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AZANCOT DE MENEZES"},{"term":"ROGER RAFAEL SOARES"},{"term":"ANTÓNIO VERÍSSIMO"},{"term":"MÁRIO MOTTA"},{"term":"MOISÉS VICENTE"},{"term":"CELESTINO GUSMÃO"},{"term":"QUINTILIANO BELO"},{"term":"ABEL AMARAL"},{"term":"BEATRIZ GAMBOA"},{"term":"HERCUS PEREIRA DOS SANTOS"},{"term":"CARLOS LAUANO"},{"term":"SANCHO XAVIER"},{"term":"AFMEND SARMENTO"},{"term":"TEODORO MARCOS MOTA"},{"term":"BENIGNO GUTERRES"},{"term":"GREGORIO RANGEL"},{"term":"FILIPE R. 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It is the reality of more than ever Wall Street in the US presidency by election of the American people.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWall Street presides over the US supposedly from the White House if they want. Fact is that it will be Wall Street tracing the fate of the US and most of the world. What will happen is not known exactly but we know that Wall Street will always win and want to lose is us, the American people and other peoples of the world.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003ERead on The New Yorker John Cassidy, already following. He knows very well what he writes. Readers, be alert, the White House Monsters are in action.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.pt\/search\/label\/MARK%20LANE\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMark Lane\u003C\/a\u003E, in Washington DC for TA\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Sc-TCH7ldHU\/WJULEbVZNUI\/AAAAAAAAc5g\/_fGxSTn1iUY301ZVHQfruHtmtBGa5gG5ACLcB\/s1600\/Cassidy-Drain-The-Swamp-To-Government-Sachs-1-690.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Sc-TCH7ldHU\/WJULEbVZNUI\/AAAAAAAAc5g\/_fGxSTn1iUY301ZVHQfruHtmtBGa5gG5ACLcB\/s640\/Cassidy-Drain-The-Swamp-To-Government-Sachs-1-690.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EFROM “DRAIN THE SWAMP” TO GOVERNMENT SACHS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/john-cassidy\" title=\"John Cassidy\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJohn Cassidy\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E – The New Yorker\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EUntil now, Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, has been the invisible member of the Trump Administration. Now we know why: he has been busy preparing favors for his old pals on Wall Street.\u0026nbsp;In an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-moves-to-undo-dodd-frank-law-1486101602\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Einterview\u003C\/a\u003Ewith the\u0026nbsp;Wall Street Journal\u0026nbsp;on Thursday, Cohn said that Trump was preparing to sign an executive order designed to pave the way for a broad rollback of the regulatory regime that the Obama Administration and Congress introduced after the disastrous financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EAlthough Cohn gave few specifics, his comments suggested that the Trump Administration wants to hobble the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress created to protect the interests of ordinary Americans and investors;\u0026nbsp;reduce the amount of capital that big banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have to hold in reserve; spare some non-bank financial firms—such as major insurers—from the enhanced scrutiny they have been subjected to in recent years; and scythe away other key elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. “This is a table setter for a bunch of stuff that is coming,” Cohn said in reference to the executive order, which Trump signed on Friday.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EDuring last year’s campaign, Trump portrayed both Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton as\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/after-denouncing-goldman-sachs-on-campaign-trail-trump-considering-president-for-top-post\/\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epawns of Goldman Sachs.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;And after the self-described “Leninist” Steve Bannon took over as his campaign C.E.O., Trump broadened his critique, at one point\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/trump-rolls-out-anti-semitic-closing-ad\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edepicting\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman’s C.E.O. and Cohn’s old boss, as a member of a cabal of global financiers who had “robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the\u0026nbsp;pockets of a handful of large corporations\u0026nbsp;and political entities.” Even when it was happening, though, it was clear that all this rabble-rousing was mainly for show.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EAlthough Trump campaigned as an economic populist, his brand of populism was simply old-school Reaganomics—giveaways to the rich and pro-corporate deregulation—rebranded with a nationalist and protectionist twist. After the election, Trump stocked his Cabinet with Wall Street billionaires and mega-millionaires—Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin, Cohn—who had benefitted personally from the lax regulatory regime that was in place before 2010. A week after the election, I\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/john-cassidy\/donald-trumps-great-bait-and-switch\"\u003Ecommented\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that the Trump transition was “one of the biggest bait-and-switch operations in recent history.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EInvestors took notice. For big trading houses like Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan, the regulatory regime is a key driver of profitability. In the past six years, higher capital requirements and other restrictions introduced as part of Dodd-Frank helped drive down some banks’ return on equity—a measure of their profitability—by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/GS\/return_on_equity\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Emore than half.