What Trump Immigration Ban Means For Illinois
On the 21st: We looked at the effect of President Trump's executive ban on immigration across the state, including people who are directly affected and those trying to help them.
On the 21st: We looked at the effect of President Trump's executive ban on immigration across the state, including people who are directly affected and those trying to help them.
An estimated 600 people attended Sunday’s rally against President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries. The event came together after organizers like Ann Abbott reached out on Facebook the night before. She says the Trump administration is trying to use fear to pit U.S. citizens against one another. “This is not 2001, this is 2017, and we are smart, not scared,” she told the crowd.
Lisa Madigan joined with attorneys general in 15 other states in a statement condemning "President Trump's unconstitutional, un-American, and unlawful Executive Order."
President Trump's executive order on immigration is sending shockwaves across the U.S. and the globe.
Just one day after he enacted a ban on the admittance of all refugees to the United States, temporarily freezing immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries, confusion, chaos and fear are roiling international airports. Refugees are being barred from boarding U.S.-bound flights. Immigrants are being detained at U.S. airports.
On the 21st: We got to the bottom of the question, "Do 'brain-training' programs work?'" and met a Champaign doctor who has taken several trips overseas to provide medical care to Syrian refugees. Plus, Chicago band Options stopped by to play a few songs off their new record "Maxed Out."