Fewer Immigrants Mean More Jobs? Not So, Economists Say - The New York Times

When the federal government banned the use of farmworkers from Mexico in 1964, California’s tomato growers did not enlist Americans to harvest the fragile crop. They replaced the lost workers with tomato-picking machines. The Trump administration on Wednesday embraced a proposal to sharply reduce legal immigration, which it said would preserve jobs and lead to higher wages — the same argument advanced by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations half a century ago.

But economists say the tomato story and a host of related evidence show that there is no clear connection between less immigration and more jobs for Americans.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/legal-immigration-jobs-economy.html?emc=edit_nn_20170804&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=78638145&te=1&_r=1

The courts gave Trump great news about his Muslim ban, and almost no one noticed

“Reasonable” conservatives on the federal bench think Trump should win....
https://thinkprogress.org/the-courts-gave-trump-great-news-about-his-muslim-ban-and-almost-no-one-noticed-67defe37662e#.n82cnv5o4

Robert Reich: 4 Reasons the Trump Administration Is Unspeakably Cruel

There's one thing all of the president's initiatives have in common....
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-4-reasons-trump-administration-unspeakably-cruel

The Bureaucratic Revolt Against President Trump Is Underway (GQ)

Some career civil servants are ready and willing to call the White House on its bullshit....
http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-muslim-ban-dhs

The Washington Post: DHS report casts doubt on need for Trump travel ban

The three-page report says citizenship is an "unreliable" threat indicator, and people from the banned countries have rarely been implicated in U.S.-based terrorism. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dhs-report-casts-doubt-on-need-for-trump-travel-ban/2017/02/24/2a9992e4-fadc-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?utm_term=.6ca802fae28b

CNN: In college, Trump aide Stephen Miller led controversial 'Terrorism Awareness Project' warning of 'Islamofascism'

White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has garnered attention in recent weeks as one of the chief architects behind President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The 31-year-old aide's hardline views on Islam and terrorism took shape while he was still a student at Duke University. It was there, in the 2007 spring semester of his senior year, that Miller helped launch and run the "Terrorism Awareness Project," an initiative, Miller wrote at the time, that was aimed at educating students about the risk of "Islamofascism."...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/kfile-stephen-miller-terrorism-awareness/index.html

Slate: Trump’s Immigration Ban Explicitly Smears Muslims. Read It.

How Trump’s immigration ban explicitly smears Muslims as being potentially hostile to the Constitution....
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/02/trump_s_immigration_ban_explicitly_smears_muslims.html

‘The White House has got to stop embarrassing themselves by putting this guy on’: Scarborough roasts Trump adviser

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was not impressed by the television performance of one of President Donald Trump's top advisers on Sunday.

In a major appearance on four Sunday political talk shows this week, top adviser Stephen Miller struck an aggressive tone, standing by Trump's baseless claims about massive voter fraud, condemning a recent court ruling against Trump's immigration ban, and blasting media coverage of the new administration...
http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-scarborough-trump-stephen-miller-2017-2

US-born NASA scientist says he was told to unlock his phone at border (CNN)

A US citizen and a NASA engineer returning from a trip abroad says he was held at the border by US Customs officers who demanded that he unlock his phone. ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/us/citizen-nasa-engineer-detained-at-border-trnd/index.html

White House Says It Has New Ways To Revive Travel Ban (BuzzFeed News)

"The president's powers here are beyond question," said White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller....
https://www.buzzfeed.com/talalansari/white-house-says-it-has-new-ways-to-revive-travel-ban?utm_term=.qt4ymlQQm#.sp8R6Z556

8 Fact-Checks On President Donald Trump Administration's This Week : NPR

The Trump administration continued to play loose with facts in week three....
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/11/514612245/8-fact-checks-on-the-trump-administration-this-week

Trump's Immigration Order Has Made Him More Popular

A couple of weeks ago I said we'd need to wait a couple of weeks to see how President Trump's immigration order affected his favorability rating. Well, those couple of weeks are up. Here's how he's doing:...

Donald Trump wrong to say Kuwait followed his lead on visa ban

President Donald Trump's favorite social media tool is Twitter. But Trump turned to Facebook recently to defend his executive order on visas and travel from seven countries. ...

... He commented, "Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.’ " The post linked to an article published on the English-language version of the Arabic-language website Al Bawaba on Feb. 1 that featured the headline Trump quoted in his post:...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/07/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-say-kuwait-followed-his-lead-vi/

Evangelical leaders buy ad denouncing Trump refugee ban

A group of 100 evangelical leaders will call on President Trump in a full-page newspaper ad to support refugees in the wake of his order barring refugees and people from seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S. The ad, scheduled to run in The Washington Post, is signed by 100 evangelical pastors and authors, including at least one from all 50 states, CNN reported. It urges the president and Vice President Mike Pence to support refugees and expresses concern about the impacts of the president's executive order....
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318477-evangelical-leaders-buy-ad-denouncing-trump-refugee-ban

The Travesties Done in Your Name and Mine | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

These are not our values. Are they?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLnG5cYhc1Y&feature=youtu.be

President Trump says 109 people were affected by travel ban. It's at least 60,000 | PolitiFact

...Trump ... brushed off criticism of how his travel ban was implemented. The order has been temporarily halted by a federal judge, with a protracted legal battle on the horizon.

"I think it was very smooth," Trump said in part of the interview that aired Feb. 5.

"We had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers and all we did was vet those people very, very carefully."...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/06/donald-trump/president-trump-says-109-people-were-affected-trav/

The refugees from the 7 “banned” nations are more diverse than you think (Vox)

I don't think conservatives' fears are unfounded. But these facts may change some minds. ...
http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/2/6/14516520/refugee-asylum-demographics-muslim-christian

White House blasts out article about Muslim ban, but deletes all sections critical of Trump

That’s one way to generate positive coverage....
https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-press-release-muslim-ban-omits-critical-sections-1eceeab54886#.rauuv8no1

Risky business: Will President Trump’s ban cause foreign-born doctors to look elsewhere? (Salon)

Get sick in Toledo, Ohio, and chances are good you'll be treated by a doctor born in another country. If you have allergies, stomach issues or neurological problems, the chances are even better. At least half of those doctors are foreign-born, Ohio Medical Board data shows — some from the seven countries listed on President Trump's travel ban. ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/05/risky-business-will-president-trumps-ban-cause-foreign-born-doctors-to-look-elsewhere/

Former Obama and Bush CIA and State officials: Trump’s travel ban “undermines” national security (Vox)

A bipartisan group of national security officials argues in a legal brief that the ban is unnecessary and even dangerous. ...
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/6/14502694/trump-muslim-ban-legal-brief