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Partly in anticipation of upcoming regulatory relief, bank stocks have been rising sharply since the election.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIndeed, Michael Madowitz, an economist at the Center for American Progress, has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikemadowitz\/status\/827527646112276480\"\u003Ecalculated\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that five financial stocks account for more than forty per cent of the rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since November 8th. The jump in Goldman’s stock alone accounts for a quarter of the over-all rise. On Friday morning, bank stocks rose again. At noon, Goldman was\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/GS?ltr=1\"\u003Eup four per cent.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EOne wonders what Trump voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and western Pennsylvania think of all this. Perhaps they have been distracted by his tough talk on trade, his anti-Muslim travel ban, and his Twitter wars. Perhaps some even believe that what is good for Wall Street is good for them, although that wasn’t what Trump said during the campaign.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIn any case, Trump voters and everybody else will now get to watch as the Administration guts a regulatory regime that was designed to prevent another taxpayer bailout of Wall Street. Of course, the Trump Administration won’t present things this way. As Cohn did in his interview with the\u0026nbsp;Journal, they will argue that they are simply removing some bits of the reform package that were overdone and have proved counterproductive.\u0026nbsp;“I’m not sitting here saying we want to go back to the good old days,” Cohn said to the\u0026nbsp;Journal. “We don’t want to do it in an unregulated way. We want to do it in a smart, regulated way.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIf you are convinced by this, I’ve got a fabulous new synthetic subprime-mortgage C.D.O. that you might be interested in investing in. The\u0026nbsp;Dodd-Frank reforms and the other rules that the Federal Reserve and its fellow-regulators introduced after 2008 can’t be considered individually. They were designed to work together as part of a new regulatory regime that reduced the level of risk in the system. They did this by reducing leverage levels—i.e., how much banks can borrow from other financial institutions—and by proscribing certain trading activities, as well as by forcing big banks to draw up “living wills” that would enable the government to wind them down, rather than bail them out, if they got into trouble.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/null\" name=\"\/2\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe new system isn’t perfect, but so far it has been working. Big banks have a lot more capital and liquidity than they used to have, and they are less liable to blow up at a moment’s notice. As Ben Bernanke, the former head of the Federal Reserve, pointed out last year, the reform process is an ongoing one. “A key element of the strategy is that it gives banks strong incentives to shrink or otherwise restructure themselves to reduce the risk they pose to the financial system,” Bernanke, who is now at the Brookings Institution, wrote in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/ben-bernanke\/2016\/05\/13\/ending-too-big-to-fail-whats-the-right-approach\/\"\u003Ea blog post.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe big banks, of course, don’t want to restructure or shrink further. They want more freedom to increase the size of their balance sheets by borrowing more money, to make risky trades, and to issue risky loans without busybodies from the Fed and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sticking their noses in. And now, it appears, the banks will get what they want.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EAs part of that process, it seems inevitable that Trump will have to get rid of Bernanke’s successor, Janet Yellen, who is also a strong supporter of the post-2008 regulatory regime. Unless the Fed reverses much of what it has done since 2008, particularly its edicts forcing big banks to hold more capital, there is only so much that the Trump Administration can do to free things up. But Yellen’s presence is only a temporary roadblock. Her term is up next January, and there are plenty of people on Wall Street who would be more than happy to replace her.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E*John Cassidy has been a staff writer at\u0026nbsp;The New Yorker\u0026nbsp;since 1995. He also writes a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/john-cassidy\"\u003Ecolumn about politics, economics, and more\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for newyorker.com. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/john-cassidy\" title=\"John Cassidy\"\u003EMore\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EPhoto: Gary Cohn (far right) has suggested that the Trump Administration will attempt to significantly roll back post-2008 regulatory reform on Wall Street.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHIP SOMODEVILLA \/ GETTY\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1395527259678708268\/comments\/default","title":"Enviar comentários"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=4255476021655725856\u0026postID=1395527259678708268\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comentários"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/1395527259678708268"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/1395527259678708268"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/the-monster-of-white-house-iv.html","title":"THE MONSTER OF THE WHITE HOUSE - IV"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"TIMOR AGORA"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00381269767851826234"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJ7Wm1Llp0w\/WSLKVSFzi3I\/AAAAAAAAhI0\/VMUvcyPT6NUdQzCU0zCXe1yIfoQzcBi7ACK4B\/s113\/timoragora%2Bpequeno%2B-%2BFIM.