Sen. John McCain Is Now Trump's Top Republican Nemesis in Congress

Sen. John McCain has emerged as President Donald Trump's top Republican nemesis on Capitol Hill.

Since Trump's inauguration, McCain has broken with the president on his immigration order, warned him against any rapprochement with Moscow, lectured him on the illegality of torture, and supplied only a tepid endorsement of Rex Tillerson, Trump's secretary of state nominee.

Oh, and McCain also hammered Trump for backing away from - instead of embracing - international free trade agreements.

As Trump presses ahead with an ambitious and contentious agenda at home and abroad, McCain is pushing back, using his seniority in Congress and his characteristic bluntness. McCain, 80, cruised to a sixth Senate term in November, defeating a Democratic challenger who hounded the senator for standing by Trump even after the billionaire businessman insulted him as a "loser.''

Trump, who received several draft deferments during the Vietnam era, also said there was nothing heroic about McCain's military record after he was shot down during the Vietnam War and spent 5 years as a prisoner of war.

McCain dropped his support for Trump in early October after a 2005 recording surfaced in which Trump boasted about groping women. The move led to an outcry from conservative voters firmly behind Trump. But McCain overcame the backlash in what may have been his final election.

He hasn't looked back.

Trump's immigration order, signed by the president Friday, temporarily suspends all immigration for citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries for 90 days. McCain, along with his close friend and Senate colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said they feared Trump's immigration order could "become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.''

"This executive order sends a signal, intended or not, that America does not want Muslims coming into our country. That is why we fear this executive order may do more to help terrorist recruitment than improve our security,'' McCain and Graham wrote.

That elicited an angry tweet from Trump, who accused the two of "looking to start World War III.''

McCain and other senators said that Trump's order, unless amended, would ban Iraqi pilots from coming to the United States for training so they can join the fight against the Islamic State. The travel ban could also affect Iraqis who worked with the U.S.-led coalition and, after lengthy reviews, received special immigrant visas to enter the U.S., according to the lawmakers.

"I hope that they are working to walk what they did back and learn that you better really vet these decisions before you make them,'' McCain told reporters Tuesday.

As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain is one of the leading Republican voices in Congress on national security matters. Re-elected last year to another six years in office, he is free to challenge the president without fear of retribution from voters.

U.S.-Russia Relations

And perhaps on no issue has McCain been more unequivocal than of Trump's desire for a better relationship with Moscow.

Trump's praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin before and after the election signaled that U.S.-Russia relations could be getting a makeover - even after U.S. intelligence agencies determined Moscow meddled in the campaign to help Trump win.

But McCain has little interest in detente with a country that has invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea, threatened America's NATO allies, and backed Syrian President Bashar Assad's "murderous'' regime.

Ahead of a telephone call on Saturday between the two leaders, McCain issued a blistering statement in which he called Putin a "murderer and a thug'' who will never be an ally of the United States. He cautioned Trump against lifting U.S. sanctions against Russia and voiced his support for legislation that would broaden the punishments and even codify them in law.

"Each of our last three presidents had high hopes for building a partnership with the Russian government,'' McCain said. "Each attempt failed, not for lack of good faith and effort on the U.S. side, but because Putin wants to be our enemy. He needs us as his enemy.''

McCain has been bucking his own party for years. In the mid-1990s, he worked with then-Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, to help President Bill Clinton restore full diplomatic relations with Vietnam. McCain also teamed up with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and, more recently, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to craft bipartisan legislation aimed at repairing the nation's flawed immigration system.

McCain served in the U.S. House and then was elected to the Senate in 1986, succeeding conservative Barry Goldwater. He will be 86 when his new term ends, making him one of the oldest- and longest-serving members of the Senate.

(VOANews)

Whoa! VOA Celebrates 75 Years on the Air

A little more than seven weeks after the United States officially entered World War II, a live, 15-minute shortwave radio broadcast was transmitted into Germany from a small studio in New York City on February 1, 1942.

