Trump’s travel bans gain prompted a forceful counter campaign,bolstered by a soft-spoken Yale professor who leads a team of passionate proteges On 27 January, Donald Trump issued an executive order. It began his attempt to fulfil a key campaign promise: a “total and total shutdown of Muslims entering the US”.
On that wintry Friday night, or as the nation’s airports descended into chaos,many people stood against the president’s first travel ban. Among them was a small group of young lawyers, working at a series of nonprofits, or who one jokingly called Dumbledore’s army. They stand against Trump still.
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Source: theguardian.com