Andrew Lynes of Boise, Idaho joins a group of more than 600 people protesting President Donald Trump's refugee policy on January 29, 2017 at the Boise Airport. Idaho Statesman/TNS/ABACA ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.Trump’s executive order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries (including war-torn Syria) and temporarily halting the admission of all refugees is first and foremost an affront to humanitarianism, rightly characterised by Dylan Matthews as a ‘triumph of cruelty’ towards those fleeing war and persecution.
From the thousands of individuals whose lives are being affected by the order, to the collective sense of ‘this isn’t who we are,’ the order undercuts the core values that the United States purports to stand for as it dismisses any sense of compassion.
the new order is not only immoral, it is also illegal, under both US domestic law and US obligations to the 1951 Convention on Refugees