It was introduced by the American patriotic song "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Then, announcer William Harlan Hale's voice could be heard saying: “We bring you Voices from America. Today, and daily from now on, we shall speak to you about America and the war. The news may be good for us. The news may be bad. But we shall tell you the truth.”

That was the very first broadcast from what, 75 years later, is now the Washington-headquartered Voice of America.

By the end of the war, VOA was broadcasting in 40 languages, with programming consisting of music, news and commentary.

Since then, VOA has grown into a multimedia international broadcasting service, with programming and content in 47 languages on multiple platforms, including radio, television and mobile.

On that first broadcast, announcer Hale's words set the standard for future programs.

​And since 1976, his words have carried the weight of the VOA Charter, which by law requires VOA to “serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news.” What’s more, it says VOA news must “be accurate, objective and comprehensive.”

“It’s been 75 years since we first began broadcasting objective news and information around the world,” said VOA Director Amanda Bennett. “And now, I think what we do here is more important than ever.”

Over the years, VOA correspondents and freelance reporters in many parts of the world have been on the scene to cover major world events.

In 1989, VOA East European correspondent Jolyon Naegele reported on demonstrations in Czechoslovakia and the fall of the communist government. Later that year, on the other side of the world, VOA increased programming and added staff to its Beijing bureau to cover the student-led demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Beijing Bureau chief Al Pessin was expelled from China for his reporting.

Today, VOA broadcasts news and other programming through 2,500 television and radio affiliates around the world. At the same time, it provides content for mobile devices and interacts with audiences through social media.

As of 2016, VOA's weekly audience across all platforms averaged more than 236 million people worldwide.

(VOANews)

Check Out This 16-Year-Old Boy Who Is The Second Tallest Basketball Player In The World

He is taller than anyone else in the NBA!

Robert Bobroczky is a 7-foot-7, 16-year-old freshman at SPIRE Institute, a state-of-the-art international academy in Geneva, Ohio, who is set to become the tallest player to ever play in the NBA and of the tallest in the history of the sport.

Bobroczky, a native of Romania, has been described as “so tall he doesn’t look real”.

At age 12, he was already 7 feet tall, and although his growth rate has slowed down over the last four years, he is still on track to become the eighteenth person in medical history to reach or surpass eight feet in height. Unfortunately, his weight has been having trouble keeping up with his growth, and at 7-foot-7, he weighs only 190 pounds. Robert is honing is skills on the basketball court, but if he is to reach the NBA, the first priority is bulking up.

The world first heard about Robert Bobroczky a couple of years ago, when a video of him towering over other teenagers on the basketball court went viral on Facebook, with over 3 million views. He was 7-foot-3 at the time, basically a giant for his age. That’s when Bobby Bossman, Executive Director of SPIRE Institute became interested in the young man.

“Oddly enough, it all started on Facebook,” he told Maxpreps. “We reached out to him a year ago and got to know him and his family. They trusted us and came over to America to visit and here we are. He’s been at our school for three months now and lives on campus.”

Robert’s father, Zsiga, was also a professional basketball player who played on Romania’s national team, alongside 7-foot-7 Gheorghe Muresan, one of the two tallest players to have ever played in the NBA. His father is “just” 7-foot-1 tall, though. He and his wife agreed to move to America to help Robert reach his full potential as a basketball player.

Still a freshman, Robert Bobroczky recently made his high school basketball debut on Jan. 12, in an 87-51 loss to First Love Christian Academy of Washington, Pa., but only played for a few minutes.

His coaches just want him to get accustomed to the type of basketball played in the U.S. for now, but hope to use him on the court full time starting next year. “I told him:

“We want you to be comfortable, we want you to have fun and everything else will take care of itself’,” Bossman said.

“Robert has a great mid-range shot for his size and can also step out and hit 3-pointers,” the SPIRE Executive Director added. “He has great hands, passing ability and a soft touch around the rim. He has the body, intelligence and skill set to be a pro one day. He’s not even close to reaching his potential. But the thing that separates Robert from others is his strong work ethic. The kid just wants it.”

