WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - US President Donald Trump moved within weeks of taking office to prohibit immigrants from Sudan from entering the United States, citing terrorism threats and including it in his travel ban on some predominantly Muslim countries - restrictions that remain partly in place today.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump moved within weeks of taking office to prohibit immigrants from Sudan from entering the United States, citing terrorism threats and including it in his travel ban on some predominantly Muslim countries - restrictions that remain partly in place today.
And Trump's declaration that"we welcome five absolutely incredible new members into our great American family" stands in stark contrast to his anti-immigrant policies, often fueled by xenophobic language. "It is a special moment, to get it from a president of the United States, to give me the citizenship," she said.
But others, including Sudha Sundari Narayanan, 35, who was also among the five people sworn in at the White House, said they had not been told. Salih Abdul Samad, a Ghanaian chef, also did not know that the event would be broadcast during the convention."When you call me, you have to go through security background checks because I'm a star," Abdul Samad, 44, joked.
Fewer than 150 people had been denaturalised in American courts in the previous 50 years, almost all of them Nazis, war criminals or people who were convicted of federal crimes tied to large-scale immigration fraud.He has built nearly 480km of border wall .
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