It was a lawsuit filed by the ACLU Friday night that prompted a New York federal judge 24 hours later to halt the deportations of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries who had been detained at U.S. airports following a Trump executive order that targeted them.
The first salvo was an executive order that targets current climate policies.
The idea was to send refugee students and their families some support after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that targets Muslims and refugees.
Hours earlier, a federal judge in Hawaii blocked her father's second attempt at an executive order that targets refugees and immigrants from six Muslim-majority nations.
For its part, the BC Civil Liberties Association plans to help flesh out the kinds of questions an authorizing judge must ask when dealing with a production order that targets the media.
But Singh wasn't surprised, given the nature of a recent Trump executive order that targets nearly all immigrants for deportation, not just those who have been charged with wrongdoing.
"Since the start of [the Trump] administration we've seen executive orders that target both communities," Kalpana Krishnamurthy, policy director at Forward Together, told HuffPost in an email.
Addressing an audience in San Francisco on World Environment Day, June 2, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an executive order that set targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions in the state.
Yesterday, Trump advanced his developing autocracy with the signing of an anti-immigration executive order that specifically targets Muslims; the UK's populist anti-immigration party continues to gain steam, and now, it's even happening in the Netherlands – the anti-immigrant nationalist Geert Wilders is gaining momentum for the March 15th election.
The search tool, called ICREACH, provides access to all communications records collected under a Reagan-era executive order, known as executive order 12333, that targets foreign communication networks.
