Outcry Over Immigration Ban Spans the Weekend in KC
February 6, 2017 | Hilary Becker, Chase Castor | 1 min read
As it has across the country, the temporary immigration ban instituted by President Trump continued to reverberate through the Kansas City area over the weekend.
The activities, including a town-hall forum organized Saturday by U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat, came against the backdrop of a fast-developing story. A federal judge in Washington state suspended the ban Friday, and an appeals court early Sunday morning rejected the administration’s appeal of that ruling.
The order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries — Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen — from entering the U.S. for 90 days. It also stops all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halts refugees from Syria.
Even before the court action, the administration eased restrictions on legal permanent residents initially caught up in the president’s Jan. 27 executive order.
Flatland tracked developments in the Kansas City area through social media and with images captured by photojournalist Chase Castor, who attended the KC Rejects White Supremacy rally on Friday in downtown Kansas City and the KC Interfaith Vigil For Immigrants and Refugees on Sunday at Overland Park Christian Church, 7600 W. 75th St.
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