Don’t Trust the Courts
The legal fight against Trump’s attack on Muslims will only succeed if it's backed up by mass politics.
Donald Trump has unleashed a crisis.
On Friday, Trump issued an executive order barring travelers from several war-ravaged states in the Middle East and North Africa — states that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) considers “countries of concern.”
Drafted by two of the White House’s leading racists, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, the order was an unambiguously xenophobic attempt to target Muslims on the basis of their religion. The following day, federal agents began stopping and detaining airline passengers covered under the order, including those with green cards.
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