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On the evening of Jan. 27, the same day Trump signed an executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S., Ali Vayeghan, an Iranian national with an American green card, was scheduled to arrive at LAX on a 7 p.m. flight. It wasn’t until 2 a.m. that a customs official confirmed to his distraught family what they already suspected: that Ali was being held prisoner at the airport. After 20 hours in detention, with no provision of food or sleeping accommodations, during which time Customs and Border Protection tried to get him to sign away his residency (he refused), Ali was put on a plane to Dubai, where he was expected to connect to a flight back to Tehran, and to somehow get through customs in both countries with “REVOKED” written across his visa with a red sharpie. Visit theintercept.com to see the full-length video and read more about Ali's story. Video: The Intercept #MuslimBan #nobannowall
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It’s hard to imagine Donald Trump making the situation worse in Yemen, but he did. Trump's first concrete decision as Commander-in-Chief was a major fiasco that killed nine children, eight women, and a U.S. soldier in a botched raid on al Qaeda in Yemen. The operation – which Trump reportedly approved over dinner – also failed to catch its reported target and severely damaged a local clinic, mosque, and school. In this February 2016 photo, a Yemeni man walks the ruins of buildings destroyed in a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa. Photo: Mohammed Huwais/@afpphoto/@gettyimages #yemen
In order to address the massive strain Donald Trump's border security plan would place on the nation’s already overburdened immigration system, Trump has called for the construction of new immigrant detention facilities along the U.S. border with Mexico — including through private contracts — as quickly as possible. Trump has also directed DHS to “allocate all legally available resources to immediately assign asylum officers to immigration detention facilities” for the purpose of conducting so-called credible fear hearings for asylum seekers. In a 2013 photograph, immigrant detainees walk through the ICE detention facility in Florence, Ariz., one of the locations where USCIS was looking for volunteers to take up posts “for two-week minimum increments through mid-March.” Read more on theintercept.com. Photo: John Moore/@gettyimages #immigration #mexico #nobannowall
The leaked draft of a presidential memorandum Donald Trump is expected to sign within days suspends a 2010 rule that discouraged American companies from funding conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo through their purchase of “conflict minerals.” Human rights advocates — who had celebrated the conflicts rule as a major step forward — were appalled. In this photo from 2009, miners work at a gold mine in north eastern Congo. Photo: Lionel Healing/@afpphoto/@gettyimages #congo #photojournalism
Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and by refugees worldwide has been broadly rejected by the judiciary, with over a dozen federal court orders restricting or staying the travel ban. Now, more than 150 former federal prosecutors have expressed their disapproval of Trump’s overreach as well. On Monday, former Assistant United States Attorney Ellyn Marcus Lindsay provided The Intercept with a letter signed by herself and 53 other former AUSAs in California, which referred to the executive order as “a thinly veiled attempt to exclude Muslims from certain countries based on their religion.” @cchella protests the travel ban at LAX in this photo from Jan. 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. Photo: Genaro Molina/@latimes/gettyimages #nobannowall #protest
“From the start, it was unthinkable to leave one of the boys there. We decided we would find a way to make it work,” Alexandre Louzada told The Intercept, discussing the decision by he and his husband Francisco David to adopt not one, but three boys. The choice this couple unexpectedly faced — adopt one or two children as intended while leaving their brother, or adopt the three siblings together despite uncertainty about how it could work — is a common one in Brazil, where 77 percent of the children in shelters are with siblings, while 79 percent of adoptive parents want to adopt only one child. Read more about this family’s journey on theintercept.com. Photo: Thiago Dezan for The Intercept #Brazil #Adoption #familytime
In a recent tweet, Donald Trump yet again picked Chicago as the symbolic “inner city hell” he has railed against during his campaign, saying that if the city doesn’t fix its “horrible carnage” he will “send in the Feds!” But in an interview with The Intercept, investigative journalist Jamie Kalven noted “The irony about the tweet is — the Feds are here.” Over the 2016 Memorial Day weekend, Chicago saw more than 60 shootings, including a triple shooting investigated in this photo. Photo: Joshua Lott/@nytimes/Redux #chicago #police
President Donald Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. Our investigation, based on long-sought confidential FBI documents, offers a rare window into the the agency's quiet expansion since 9/11. It shines a bright light on the powers of this law enforcement agency, particularly when it comes to its ability to monitor dissent and carry out a domestic war on terror. To read the series on The FBI’s secret rules, visit the link in our bio. #privacy #surveillance #fbi
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“There are people literally crying in the office here,” said a senior U.S. immigration official. President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration has left families wondering when they will see their loved ones again, as career U.S. officials tasked with aiding the planet’s most vulnerable populations are learning bit by bit, through emails and confounding directives, how the jobs they signed up for are being steadily eroded. In a photo from Dec. 5, Iraqi refugees who fled Mosul look from behind a fence at a refugee camp in Syria's Hasakeh province. Photo: Delil Souleiman/@AFPphoto/@GettyImages #refugeecrisis #refugees #nobannowall
Internal FBI policy guidelines obtained by The Intercept show that the FBI has left its racial profiling practices virtually unchanged, and that the bureau still claims considerable latitude to use race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion in deciding which people and communities to investigate. The Somali community pictured here in St. Paul, Minn., for example, could be the type of community where agents might look for people who might have information about the Shabab militant group. To read the series on The FBI’s secret rules, visit the link in our bio. Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu/@washingtonpost /@GettyImages
Emma Sanchez Paulsen, a deported Mexican mother of three, poses for a portrait in her Tijuana bedroom in April. Sanchez Paulsen is one of scores of women who have been separated from their children both legally and physically after being deported from the United States. But she has bonded with others facing a similar plight through the activist organization Dreamers Moms of Tijuana. Though Sanchez Paulsen's children and husband, an American military veteran, are citizens, she is waiting out a 10-year-ban from the United States for entering the country illegally. Photo: @nataliekeyssar #nobannowall #tijuana
A woman has an emotional greeting with her mother after she arrived from Dubai at JFK airport in New York, on Saturday. Following an executive order signed Friday, President Donald Trump launched a sweeping attack on the travel rights of individuals from more than a half-dozen Muslim-majority countries. The administration’s assault on civil liberties explicitly targeted the world’s most vulnerable populations — refugees and asylum seekers fleeing devastating wars — as well as young people with student visas pursuing an education in the U.S., green card holders with deep roots in the country, and a number of citizens of countries not included in the ban. Photo: Andrew Kelly/@reuters #JFK #ForwardNotBack #MuslimBan
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