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Travel ban: Trump defends order as dispute over UK visit deepens – as it happened

Anger across America at Donald Trump’s travel ban – video report

Closing summary

We’re closing this live blog now but our live coverage of the reaction to Trump’s travel ban continues. Here’s a summary:

  • Donald Trump has defended the implementation of a travel ban preventing people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US. “If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the “bad” would rush into our country during that week,” he tweeted.
  • The ban has caused confusion, protests and a series of legal actions at entry ports across the US. A protest is planned in London on Monday evening. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he hopes to attend.
  • Theresa May has been booed in Cardiff by protesters against Trump’s travel ban. After the meeting, where the prime minister was discussing Brexit with leaders of the devolved assemblies, the Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said that Trump’s state visit should be cancelled while travel bans are in place.
  • Downing Street has insisted that Trump’s state visit to the UK will go ahead despite widespread criticism of the invite including from several former ministers. A Downing Street source said: “To scrap the visit would undo everything following Mrs May’s visit. America is a huge and important ally we have to think long term.”
  • Chancellor Angela Merkel said the global fight against terrorism does not warrant putting groups of people under suspicion. She said the ban is “contrary to the basic principles of international refugee help and international cooperation.”
  • More than 1.25 million people have signed a petition calling for the visit to be cancelled. The Commons is expected to vote on whether to debate the visit.
  • The US embassy in Britain has insisted that it will not be offering visas to travellers from the seven countries, including those with dual nationality. This contradicts and assurance given to foreign secretary Boris Johnson, who is is due to update the Commons on US travel ban.
  • Labour has accused Theresa May of “appeasing” Trump by refusing to withdraw the state visit invitation. Shami Chakrabarti, shadow attorney general, said: “The world is in a very precarious situation at the moment and we will not make this world safer or fairer by appeasing bullies like Mr Trump.”
  • Thousands took to the streets in major cities and converged on airports to protest the executive orders. Protests blocked the main road outside the international terminal at Los Angeles international airport late on Sunday night.
  • Several people are reported still detained at LA airport, scene of legal challenges to the ban. An Iranian man with a valid visa is on his way back to the US after a federal court injunction stayed his removal back to Dubai from LA.
  • Yemen’s ministry of foreign affairs said it was dismayed by the decision to ban its citizens, warning that it “feeds into the narrative of extremists and sows division”. It added that Yemen is “on the front lines in the fight against terrorism”.
  • Indonesia, a Muslim nation not covered by the ban, said the policy could hurt the global fight against terror.
  • The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, said the travel orders were a “dark moment” in US history and contrary to American values.
  • Financial markets in Asia fell amid the confusion surrounding the orders and amid ongoing concern that Trump will pursue protectionist trade policies. Markets were set to fall in Europe on the opening.

Updated

Prince Charles would welcome a meeting with Donald Trump to discuss interfaith relations, sources close to him have said, amid a growing outcry at the US ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, writes Robert Booth.

A royal source said Charles remained willing to meet Trump if the state visit went ahead, saying: “It is not his style to turn his back.”

Charles’s record as an advocate for interfaith relations and his high-level connections in the Islamic world, including close relations with Saudi and Gulf state royals, were cited by royal sources as reasons why his views might carry weight with Trump.

Updated

Here’s footage of May being booed in Cardiff.

More from Cardiff where Theresa May was booed after attending a Brexit meeting with the heads of the devolved assemblies.

The Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said that Donald Trump’s state visit ought to be cancelled while travel bans are in place and has called on the prime minister to speak up more strongly against the values that the president’s policies have exposed, writes Steven Morris.

British Prime Minister Theresa May sits alongside members of her Cabinet as she prepares to chair a Joint Ministerial Committee at Cardiff City Hall in Cardiff. Also attending the talks were Outgoing Northern Ireland First Minister, Arlene Foster, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones, and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
British Prime Minister Theresa May sits alongside members of her Cabinet as she prepares to chair a Joint Ministerial Committee at Cardiff City Hall in Cardiff. Also attending the talks were Outgoing Northern Ireland First Minister, Arlene Foster, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones, and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon Photograph: Ben Birchall/AFP/Getty Images

Speaking after a one-to-one meeting with Theresa May that took place before the meeting of the joint ministerial committee in Cardiff, Sturgeon said she told the prime minister she should voice concerns about Trump more forcefully.