 One of his biggest challenges, however, is moving up and down the court at a good pace, which isn’t exactly easy for a boy with such a long frame. “We do weight training to harden his core and he’s also in the pool three times a week with our trainers strengthening muscle groups,” Bobby Bossman told Maxpreps. “He eats three meals a day along with protein and meal replacement shakes. The main thing is ensuring we give him enough calories in his diet, and we’re in the adaptive stage to see how his body responds.”

At just 16 years old, Robert Bobroczky would be the tallest basketball player in the NBA right now, and is in fact the second tallest basketball player in the world, behind 29-year-old Paul Sturgess, a 7-foot-8 professional player from England.

Trump : I Will Not Allow Killing Of Christians To Continue

President Donald Trump has stated that he would not allow the killing of Christians to continue.

Trump, who stated this in a tweet, via his Twitter handle, said Christians, especially in the Midde-East have been executed in large numbers.

Last week, he signed an executive order imposing a ban on citizens from seven predominately Muslim countries – Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Somalia.

His action has sparked off a protest in the US.

Trump’s tweet reads, “Christians in the Middle-East have been executed in large numbers. We cannot allow this horror to continue.”

Minority Christians have been victims of attacks in Syria and Iraq by the Islamic State since its insurgency started.

Tragic! 8-Year-Old Girl And One Other American Die In Trump's First Anti-terror Raid

It has been reported that two Americans were killed in Donald Trump's first anti-terror raid on foreign soil. This includes an eight-year-old girl whose father was an al-Qaeda leader, and a Navy SEAL Team Six member involved in the mission. Nawar al-Awlaki, also known as Nora, was among the non-combatants killed - along with several women - in Sunday's military operation at an Al-Qaeda camp in Yemen.

The little girl was the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a dual US-Yemeni citizen who was the first American to die in a US drone strike.

The other American citizen killed in the raid was Chief Petty Officer William 'Ryan' Owens, 36, who died during a gun battle.

The fate of Nawar's mother is not known, but one of her uncles was also killed, NBC News reports.

Her 16-year-old brother, Abdulrahman, also a US citizen, was killed in a drone strike in Yemen two weeks after their father died in 2011.

After Sunday's raid by the top secret Joint Special Operations Command, US officials said it was estimated that 14 al-Qaeda militants were killed.

Yemenis claimed that as many as 59 combatants and civilians, including women, were killed.

Odion Ighalo Set For £20 Million Move To China As Emmanuel Adebayor Turkish Club Istanbul Basaksehir

Watford F.C. of England and China’s Changchun Yatai have agreed a fee of £20 million for Super Eagles’ Odion Ighalo. The Nigerian who has scored just two goals for the Premier League side in the ongoing season has also agreed personal terms with the Chinese club.

Coach Walter Mazzarri’s forward options have been boosted with the arrival of Mauro Zarate on a two-and-a-half-year deal from Fiorentina.

Meanwhile, former Manchester City, Tottenham, Real madrid and Arsenal forward, Emmanuel Adebayor is back to playing football.

Adebayor’s career seemed to have entered a coma after he failed to reach an agreement with Manchester City to have his contract terminated and eventually when his contract expired, he moved to Crystal Palace. He became a free agent again in the summer when his contract with Crystal palace expired.

Kudos to him.

Man Dies Inside Tanker In Lagos As He Attempts To ‘Theif’ (photos)

A man yet to be identified, who attempted to steal petrol inside a stationary tanker, was snuffed to death by the fume. This incident was disclosed by the Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, on Tuesday.

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Consumer confidence drops more than expected

Consumer confidence dropped by more than expected in January, according to the latest reading from the Conference Board.

The consumer confidence index fell to 111.8, below economists' expectations of a drop to 112.8.

This follows the prior month's reading, which saw consumer confidence climb to a post-recession high of 113.7. At the time, the Conference Board attributed the surge "solely" to increasing expectations.

"The decline in confidence was driven solely by a less optimistic outlook for business conditions, jobs, and especially consumers’ income prospects," Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in the report.

"Consumers’ assessment of current conditions, on the other hand, improved in January. Despite the retreat in confidence, consumers remain confident that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months.

Notably, consumers' short-term outlook, which increased significantly in December, backtracked in January. The percentage of those expecting business conditions to improve over the next six months dropped to 23.1% from 24.7%, while those expecting business conditions to worsen rose to 10.7% from 8.9%.

Additionally, the percentage of those expecting more jobs in the upcoming months decreased to 19.8% from 21.7%, while those expecting less jobs was unchanged at 14.0%. The percentage of those expecting incomes to increase dropped to 18.0% from 21.5%, while the proportion of those expecting a decrease increase to 9.6% from 8.6%.

Source: Business Insider

Riot in Lagos as Hausa Trader Kills Driver Over N30

The Mojeed Sanni Street, Igando area of Lagos State was thrown into chaos on Monday after a 40-year-old Hausa trader, Ibrahim Adamu, allegedly killed a bus driver, Lekan Adeleke.

The incident led to riot as some residents and friends of the victim created a bonfire on the road, thereby chasing away Hausa traders in the community, The Punch reports.

The men, who were on the rampage when policemen from the Igando division, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Olatunji Ajimuda, stormed the area, also threatened to avenge the killing of their friend.

It was gathered that the deceased had bought noodles worth N230 from the suspect’s son on Sunday around 10.30pm.

He was said to have paid N200 with a promise to pay the balance of N30 the following day, a dealing which the suspect’s son didn’t approve of.

The son then told his father, Adamu, who became angry and attacked 30-year-old Adeleke with a spiked plank.

Adeleke was reported to have slumped and hit his head against the concrete edge of a gutter in the area.

Speaking on the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said investigations were ongoing.

She said, “It was a case of murder. One Adamu used a plank to hit a bus driver, Adeleke, in the head which led to his death. The corpse was deposited in the Mainland General Hospital morgue for autopsy.

“Meanwhile, we have intensified patrol in the area as normalcy has been restored.”

Source: 360nobs

Media mogul, Oprah Winfrey to become a contributor to CBS' '60 Minutes'

Oprah Winfrey will contribute several stories to the coming season of "60 Minutes," CBS announced Tuesday.

The deal joins one of the most famous women in the world with the most prestigious newsmagazine on television.

Winfrey will be a "special contributor," CBS said. This means she'll have several stories on the upcoming season of the newsmagazine. The first story will air sometime in the fall.

CBS declined to comment on the length of Winfrey's contributor deal.

Jeff Fager, the executive producer of the program, said it was "invigorating" discussing the partnership.

"She's a wonderful person full of energy and ideas," he told CNN.

Winfrey's main outlet remains OWN, the cable channel she co-owns with Discovery Communications. But "60 Minutes" will allow her to reach many more people with a single segment. The program regularly draws 10 to 20 million viewers a week.

In a statement on Tuesday, she said, "I've been a big admirer of 60 MINUTES since my days as a young reporter. I'm so excited and proud to join forces with this historic news program, which for me represents the bastion of journalistic storytelling."

She added: "At a time when people are so divided, my intention is to bring relevant insight and perspective, to look at what separates us, and help facilitate real conversations between people from different backgrounds."

Winfrey's longtime friend Gayle King already works for CBS as the co-host of "CBS This Morning." That's where the contributor news was announced on Tuesday.

"I am so psyched about it," King said on the show. "I know she's equally excited. She has said all the time she doesn't miss the day-to-day of the show, but what she does miss is storytelling and connecting with people, women in particular, and being able to meet and talk to them and interact with them. That's what she really misses. So to me, this is a perfect marriage."

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Trump’s policies pose an external 'threat' to Europe - EU chief

The leader of the European Union put longtime ally the United States in a “threat” category on Tuesday, insisting that President Donald Trump is contributing to the “highly unpredictable” outlook for the bloc.

In a letter to 27 EU leaders before Friday’s summit in Malta, Tusk mentioned the Trump administration as part of an external “threat” together with China, Russia, radical Islam, war and terror.