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-bPbb0wiOL9k\/WJUKtq9mYLI\/AAAAAAAAc5c\/4B1XJmjsTJ0lAqR8g98ZF5beVybvXRjhwCLcB\/s72-c\/whitw%2Bhouse%2Bml.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4255476021655725856.post-356998612032764944"},"published":{"$t":"2017-02-04T03:38:00.001+09:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-02-04T03:42:09.067+09:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"INGLÊS"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"MARK LANE"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"MUNDO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"OPINIÃO"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"THE MONSTER OF THE WHITE HOUSE - III"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--UC7qyCXi4w\/WJTM9bphSxI\/AAAAAAAAc4o\/5ZBJnpK6fFgGb_E9tZWYEr_5AjoynsufwCLcB\/s1600\/whitw%2Bhouse%2Bml.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--UC7qyCXi4w\/WJTM9bphSxI\/AAAAAAAAc4o\/5ZBJnpK6fFgGb_E9tZWYEr_5AjoynsufwCLcB\/s640\/whitw%2Bhouse%2Bml.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EWHO WILL PRESENT THE TRUMP INVOICE?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EVisas affected by Donald Trump now number 100,000. That's the number of people who can not travel to the US in about a week. Inconceivable.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EFor these and many other reasons Trump is facing resistance from sovereign bodies and heads of government in Europe and other parts of the world.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EToday the European Parliament has rejected the ambassador Trump has appointed to that European highest body. Yesterday the Australian prime minister showed his displeasure at Trump's policies on refugees and breaking the agreement between Australia and the US on this issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EOther heads of government, all over the world, are criticizing Trump on the issue of refugees and visas he is refusing and withdrawing after they have been granted. To the world Trump represents a man without honorable hair that drags in his policies of closing the prestige of the USA.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe Secretary-General of the United Nations has also spoken unfavorably against the measures enacted by the Trump administration, even stating that this is not how Trump manages to control terrorism.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EFor various reasons Trump is cornering himself as if in a roundabout with his isolationist policies and revelations of the wills of a selfish, narcissistic individual, which has nothing like what the US has meant to the world for centuries. Resistance to Trump seems to come in strength from many countries in the world that were once unconditional US allies. The losses will pile up. It is then up to the Americans to present the invoice to Trump. The time you spend with these ongoing policies will make this proof. Who will present the invoice to Trump?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThen read The Washington Post article on the 100,000 lives that were affected to a lesser or greater extent by Donald Trump, the White House monster.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.pt\/search\/label\/MARK%20LANE\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMark Lane\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, in Washington DC for TA\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-KprysP0sBNI\/WJTOwr0zazI\/AAAAAAAAc40\/-uq4zmi37akhQKUrg6MC678DzENIAoVWwCLcB\/s1600\/632914834-5057.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-KprysP0sBNI\/WJTOwr0zazI\/AAAAAAAAc40\/-uq4zmi37akhQKUrg6MC678DzENIAoVWwCLcB\/s640\/632914834-5057.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EGovernment reveals over 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/rachel-weiner\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERachel Weiner\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E – The Washington Post\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EOver 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Trump’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, an attorney for the government revealed in Alexandria federal court Friday.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe number came out during a hearing in a lawsuit filed by attorneys for two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport on Saturday and were quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia in response to the president’s executive order.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe government attorney could not say how many people with visas were sent back to their home countries from Dulles in response to the travel ban.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EPhoto: President Trump signs an executive order last month. (Pool\/Bloomberg)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERead more:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sub.washingtonpost.com\/hosted\/washpost\/588d561dd52b5f1a748f140c\" title=\"sub.washingtonpost.com\"\u003EHas your visa been affected by Trump’s travel ban? Tell us about it.