Trump's refugee plan divides religious leaders

(The Christian Science Monitor) For a week after President Trump’s executive orders suspending visas and immigration to the United States for nationals of seven predominantly Muslim countries and temporarily stopping refugee resettlement, protesters massed outside airports, attorneys filed lawsuits across the country, and thousands of immigrants to the United States were thrown into legal limbo.

Then, a federal judge in Washington State temporarily blocked the order from being enforced nationwide, with a federal appeals court panel upholding that decision in a ruling February 9, and for a time the Department of Homeland Security has stopped enforcing it. The State Department allowed those with valid visas to enter the country after saying it had revoked as many as 100,000. 

Previously, President Trump had said, “This is not about religion, this is about terror and keeping our country safe.”