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<\/a>Alexandria Galtney\n<\/strong>Managing Editor<\/em><\/p>\n
On Friday, Jan. 27, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to put a pause on all immigration in some countries with a history of terrorism and the U.S. refugee program.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s executive order, which some are calling a \u201cMuslim Ban,\u201d is fulfilling one of his controversial campaign pledges.<\/p>\n
All travelers, except United States citizens, traveling from Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Iran, Libya and Yemen, will temporarily be suspended from entry into the country for 90 days.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration announced that these countries were on a list for \u201ccountries of concerns\u201d formally made during the Obama administration, but the executive order was never implemented.<\/p>\n
Some travelers that were in the air while the order was being signed were sent back to the countries they flew in from. Others were detained, and those who have citizenship coming back from their home countries had to be rescreened.<\/p>\n
Presidents have broad power in shaping immigration policy, but some critics feel parts of Trump\u2019s order are unconstitutional and discriminatory.<\/p>\n
The executive order has received global backlash from U.S. citizens, federal judges, foreign leaders, and prime ministers.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people from New York, Atlanta, Dallas and Seattle staged protests at major airports across the country. Vocal crowds against the order even gathered outside the White House.<\/p>\n
Many students at Jackson State University, particularly those hailing from banned regions, were very concerned about the order and how it will affect them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like it hurts a lot of international students who are here to study and get an education,\u201d said Taha Merghams, a senior computer engineering major from Sudan.<\/p>\n
Senior Omar Khattab, a native of Saudi Arabia majoring in entrepreneurship said, \u201cIt\u2019s undemocratic. It\u2019s not what the country was based and founded on, because I think America is America because of immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some students not personally affected by the ban still felt that it was unfair.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely absurd and I think it marginalizes a great deal of black students too, not just Muslim or international students,\u201d said Jessica James, a senior political science major from Clarksdale, Miss.<\/p>\n
Antonio Harper feels the ban will eventually hurt the U.S. economically.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t like it at all. We have a lot of immigrants coming to the U.S., especially Mississippi, to look for work and jobs,\u201d said Harper, a freshman computer engineering major.<\/p>\n