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/national\/immigration-order-explainer\/\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\"\u003EWho is affected by Trump’s travel ban\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/iran-bars-us-wrestlers-from-tournament-in-response-to-trumps-travel-ban\/2017\/02\/03\/234c4e88-ea28-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.138ea090237b\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\"\u003EIran bars U.S. wrestlers in response to Trump’s travel ban\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/tech-industry-opposition-to-trump-travel-ban-escalates\/2017\/02\/02\/4b719dac-e986-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.f4495993cc0c\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;;\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\"\u003ETech industry opposition to Trump travel ban escalates\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/356998612032764944\/comments\/default","title":"Enviar comentários"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=4255476021655725856\u0026postID=356998612032764944\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comentários"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/356998612032764944"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/356998612032764944"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/the-monster-of-white-house-iii_4.html","title":"THE MONSTER OF THE WHITE HOUSE - III"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"TIMOR AGORA"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00381269767851826234"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJ7Wm1Llp0w\/WSLKVSFzi3I\/AAAAAAAAhI0\/VMUvcyPT6NUdQzCU0zCXe1yIfoQzcBi7ACK4B\/s113\/timoragora%2Bpequeno%2B-%2BFIM.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--UC7qyCXi4w\/WJTM9bphSxI\/AAAAAAAAc4o\/5ZBJnpK6fFgGb_E9tZWYEr_5AjoynsufwCLcB\/s72-c\/whitw%2Bhouse%2Bml.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4255476021655725856.post-3305667700469312011"},"published":{"$t":"2017-02-01T19:48:00.000+09:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-02-01T21:04:34.579+09:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"INGLÊS"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"MARK LANE"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"MUNDO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"OPINIÃO"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"THE MONSTER OF THE WHITE HOUSE - II"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UMQb4a5_jL4\/WJG5bV61JoI\/AAAAAAAActQ\/2mg6lKOtWaMazedZ8zbsjn8kc2N19r_JwCLcB\/s1600\/whitw%2Bhouse%2Bml.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UMQb4a5_jL4\/WJG5bV61JoI\/AAAAAAAActQ\/2mg6lKOtWaMazedZ8zbsjn8kc2N19r_JwCLcB\/s640\/whitw%2Bhouse%2Bml.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe xenophobic and racist combat of Donald Trump and his staff happens for the simple reason that they are nevertheless: xenophobic and racist. Do not forget your connections to the Ku Klux Klan. Trump and his closest followers perfectly embody what is popularly said throughout the country: \"Monsters have occupied the White House.\"\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIn this huge wave of racism and xenophobia, the Trump clan forget the success stories of those who imigrated to the United States. And there are quite a few. Donald Trump is the example that had in the family the success story of his imigrant ancestors in the USA, including his mother. Americans of origin, pure Indians only exist, the rest of the citizens have their roots far from the territory that is the US, they have in the DNA the complement of the immigration. Statute now the president wants to deny the next.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EFollow then a simple but successful story from The New York Times, which we dedicated to Donald Trump and other monsters of his staff.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.pt\/search\/label\/MARK%20LANE\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMark Lane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E, in Washington DC for TA\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E--------------------------------------------------\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EA Washington Correspondent’s Own Refugee Experience\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/helene-cooper\" title=\"More Articles by HELENE COOPER\"\u003EHELENE COOPER\u003C\/a\u003E – THE NEW YORK TIMES\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWASHINGTON — When I was 13 years old, my family fled our home for the United States.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWe were refugees, even though we came here on visitor visas that we simply outstayed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe country of my birth,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/liberia\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;;\" title=\"More news and information about Liberia.\"\u003ELiberia\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E, had just seen a military coup, where enlisted soldiers took over the government, disemboweled the president and launched an orgy of retribution against the old guard. My father was shot. My cousin was executed on the beach by firing squad. My mom was gang-raped by soldiers in the basement of our house after she volunteered to submit to them on the condition that they leave my sisters and me, ages 8 to 16, alone.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIn the hours after it happened, my sisters and I huddled on the floor in my mom’s bedroom while she sat, silently, on the love seat, like a sentry keeping watch over us. In her lap she held a pistol. Twice that night, the soldiers came back, but each time they left again without entering the house.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kGx4hPViAMA\/WJG6Vw7VslI\/AAAAAAAActY\/w6cZp2hrEgIVTpHKH1Q3wcaWr3N3RuIiwCLcB\/s1600\/01-Insider-CooperRefugee-Image3-master675-v4.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kGx4hPViAMA\/WJG6Vw7VslI\/AAAAAAAActY\/w6cZp2hrEgIVTpHKH1Q3wcaWr3N3RuIiwCLcB\/s320\/01-Insider-CooperRefugee-Image3-master675-v4.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIn the ensuing weeks, my mom worked steadily to get us out of Liberia. First, she went to the American Embassy, to begin the painstaking process of trying to get us a visa to the United States. She knew refugee status or an immigrant visa would take months or years, so she went straight for the easiest one, the tourist visa, thinking that was the quickest way out of the country for us. It still took almost a month to get.