On Friday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that halts the United States refugee resettlement program for four months, blocks all Syrians from seeking and taking refuge in the United States and puts in place a block for people from most Muslim countries to enter the United States at all. Trump’s refugee ban is taking place in the middle of the biggest refugee crisis of our time.
For people who still have the ability to sense irony a week into the Trump administration, Donald Trump signed this executive order banning refugees on Holocaust Remembrance Day. He also released a statement about the Holocaust that talked about Nazis but forgot to mention Jewish people or anti-Semitism.
Trump said in an event for the swearing-in of his Secretary of Defense James Mattis, “I am establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America. We don’t want them here. We don’t want to admit into our country the very threats we are fighting overseas.”
These are photos of the refugees that Donald Trump just slammed the door on:
