On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that bars citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) with US visas from entering the United States for 90 days. It also blocks refugees from these countries for four months and, in the case of people fleeing Syria, indefinitely. (The Department of Homeland Security clarified on Sunday that green-card holders from these countries would be permitted to enter the country following additional screening.) It's a humanitarian crisis and despite a federal judge ruling that some of the people who'd already arrived in the US can't be deported, there are still many being detained and others who've been barred from even getting on a flight here.
Immigrants contribute great things to the US, and there are more than 25,000 students and workers from these seven countries living here on temporary visas, including in the fields of medicine and science. More than 7,000 academics (including 40 Nobel Laureates) have signed a petition denouncing the immigration ban as discriminatory and detrimental to both national security and higher education and research. ProPublica reports that citizens of Iran and Iraq have more visas than people from the other five countries on the list and are disproportionately affected. The petitioners themselves note that, "From Iran alone, more than 3,000 students have received PhDs from American universities in the past 3 years."
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