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EAfter the rape, my mom had moved us to our cousins’ house, where she thought we would be safer than in our isolated home way out in the bush. My dad was still in the hospital recovering from gunshot wounds, but at my cousins’ house there seemed to be safety in numbers. Still, every night, my mom would come into the bedroom where we were all sleeping to check on us — three, four, sometimes five times a night.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EFinally, we got the visas. But we still had to get exit permits from the new Liberian military government allowing us to leave the country. My mom drained her bank account and bribed everyone she could find. She had a singular mission, it seemed: She was going to get her daughters to safety any way she could. (My father would join us once he was released from the hospital.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIt was around midnight on May 16, 1980, when we boarded Pan Am Flight 100 at Robertsfield Airport outside Monrovia. The destination was New York. The plane was a DC-10. The cabin engulfed us in its foreignness; it was like we were already in America, with carpets and air-conditioning and air fresheners.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EI remember being terrified. I sat across the aisle from my mom, who sat next to my sister. We all kept looking at the open door of the plane, for someone to come and pull us off.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EOver 30 years later, on Friday, I was at the Pentagon, which I cover for The New York Times, when President Trump came to sign his executive order closing the door on refugees coming into this country. I was on deadline and hurriedly typed out my “feed” for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-syrian-refugees.html\"\u003Ethe story\u003C\/a\u003E, which I was working on with my colleague, The Times’s White House correspondent Michael Shear.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EI am no longer a refugee, so theoretically I am not affected by the ban. After eight years of living illegally in the United States, I received a green card as part of Ronald Reagan’s amnesty program. Ten years after that, I became an American citizen.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThis country took me and my family in when we were at one of the lowest points of our lives and returned to me a feeling I had lost: that of being safe. I was so proud when I eventually took the oath of citizenship and posed for photos, waving an American flag, in front of the courthouse where I was sworn in.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4KwVP3-X8tw\/WJG6wKli3rI\/AAAAAAAActc\/vO9BuXZlefgg7EspmMaBMIX4ny0P5imhACLcB\/s1600\/01-Insider-CooperRefugee-Image4-master675.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4KwVP3-X8tw\/WJG6wKli3rI\/AAAAAAAActc\/vO9BuXZlefgg7EspmMaBMIX4ny0P5imhACLcB\/s320\/01-Insider-CooperRefugee-Image4-master675.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003ELiberia, which went through a 15-year civil war after we left, has been slowly picking itself up. It elected a female president — the first African country to do so. The absence of war in the past 14 years has allowed businesses to reopen, roads to be fixed and children to go to school. The country is about to hold another election — a hoped-for peaceful transfer of power. These days, when I go to Liberia, I’m not afraid anymore.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EOn Saturday, when I read reports of the refugees and Muslims from seven countries who were being denied entry into the United States, one passage in particular jumped out at me, in our lead story about the executive order: “In Istanbul, during a stopover on Saturday, passengers reported that security officers had entered a plane after everyone had boarded and ordered a young Iranian woman and her family to leave the aircraft.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThat single sentence took me back — to another plane on another tarmac, and another family, more than 37 years ago. To my mom and my sister and myself, as we sat fearfully looking at the door of the plane, praying that no one would come on and take us off.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EI hadn’t seen my mom cry in the whole month after the coup. Not even the night she was raped. But when the plane’s engines revved and it accelerated down the runway the night we left for the United States, her chest heaved with big racking sobs.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EHelene Cooper is The Times’s Pentagon correspondent. Her new book, “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,” will be published by Simon and Schuster on March 7.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EPhoto 1 - The writer, Helene Cooper, left, with her mother and her sister in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1972.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EPhoto 2 - Ms. Cooper, right, with her sister and her mother in Washington, D.C., in 2009.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3305667700469312011\/comments\/default","title":"Enviar comentários"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=4255476021655725856\u0026postID=3305667700469312011\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comentários"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/3305667700469312011"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/3305667700469312011"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/the-monster-of-white-house-ii.html","title":"THE MONSTER OF THE WHITE HOUSE - II"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"TIMOR AGORA"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00381269767851826234"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJ7Wm1Llp0w\/WSLKVSFzi3I\/AAAAAAAAhI0\/VMUvcyPT6NUdQzCU0zCXe1yIfoQzcBi7ACK4B\/s113\/timoragora%2Bpequeno%2B-%2BFIM.