Sturgeon told the Guardian: “I said [to her] that while everybody understands that she wants to build a constructive relationship that relationship has to be based on values.

“I think many people would like to hear a stronger view from the UK government about the immigrant and refugee ban that was announced.

“I also said that I don’t think it would be appropriate in these circumstances for the state visit to go ahead while these bans are in place given the understandable concern that people have about them and the messages they send and the impact they have.”

Asked if May had gone to meet Trump too quickly, Sturgeon replied: “She’s the prime minister of the UK. Everybody would understand she wants to build a positive relationship with the president of the United States. As first minister of Scotland I want to build a constructive relationship with the new administration. I’m not criticising her for that. But relationships have to be based on values.

“We’ve all got a duty to speak up for fundamental values. There’s a real concern on the part of many that introducing what is seen by many as a ban on Muslims, banning people because of their origin or faith, is deeply wrong and likely to be counterproductive in terms of the fight we all have an interest in against extremism and terrorism.

“In terms of the refugee ban that in my view would go against the international obligations in terms of the Geneva Convention and the moral obligation we all have to deal with the refugee crisis.

“The prime minister made the obvious point that these are matters for the US government. But these are issues that start to touch on moral issues that go beyond individual countries policies. And we all have a duty in these instances to speak up when we consider values that we all hold dear to be under threat. As I said to the prime minister I think a lot of people would like to see her say something much more strong along those lines.”

She continued: “Morality is something we all have to judge for ourselves. I think there’s a very strong body of opinion across the UK. Nobody is suggesting the president of American can’t come to the UK nor is anyone suggesting a state visit is not appropriate at some stage but while these bans that have caused so much concern are in place it would be inappropriate for the state visit to proceed. It would be better to reconsider the timing of it.”

Asked if she would meet Trump in Scotland, Sturgeon said: “The relationship between Scotland and America is important. I’m not going to start getting into refusing meeting people but nor am I going to maintain diplomatic silences over things that are really important in a values and principles sense.”

Updated

Seven human rights organisations have warned that the operation of the Trump ban at Ireland’s two major airports could violate both Irish and European human rights law, writes Henry McDonald in Dublin.

The groups who include Amnesty International Ireland, the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) and the Irish Council of Civil Liberties have called today for an “urgent review” of how US Homeland Security operates at Dublin and Shannon airports.

Currently Homeland Security officials vet travellers from Ireland to the United States before they board transatlantic flights. Those sections of the two airports where Homeland Security check travellers passports and other personal information are effectively American territory.

In their statement the human rights groups said the Irish state must:

“Conduct an urgent review of the pre-clearance system operating in Ireland and take appropriate action, up to and including suspension of the pre-clearance agreement, where there might be a reasonable chance that a person’s rights under the Constitution, EU law or the European Convention on Human Rights may be under threat.

“Provide appropriate information on the applicable law and procedures to any person refused pre-clearance on the basis of the operation of the Executive Order. Irish immigration officials should also give any person refused pre-clearance the opportunity to seek legal advice. The organisations issuing this statement stand ready to give advice and/or make appropriate referrals, to any person refused pre-clearance in Ireland on the basis of the Executive Order.

“Clarify the role of Gardaí and immigration officials in the US pre-clearance process to ensure that in the exercise of their public functions, a person’s rights under the Irish Constitution, European Convention on Human Rights, EU law or international human rights law will not be violated.”

Updated

Bureaucratic uprising?

Hundreds of foreign service officers and diplomats are reported to be backing a dissent memo expressing opposition to Trump’s executive order banning refugees, according to Law Fare.

It quotes the memo as saying:

A policy which closes our doors to over 200 million legitimate travellers in the hopes of preventing a small number of travellers who intend to harm Americans from using the visa system to enter the United States will not achieve its aim of making our country safer. Moreover, such a policy runs counter to core American values of nondiscrimination, fair play, and extending a warm welcome to foreign visitors and immigrants. Alternative solutions are available to address the risk of terror attacks which are both more effective and in line with Department of State and American values.

More Trump defiance via Twitter.

May booed

Theresa May has been booed on a visit to Cardiff, after protesters against Trump’s travel ban staged a demonstration outside Cardiff City Hall where she has been discussing Brexit with leaders of the devolved assemblies.

Updated

The advice to airport staff over how to handle nationals from the affected countries has been in flux over the weekend, writes Alice Ross.

Today that advice has changed again, an employee of an international airline working in Dubai told the Guardian.

Their team has now been told not to reject would-be passengers from the seven countries at check-in. Instead they should be referred to the security team, who will then try to get clearance for them from the US border guards on a case-by-case basis.

This applies to green card holders and holders of any visas.

There’s no advice for airport staff about how to handle travellers with dual nationalities. “We’re letting them go. I think it’s vague purposefully from our end to help our passengers,” said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A new group of 40 Syrian refugees arrived at Fiumicino airport, Rome, thanks to ‘humanitarian corridors’ promoted by the Community of Sant’Egidio, Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy and Waldesian Table. The new arrivals mostly come from Aleppo, Homs and Damascus and are the first in the new year.
A new group of 40 Syrian refugees arrived at Fiumicino airport, Rome, thanks to ‘humanitarian corridors’ promoted by the Community of Sant’Egidio, Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy and Waldesian Table. The new arrivals mostly come from Aleppo, Homs and Damascus and are the first in the new year. Photograph: TELENEWS/EPA

Summary

Here’s the latest summary ...

  • Donald Trump has defended the implementation of a travel ban preventing people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US. “If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the “bad” would rush into our country during that week,” he tweeted.
  • The ban has caused confusion, protests and a series of legal actions at entry ports across the US. A protest is planned in London on Monday evening. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he hopes to attend.
  • Downing Street has insisted that Trump’s state visit to the UK will go ahead despite widespread criticism of the invite including from several former ministers. A Downing Street source said: “To scrap the visit would undo everything following Mrs May’s visit. America is a huge and important ally we have to think long term.”
  • Chancellor Angela Merkel said the global fight against terrorism does not warrant putting groups of people under suspicion. She said the ban is “contrary to the basic principles of international refugee help and international cooperation.”
  • More than 1.25 million people have signed a petition calling for the visit to be cancelled. The Commons is expected to vote on whether to debate the visit.
  • The US embassy in Britain has insisted that it will not be offering visas to travellers from the seven countries, including those with dual nationality. This contradicts and assurance given to foreign secretary Boris Johnson, who is is due to update the Commons on US travel ban.
  • Labour has accused Theresa May of “appeasing” Trump by refusing to withdraw the state visit invitation. Shami Chakrabarti, shadow attorney general, said: “The world is in a very precarious situation at the moment and we will not make this world safer or fairer by appeasing bullies like Mr Trump.”
  • Thousands took to the streets in major cities and converged on airports to protest the executive orders. Protests blocked the main road outside the international terminal at Los Angeles international airport late on Sunday night.
  • Several people are reported still detained at LA airport, scene of legal challenges to the ban. An Iranian man with a valid visa is on his way back to the US after a federal court injunction stayed his removal back to Dubai from LA.
  • Indonesia, a Muslim nation not covered by the ban, said the policy could hurt the global fight against terror.
  • The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, said the travel orders were a “dark moment” in US history and contrary to American values.
  • Financial markets in Asia fell amid the confusion surrounding the orders and amid ongoing concern that Trump will pursue protectionist trade policies. Markets were set to fall in Europe on the opening.

Interesting timing from George Osborne ... he has just announced he will be a visiting fellow at the university institute set up by Senator John McCain, a vocal critic of Trump’s travel ban and his stance on torture.

While Theresa May is facing mounting pressure over the way she invited Trump for a state visit, Osborne has been singing McCain’s praises.

The McCain institute quotes Osborne saying: “I am very honoured to be named the McCain Institute’s first Kissinger Fellow. I have long admired Henry Kissinger and John McCain - and count myself fortunate to know both these extraordinary leaders. I look forward to using this opportunity to work with the McCain Institute to see how we best promote our western values and secure a stable world order in this time of change.”

The most senior figure in the Church of Scotland, the Right Rev Dr Russell Barr has said he is horrified with President Trump’s ban on refugees and travellers from seven Muslim majority countries, and implied the president is breaching Christian teachings, writes Severin Carrell.

Dr Barr, moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, said he supported the protests against Trump’s executive order across the US and globally. He supported a protest from the clerk of the US Presbyterian church’s general assembly, Rev J Herbert Nelson II.

“History is littered with instances in which human distrust, xenophobia, and discrimination has sewn hatred and conflict; our own desire for self-preservation taken at the exclusion of others,” Barr said, before calling on pressure to be applied to the UK government to listen to that message.

“Throughout history the bible has called Christians to live beyond hatred and fear, demonstrating a radical hospitality where the stranger finds welcome and refuge is provided for those who are oppressed.”

Britain has a long history of inviting controversial and embarrassing guests on state visits. Donald Trump is likely to fit in well with this tradition, writes Simon Tisdall.

Merkel denounces the travel ban

Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Chancellor Angela Merkel said the global fight against terrorism does not warrant putting groups of people under suspicion, Reuters reports.

She added Trump’s order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States violates the spirit of international cooperation.

“The necessary and decisive battle against terrorism does not in any way justify putting groups of certain people under general suspicion - in this case people of Muslim belief or of a certain origin,” Merkel told a news conference in Berlin.

“In my opinion, this act runs contrary to the basic principles of international refugee help and international cooperation,” she said.

“The chancellery and the foreign ministry will do everything they can, especially for those dual citizens affected, to clear up the legal ramifications and to emphatically represent their interests under the law.”

She added: “We’re clearly having close consultations with our European partners about this entire issue.”

Trump has said he has made a decision about the vacant ninth seat on the supreme court. In a tweet more like a trailer for a reality TV show, he kept the US in suspense by saying an announcement of the name will be made on Tuesday. Many have predicted that the row about the travel ban will ultimately have to be settled by the supreme court.

Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

The head of Goldman Sachs, many of whose alumni are among Trump’s most senior advisers, has told the company that he does not back the ban.

Speaking to his employee in voicemail Lloyd Blankfein said: “This is not a policy we support, and I would note that it has already been challenged in federal court, and some of the order has been enjoined at least temporarily.”

Blankfein said Goldman Sachs would work to minimise potential disruptions to employees and their families caused by Trump’s order, according to a transcript seen by Reuters.

Updated

Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, says her government is examining the situation and will be offering support to those affected by the travel ban, according to snap by Reuters.

Trump has defended the hasty introduction of the travel ban, claiming “bad dudes” would have rushed into the US if they had been given notice.

The EU’s foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, has spoken out against the travel ban saying it is “not the European way.” She added “In Europe we have a history that has taught us that every time we invest in divisions and walls you might end up in a prison ... we celebrate when walls are brought down and bridges are built.”

She said Europe will continue to host refugees regardless of religion.

Downing Street embroils Queen in the row

Downing Street now appears to be trying to partially pass the buck to Buckingham Palace.

A Downing Street statement said Theresa May was “very happy” to invite President Donald Trump for a state visit on behalf of the Queen.

Updated

Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
 Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

Trump’s chief spokesman Sean Spicer has defended the manner in which the White House rolled out the travel bans, AP reports.


Spicer said officials were concerned about the possibility that doing it in a more open fashion would “telegraph what you’re going to do” to people who might have rushed to airports to beat the ban.

In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday, Spicer also said officials’ highest priority was “to protect our own people” and said everybody in the government who needed to be consulted was consulted.

Spicer also says that Trump respects “people who are Muslim and peace-loving. But he also recognises that certain countries and certain areas of the world produce people who seek to do us harm.”

The spokesman, asked about delays at airports experienced by travellers with valid papers, said that 109 of some 325, 000 travellers “were slowed down” in their trips, and called that “a small price to pay” for protecting the American people.

Andrew Sparrow has a summary of a brief from the prime minister’s office:

  • Downing Street said Britons were not getting special treatment in relation to the US travel ban. He said the Foreign Office statement last night about how the new US rules affected dual nationals was not intended to mean that British dual nationals were getting preferential treatment. It was meant to be a clarification of how the rules affected dual nationals generally. He said he could not comment on the new statement issued by the American embassy this morning because he had not seen it. (See 12.01pm.)
  • The spokesman confirmed that Britain did not agree with President Trump’s move. “We disagree with these restrictions,” the spokesman said. He said that statement covered all aspects of the Trump travel ban.

We don’t agree with these restrictions, it is not the way we would do it. Where people’s rights, UK citizens’ rights, have been affected, we have set about getting a clarification to allow them to travel. As we pointed out last week, where we disagree with something we are happy to say we disagree with it.

  • The spokesman said that the decision to invite Trump to the UK for a state visit was first taken by the state visit committee that operates in the Foreign Office. Asked why Trump was being offered a state visit so soon, when previous presidents have had to wait months or years for an equivalent invitation, the spokesman said said:

There is no set timing that a president needs to be in office before they receive, or don’t receive, an invitation for a state visit. There is a process for state visits. Each year the government looks at the recommendations that are made by the committee for state visits, those recommendations are then put to Buckingham Palace, the palace then needs to agree to the visit, then, historically the invitation is extended on behalf of Her Majesty by the government, and that is the process that took place this time.

But the spokesman was unable to say who sits on the committee, or to explain why Trump received his invitation within a week of taking office.

(Very few observers will believe that Trump got the invitation just because an obscure committee came up with the idea. Ultimately these decisions are taken by Number 10, and May clearly offered Trump a visit quickly because he appears to want one desperatelyand she thought this would help to improve a relationship that has become particularly important in the light of Brexit.)

The spokesman also dismissed the prospect of the invitation being withdrawn.

The invitation has been extended and it has been accepted. The UK and the US have a very strong, close relationship and it is right that we continue to work together.

  • The spokesman said it was up to parliament to decide whether the petition saying Donald Trump should not be invited to the UK for a state visit should be debated. The petition has received more than 1m signatures, and petitions getting more than 100,000 signatures are normally considered for debate. But by convention the Commons does not normally debate matters relating to the Queen, and so it is likely that this may never get debated. Asked if the prime minister would like to see this debated in parliament, the spokesman said this was a matter for parliament.
  • The spokesman said the planned white paper on Brexit would be published as soon as possible, but he refused to say when.
  • May is travelling to Dublin after the joint ministerial committee meeting in Cardiff for talks with the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny. May will hold a press conference in Dublin in the early evening.

More here.

Sudan’s foreign minister, Ibrahim Ghadour, has criticised the US ban on travellers from his country, pointing out that it comes as the US and Sudan had just started cooperating on anti-terrorism.

Speaking to Bloomberg he said:

“We feel sorry that the decision was taken at a time we started cooperating and the sanctions were lifted.

“We are ready to continue for the benefit of our country and countries of the region as well as other countries who are effected by terrorism, which is now a transnational phenomenon,” he said.

“The Americans know that we’re not harbouring any opposition of any other country, including South Sudan. They know that the government has negotiated peace with rebels.”

In his third tweet of the day conceded that “there is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country”. But he appears in no mood to back down, by pointing out that the ban was part of his campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn Photograph: SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock

Speaking to Sky News, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said he hoped to attend this evening’s rally outside Downing Street against Donald Trump’s travel ban.

He said of the policy:

“It’s outrageous, it’s illegal as well as being immoral. I think we should stand up for the values we believe in which is you don’t discriminate...

“We should say candidly and firmly to friends as well as to those who we don’t agree with, human rights are important, the rights of people are important and where does all this lead to? If you’re saying people because they’re Muslims can’t travel to the United States, where does that lead to?

“We would condemn any other country in the world for doing this, I think we should do the same and say firmly to the United States president, I’m really sorry, we just cannot support or agree with you on this.”

Corbyn said he would try to attend the rally but would “certainly be supporting it”.

Donald Trump has claimed that the problems seen at US airports over the weekend were a result of computer outages and protesters rather than his travel ban.

