On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee admissions and temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The move sparked numerous protests and legal challenges. A week later a federal judge in Seattle suspended it nationwide, allowing banned visitors to travel to the US pending an appeal by the administration.

Mr Trump and his supporters say the controversial executive order makes good on election promises to "make America great again".

But it was dubbed a "Muslim ban" and has been winding its way through the courts, many of which have ruled it an unconstitutional bar based on religious discrimination. Just ask the German Jews fleeing Hitler, who were denied entry into the United States by the Roosevelt Administration - oh wait, we can't.


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