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UMQb4a5_jL4\/WJG5bV61JoI\/AAAAAAAActQ\/2mg6lKOtWaMazedZ8zbsjn8kc2N19r_JwCLcB\/s72-c\/whitw%2Bhouse%2Bml.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4255476021655725856.post-587698618865442850"},"published":{"$t":"2017-01-31T17:42:00.000+09:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-02-01T20:13:17.760+09:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"INGLÊS"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"MARK LANE"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"MUNDO"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"THE MONSTER OF THE WHITE HOUSE - I"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ppu4KJGZwDY\/WJBLkYme96I\/AAAAAAAAcnw\/qc62MFobdAg6UvWGJ4k2nkXSD9ctuiuQwCLcB\/s1600\/Sem%2BT%25C3%25ADtulo.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ppu4KJGZwDY\/WJBLkYme96I\/AAAAAAAAcnw\/qc62MFobdAg6UvWGJ4k2nkXSD9ctuiuQwCLcB\/s640\/Sem%2BT%25C3%25ADtulo.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETaking into account the daily decisions of the new president of the United States of America and the instability provoked internally and externally, the TA begins to consult the American press directly and to include one or more relevant news from the most relevant US press.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe decisions announced by Donald Trump in the White House have already garnered him several nicknames. One of them is \"The White House Monster,\" which the Timor Agora adopts.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFrom the Washington Post we transcribe the entire article that mentions the \"monstrous\" activities and decisions of this new president that US voters have chosen to head US destinations.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.pt\/search\/label\/MARK%20LANE\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMark Lane\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, in Washington DC for TA\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E----------------\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump has fired the acting attorney general who ordered Justice Dept. not to defend president’s travel ban\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/matt-zapotosky\/\"\u003EMatt Zapotosky\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/sari-horwitz\/\"\u003ESari Horwitz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/mark-berman\/\"\u003EMark Berman\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;- \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:matt.zapotosky@washpost.com;horwitzs@washpost.com;mark.berman@washpost.com?subject=Reader%20feedback%20for%20%27Trump%20has%20fired%20the%20acting%20attorney%20general%20who%20ordered%20Justice%20Dept.%20not%20to%20defend%20president%E2%80%99s%20travel%20ban%27\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EPresident Trump fired acting attorney general Sally Yates on Monday night after she ordered Justice Department lawyers not to defend his immigration order temporarily banning entry into the United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIn a news release, the White House said Yates had “betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.” Trump named in her place Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Boente said he would enforce the president’s directive until he was replaced by Trump’s attorney general nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E“Yes, I will,” he said in a brief phone interview with The Washington Post. “I was enforcing it this afternoon. Our career department employees were defending the action in court, and I expect that’s what they’ll do tomorrow, appropriately and properly.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003ELater Monday, he formally rescinded Yates’s order and ordered Justice Department employees “to do our sworn duty and to defend the lawful orders of our President.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe move came just hours after Yates ordered the Justice Department not to defend Trump’s immigration order, declaring in a memo that she was not convinced the order is lawful. Yates wrote that, as the leader of the Justice Department, she must ensure that the department’s position is “legally defensible” and “consistent with this institution’s solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E“At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the Executive Order is consistent with these responsibilities nor am I convinced that the Executive Order is lawful,” Yates wrote. She wrote that “for as long as I am the Acting Attorney General, the Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the Executive Order, unless and until I become convinced that it is appropriate to do so.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe stunning events marked the latest sign of turmoil over Trump’s announcement Friday that he would shut the U.S. borders to refugees and those entering the country from seven Muslim-majority countries.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aSmAi9cWMkQ\/WJBNd5-SD9I\/AAAAAAAAcoA\/sUoD4Vmnfdc3TK4H7_EQq_UjbFRbTZTtQCLcB\/s1600\/Sem%2BT%25C3%25ADtulo.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aSmAi9cWMkQ\/WJBNd5-SD9I\/AAAAAAAAcoA\/sUoD4Vmnfdc3TK4H7_EQq_UjbFRbTZTtQCLcB\/s320\/Sem%2BT%25C3%25ADtulo.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EMore than 100 State Department diplomats have signed\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/dissent-memo-circulating-in-the-state-department-over-trumps-policy-on-refugees-and-immigrants\/2017\/01\/30\/c1457689-5108-4ef7-bcea-1a5dee431ef8_story.html?utm_term=.f33adfa09b9c\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\"\u003Ea memo\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;objecting to Trump’s order, arguing that it will not deter attacks on American soil. The document, which says Trump’s ban will generate ill will toward U.S. citizens, is destined for what’s known as the department’s Dissent Channel, which was set up during the Vietnam War as a way for diplomats to signal to senior leadership their disagreement on foreign policy decisions.