Echoing statements from many European capitals, he said that those global challenges, “as well as worrying declarations by the new American administration, all make our future highly unpredictable.”

He said that “particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy.”

This year marks the centennial of the U.S. entry in World War I, and it marked the beginning of the American century as well as the enduring trans-Atlantic bond with Europe. Tensions have risen though since Trump was elected U.S. president.

Trump has questioned the NATO alliance linking North America and Europe, and hopes for a major trans-Atlantic trade deal have already taken a deep dive amid worries of U.S. protectionism.

“We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall,” Tusk said in the letter and also told a news conference in Tallinn, Estonia, after meeting with the three Baltic prime ministers before the Malta summit.

Britain wasn’t part of the letter since it is poised to leave the EU and is only scheduled to attend part of the leaders’ meeting in La Valletta. The decision to leave was the biggest setback for the EU in decades, and Trump didn’t endear himself with many EU leaders by saying that Brexit “will be a tremendous asset and not a tremendous liability.”

Tusk wrote to the leaders that “in politics, the argument of dignity must not be overused,” before adding that “today we must stand up very clearly for our dignity, the dignity of a united Europe — regardless of whether we are talking to Russia, China, the U.S. or Turkey.”

And Tusk further insisted that any disintegration wouldn’t be beneficial to the restored nation states, but instead lead to “their real and factual dependence on the great superpowers: the United States, Russia and China.

(AP)

Anambra state born Big brother Naija house mate, Gifty, who seems to be the 'finest' in the house and always trying to flirt with all the guys in the house is married to a Nollywood movie director, David Sorochukwu Akumah.

The way she come close to every guy in the house made viewers feel she is so single. But yesterday after she rushed up to the new male housemate, Bassey, people started investigating her and found out she has been married since 2014. 

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Photos Of Apostle Johnson Suleman On His Way To DSS Headquarters

The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman, was pictured on his way to the Department of State Service Headquarters in Abuja. The cleric was invited for interrogation on Monday by 10am, based on his recent alleged inciting comments that Christians should defend themselves against attacks by Fulani herdsmen.

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Nigeria Railway Workers Express Fear Of Job Loss

The Nigeria Union of Railway Workers has expressed fear that the planned concession of the railway system by the Federal Government could lead to loss of jobs of no fewer than 15,000 of its members.

Saidu Garba, the President-General of the union, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos that the concession “will also retard the economy instead of growth’’.

He, therefore, advised the Federal Government to reverse the planned concession so as not to worsen the nation’s economy.

According to him, privatisation policy has not brought any positive change to the economy from its inception.

“It is not good for government to continue falling into the same mistakes all the time.

“Some privatised government companies, bought by individuals, are not making progress up till date.

“NEPA and NITEL are good examples of failure of the privatisation policy in the country.

“Some of the privatised company still collect bailout funds from the government, which should not be so,” he said.

The union leader said that the proposed concession, if implemented, would affect over 15,000 work force of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC).

“We are appealing to the government to reverse its plan on the concession,” Mr. Garba said.

NAN, however, reports that the fear of job loss, if the railway is concessioned, was allayed by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, in October 2016 in Abuja.

Mr. Amaechi said at an International Transportation Conference in Abuja, where the idea of concessioning the railway was announced, that an American company, General Electric (GE) would take over the management of NRC under a concession plan.

According to him, the entrance of General Electric into the management of the NRC was to harness the full potential of rail transportation infrastructure.

The concession arrangement, billed to commence in the first quarter of 2017, Amaechi said, will also create additional new jobs.

He said that the Federal Government had full knowledge of the current hardship in the country but was determined to curb corruption at all levels while turning the economy around.

(NAN)

Donald Trump’s Immigration Order Sows Chaos At Airports, Outrage At Protests

President Donald Trump's immigration order sowed more chaos and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering opposition to the sweeping measure that was blocked by several federal courts.

Attorneys struggled to determine how many people had been affected so far by the rules, which Trump said Saturday were "working out very nicely."

