Federal Judge Robart in Washington State halted Trump's EO nationwide. Robart was appointed by Dubya in 2004, confirmed by Senate 99-0.
Trump is going nuts on on Twitter about it.
No one from the 7 banned countries has committed an act of terror in this country.
Now, why isn't anyone talking about the destructive US Foreign Policy that created the conditions for these conflicts and refugees?
In Libya, we helped the French and British overthrow Gaddafi. The country is now divided and really has no central government. It's become the smuggling capital of Africa into Europe.
In Syria, since 2010, CIA was spending $1 billion per year to arm and train rebels to overthrow Assad. We thought it would be easy. But the Assad regime was backed diplomatically by China and Russia at the Security Council who both felt they got burned over not vetoing the Libya resolution. They didn't allow a no fly zone. Iran and Hezbollah provided more manpower. Russia stepped in 2015. Assad kept his head above water and the rebels have been splintered up and now there's a bunch of extremist groups because of the money coming in from Saudi/Qatar and Turkey's open border policy letting these groups plus ISIS have free movement has been a disaster. The Turks have perhaps finally realized that regime change was a disaster and now they have to deal with terrorism in their borders and can't just blame Kurds. Hopefully the talks in Kazakhstan and the ones in Geneva can finally end this terrible war.
In Somalia, there's been a civil war for a quarter century which has transformed to the current situation (clan fiefdoms and autonomous region) with Al-Shabaab weakened but still performing attacks but the central government is weak and corruption is rife and there's been no investment in a real Somali National Army... hundreds of millions annually is going to the African Union Mission which has been there since 2007.
In Yemen, we have a disaster there. The Saudis legit can not fight a war and their airstrikes have destroyed Yemen's infrastructure, its agriculture... and the naval blockade has starved the population. And they're using our weapons. The worst humanitarian crisis probably outside of Syria in the world.
Sudan had a two decades long civil war that ended in the last decade... the country was split and ironically the real problem right now is in South Sudan where there's been domestic conflict there. Northern Sudan is still under Bashir who is still wanted by the ICC and relations with the USA are still cold.
Iraq we know about.
Iran is the only country on that list which isn't a failed or semi failed state. And we have big Iranian populations in DC and LA and many dual nationals who are able to go back and forth.
Then the haters use that to retaliate and of we go... sigh.