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EYates was a holdover from the Obama administration, but her move still represented notable disagreement from someone who would be on the front lines of implementing it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EA Justice Department official said that hours after Yates released her memo refusing to defend the president’s executive order, she was delivered a one-line letter from the head of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel saying that she had been removed. The White House then announced her firing with a statement criticizing her as “an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E“It is time to get serious about protecting our country,” the statement said. “Calling for tougher vetting for individuals travelling from seven dangerous places is not extreme. It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003ESessions, Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department permanently, is awaiting Senate confirmation, although it could come as early as this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider his nomination Tuesday, and the entire Senate must wait one day before voting. A spokeswoman for Sessions declined to comment.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EBoente (pronounced BEN-tay), who was sworn in at 9 p.m., said he would serve until Sessions is confirmed, which he understood from news reports might happen by week’s end. He declined to say when or by whom he was approached to take over as acting attorney general, and he also declined to discuss the specifics of Yates’s memo.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EBoente is a longtime federal prosecutor who has a remarkably low-key demeanor, although he has supervised high-profile investigations and prosecutions. Assistant U.S. attorneys from his office were involved in the probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and they won the criminal convictions — which were later vacated — against former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell (R). Boente also led the prosecutions of former U.S. representative William J. Jefferson (D-La.) and former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin (D). At his swearing-in ceremony as U.S. attorney, then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch called him “that reliable middle child, the one you could always count on to be there for you.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EBoente would not have been first in the line of succession ordered by Obama, who had placed U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia, Chicago and Los Angeles ahead.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EYates’s refusal to defend to Trump’s immigration order — and her firing over it — capped a day in which resistance to the ban fomented inside the government and across the country.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003ECivil rights lawyers and others across the country increased the pressure on Trump on Monday to dial back the ban — filing legal challenges to the executive order as they worked to determine whether people were still being improperly denied entry or detained. Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, who worked on one of the legal challenges, said of Yates’s memo, “It sends a very strong message that there’s something very wrong with the Muslim ban.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EEarlier in the day, former president Barack Obama also weighed in on the executive action through a spokesman, seeming to back those demonstrating against Trump’s decree and declaring his opposition to “discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EObama said that he was “heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country” — an apparent reference to protests at airports nationwide. He also disputed Trump’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2017\/01\/29\/trumps-facile-claim-that-his-refugee-policy-is-similar-to-obama-in-2011\/?utm_term=.28691ce1f588\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\"\u003Eclaim\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that his ban was based on Obama administration decisions.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EA Justice Department official familiar with the matter said Yates felt that she was in an “impossible situation” and had been struggling with what to do about a measure she did not consider lawful. A Justice Department official confirmed over the weekend that the department’s Office of Legal Counsel had been asked to review the measure to determine whether it was “on its face lawful and properly drafted.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIn her memo, though, Yates said her role was broader. She wrote that an Office of Legal Counsel review does “not address whether any policy choice embodied in an Executive Order is wise or just,” nor does it “take account of statements made by an administration or its surrogates close in time to the issuance of an Executive Order that may bear on the order’s purpose.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThat could be a reference to Trump’s campaign trail comments about a “Muslim ban” or the recent assertion by Trump surrogate Rudolph W. Giuliani that the president had asked him\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/01\/29\/trump-asked-for-a-muslim-ban-giuliani-says-and-ordered-a-commission-to-do-it-legally\/?utm_term=.f18bfc5eb5b2\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\"\u003E“the right way to do it legally.”\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EDemocrats criticized Yates’s firing as an unfair termination of someone who was following the law. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, “What the Trump administration calls betrayal is an American with the courage to say that the law and the Constitution come first.” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the termination “underscores how important it is to have an attorney general who will stand up to the White House when they are violating the law,” and said many have doubts about Sessions.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EOthers, though, turned their ire on Yates.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E“It can’t be stated strongly enough how reckless, irresponsible and improper the behavior was of the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, in refusing to defend the president’s order,” senior policy adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EMiller accused Yates of “refusing to defend the lawful powers of the president.” He also said he had no doubt about the legality of the order.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EGeorge J. Terwilliger III, a deputy attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration, said Yates’s memo was a “foolish, naked political move by what appears to be an ambitious holdover official” that would only create “unnecessary disorder.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EEven with Yates gone, there remain serious questions about the implementation of the order. A lawsuit in Virginia asserted that dozens of people may have been forced to give up their green cards by Customs and Border Protection agents, although that figure could not immediately be substantiated. Lawyers in Los Angeles said they had received similar reports, though they were still exploring them.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe ACLU’s Gelernt said that lawyers were “having trouble independently verifying anything because the government will not provide full access to all the detainees.” Of particular concern, he said, was that the government had not turned over a list of detainees, as it had been ordered to do by a federal judge in New York. He said that lawyers might be back in federal court in the next day or so to forcibly get access to it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe ACLU lawsuit in New York is perhaps the most significant of a growing number of legal challenges. The Council on American-Islamic Relations also filed a sweeping challenge Monday, alleging that the order is meant “to initiate the mass expulsion of immigrant and non-immigrant Muslims lawfully residing in the United States.” The lawsuit lists 27 plaintiffs, many of them lawful permanent residents and refugees who allege that Trump’s order will deny them citizenship or prevent them from traveling abroad and returning home. Lawyers with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a similar challenge in Washington state.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EBob Ferguson, Washington state’s attorney general, also filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging broad, constitutional concerns with the order and its impact on Washington — making him the first state official to do so. That lawsuit has the support of Microsoft and Amazon.com, two companies based in Washington state. (Amazon owner Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post and has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/1\/30\/14445390\/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-oppose-trump-immigration-order\" title=\"www.theverge.com\"\u003Evoiced Amazon’s opposition to the order personally\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWhite House press secretary Sean Spicer said that one lawsuit “doesn’t make any sense” and sought to minimize the action as simply subjecting 109 people to more rigorous screening. According to State Department statistics, about 90,000 people received nonimmigrant or immigrant visas in fiscal year 2015 from the seven countries affected by Trump’s executive order.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E[\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/some-international-passengers-entering-the-us-more-easily-but-members-of-congress-say-theyre-still-not-getting-answers\/2017\/01\/30\/ab0899bc-e71c-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.ca262cd094a5\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\"\u003ESome international passengers entering the U.S. more easily, but members of Congress say they’re still not getting answers\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;trebuchet ms\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EEd O’Keefe, Rachel Weiner, Ellen Nakashima, Juliet Eilperin, John Wagner and Carol Morello contributed to this report.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/587698618865442850\/comments\/default","title":"Enviar comentários"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=4255476021655725856\u0026postID=587698618865442850\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comentários"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/587698618865442850"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4255476021655725856\/posts\/default\/587698618865442850"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timoragora.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/the-monster-of-white-house.html","title":"THE MONSTER OF THE WHITE HOUSE - I"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"TIMOR AGORA"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00381269767851826234"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJ7Wm1Llp0w\/WSLKVSFzi3I\/AAAAAAAAhI0\/VMUvcyPT6NUdQzCU0zCXe1yIfoQzcBi7ACK4B\/s113\/timoragora%2Bpequeno%2B-%2BFIM.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ppu4KJGZwDY\/WJBLkYme96I\/AAAAAAAAcnw\/qc62MFobdAg6UvWGJ4k2nkXSD9ctuiuQwCLcB\/s72-c\/Sem%2BT%25C3%25ADtulo.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});