱。米メディアによると、米入国を９０日間停止されるのはシリア、イラク、イラン、イエメン、リビア、ソマリア、スーダンの７カ国の出身者。イスラム教徒が多数派の国ばかりだ。ロイター通信によると、大統領令によって４００人近くに影響が及んだ。１００人以上が乗り継ぎで米国への入国を拒否され、航空会社が２００人近くの米国便搭乗を受け付けなかった。プリーバス大統領首席補佐官は２９日午前、ＮＢＣテレビの番組で「まだ二十数人が拘束されている」と述べた。ケネディ空港では大統領令署名後、一時少なくとも１２人が拘束された。その後、一部は解放され、米国に入国した。米軍の通訳などとして勤務したイラク人男性は解放後、空港で報道陣に「まるで自分が何か悪いことをしたかのようだった。驚いた」と振り返った。空港には地元選出の下院議員や２０００人以上のデモ隊が詰め掛け、残る拘束者の解放を要求した。デモ隊はシカゴやシアトル、ロサンゼルス、ダラスなど全米各地の空港に集結し、抗議した。２９日も９都市で大統領令への抗議デモが計画され、反発が強まっている。また、米国の大学で学ぶ多数の留学生が国外に足止めされていると報じられた。こうした中、トランプ大統領は２８日、「（入国制限は）非常に順調だ。空港やそこら中を見て分かる通りだ」と自らの措置を自賛した。一方、米政府高官は２８日、大統領令が永住権カード（グリーンカード）保有者も対象にしていると明らかにした。７カ国出身者は、米国に再入国可能か領事館などに個別に確認する必要があると警告している。永住権者には衝撃が走り、政治活動のためイランから米国へ逃れたモハマド・ホセイン・ザイヤさん（３３）はロイターに「米国でこんなことが起きるとは思わなかった」と話した。当局者はＣＮＮテレビに、制限対象になる恐れがある人は米国外に出ない方がいいと話している。ロイターなどによれば、ＩＴ大手のグーグルは、制限対象となる可能性のある社員の米国帰国を指示。米国での滞在許可を持つイラン人社員は、大統領の署名の数時間前に米国に戻ったという。制限対象国出身者の海外出張などを見合わせる企業が増えることも確実だ。(c)時事通信社