But critics described widespread confusion, with an untold number of travelers being held in legal limbo because of ill-defined procedures. Lawyers manned tables at New York's Kennedy Airport to offer help to families whose loved ones had been detained, and some 150 Chicago-area lawyers showed up at O'Hare Airport after getting an email asking for legal assistance on behalf of travelers.

"We just simply don't know how many people there are and where they are," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project.

Advocates for travelers say the chaos is likely to continue. The executive director of National Immigration Law Center, Marielena Hincapie, said "this is just the beginning."

"We're really in a crisis mode, a constitutional crisis mode in our country, and we're going to need everyone," she said. "This is definitely one of those all-hands-on-deck moments."

Meanwhile, protests continued across the country Sunday. Demonstrations first erupted Saturday, a day after Trump signed the order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. The president also suspended the U.S. refugee program for four months.

In Washington D.C., hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the White House, some holding signs that read, "We are all immigrants in America." More than 100 protesters also gathered at the international terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, cheering people arriving from Muslim countries.

At the main Dallas-Fort Worth airport, some 200 people held signs and chanted, "Let them go!" They awaited word on nine people detained at the airport, most of them Iranian, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Demonstrations also unfolded at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Airport and in suburban Chicago, where a Jewish group organized a protest to support Muslims.

Lawyers in Chicago crowded into a food court Saturday at O'Hare, some walking around with signs offering legal help. One volunteer attorney, Julia Schlozman, jumped on a subway train and headed to O'Hare even though she is a criminal attorney, not an immigration lawyer.

"I just felt like I had to do something," she told the Chicago Tribune.

A federal judge in New York issued an order Saturday temporarily blocking the government from deporting people with valid visas who arrived after Trump's travel ban took effect. But confusion remained about who could stay and who will be kept out of the country. Federal courts in Virginia, Massachusetts and Washington state took similar action.

A more decisive ruling on the legality of the Trump action by U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly will probably take at least several weeks. Opponents and government attorneys will get a chance to lay out their arguments in filings and possibly in oral arguments in court, Gelernt said. Activists said their goal was to have Trump's order overturned entirely.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, known for usually tempering his public comments, did not hold back in a statement Sunday about Trump's measures: "Their design and implementation have been rushed, chaotic, cruel and oblivious to the realities" of security. They had, he added, ushered in "a dark moment in U.S. history."

University presidents criticized the ban and cautioned students and professors from the seven listed countries to beware of traveling outside the U.S. for now The president of the University of Notre Dame, Father John I. Jenkins, was among the sharp critics of the ban.

"If it stands, it will over time diminish the scope and strength of the educational and research efforts of American universities," he said Sunday in a statement. And he added: "We respectfully urge the president to rescind this order."

There was no sign the Trump administration might heed such calls. The Department Of Homeland Security said in a statement issued Sunday that "prohibited travel will remain prohibited."

An official with the Department of Homeland Security who briefed reporters by phone on Saturday said 109 people who were in transit on airplanes had been denied entry and 173 had not been allowed to get on their planes overseas.

No green-card holders were turned away from entering the U.S. as of Saturday, the official said, though several spent hours in detention before being allowed in.

Hameed Khalid Darweesh, a translator and assistant for the U.S. military in Iraq for 10 years now fleeing death threats, was among at least a dozen people detained at Kennedy Airport. He walked free after his lawyers, two members of Congress and as many as 2,000 demonstrators went to the airport to seek his release.

After an appeal from civil liberties lawyers, Judge Donnelly issued an emergency order Saturday barring the U.S. from summarily deporting people who arrived with valid visas or an approved refugee application, saying it would likely violate their legal rights.

Before Trump signed the order, more than 67,000 refugees had been approved by the federal government to enter the U.S., said Jen Smyers, refugee policy director for Church World Service. More than 6,400 had already been booked on flights, including 15 families that had been expected over the next few weeks in the Chicago area from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iran, Syria and Uganda.

The bulk of refugees entering the U.S. are settled by religious groups. All that work ground to a halt after Trump signed the order.

(AP)