Updated

The Guardian’s political editor, Anushka Asthana, says the government is adamant that the Foreign Office statement last night – that dual nationals will be allowed in as long as they are not travelling from one of the seven countries – is correct, despite the contradictory statement from the US embassy in London.

Updated

The insurance company AXA UK, says its travel policy holders will be entitled to claims if they have been hit by Trump’s travel ban. It said:

“In light of the sudden and unexpected decision by the Trump administration to block entry to the US for nationals from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen, AXA Insurance UK confirms that individuals who have been denied entry as a result of the executive order, will be able to claim on their policy. Although not technically covered, we view the current situation as unprecedented and unforeseen and as such we are extending the cover under our policies. For those intending to travel to, or return from, the United States of America we recommend allowing extra time due to protests currently taking place at a number of airports.”

Andrew Sparrow is just back form a lobby briefing where Downing Street could not explain contradictions in foreign advice about dual nationals and a new statement from the US embassy in London.

This morning the American embassy in London has put out a statement suggesting that Britons with dual nationality from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen will be affected by the US travel ban.

This appears to contradict the statement issued by the Foreign Office last night.

Asked about the statement from the American embassy, the prime minister’s spokesman said he could not comment because he had not seen it.

But this is what he did say about the issue.

  • Britons are not getting special treatment in relation to the travel ban, the spokesman said. He said the Foreign Office statement last night about how the new US rules affected dual nationals was not intended to mean that British dual nationals were getting preferential treatment. It was meant to be a clarification of how the rules affected dual nationals generally.
  • The spokesman confirmed that Britain did not agree with President Trump’s move. “We disagree with these restrictions,” the spokesman said. He said that statement covered all aspects of the Trump travel ban.

More here.

Suzanne Moore argues that a state visit would be worse than appeasing Trump.

The British state reserves its pomp and pageantry for those with shared values. To do this for Trump is not simply appeasing his, but legitimising his regime. This is not just embarrassing for the Queen but for every decent citizen. The vicar’s daughter may have lost her moral compass somewhere over the Atlantic, but this petition and the debate it prompts shows more than a million of us are clinging onto ours. It is not in the national interest to bend a knee to hate.

The UK Syrian community has condemned Trumps travel ban and warned that it could lead to a rise in hate crime in the UK. In a statement it said:

We fear that this executive order will have a reverse effect of fuelling hate and inciting terrorism in the UK and across the world, as we have already seen by the terrorist shooting at a Canadian mosque on 29 January which killed six worshippers and injured an additional eight. Such potential ramifications were stressed by US Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham who argued in a joint statement that Trump’s Muslim ban could ‘become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism’.

We are also concerned about the repercussions that Trump’s Muslim ban will have against Syrian refugees who fled the Syrian conflict under the worst imaginable conditions – arbitrary arrest, torture, constant bombardment, and relentless siege. This group deserves compassion and assistance from Western countries, not to mention that many have fled from the very terrorism which Trump has vowed to eradicate. We call upon the UK to echo the stand of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by welcoming Syrian refugees banned by the US into the UK ...

We call upon the government to offer a formal protest against Trump’s Muslim ban and to denounce it as discriminatory and counterproductive to the fight against terror.

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Ukip’s former leader Nigel Farage has backed Trump’s travel ban and called on the UK government to impose similar measures.

He accused Britain’s political establishment of hypocrisy by failing to speak out against a temporary ban on Iraqis entering the US imposed by President Obama in 2011.

Speaking to BBC News Farage said: “It is seems to me that when Obama does something that’s fine, but that somehow Trump in this category of being a bad guy.”

He added: “This was all part of his manifesto, and in fact in some ways he hasn’t gone as far as he said in some parts of the campaign.”

Asked if he wanted to see extreme vetting in the UK, Farage said: “I certainly do. I want us to be as careful as we can.”

“I’ve got moderate Muslim friends living in this country, who feel every time there is a terrorist attack that their quality of life is declining hugely. So anything we can do actually to stop these things happening actually makes it better for everybody.”

Updated

Martin Ford, the councillor who sparked a year long planning battle in 2008 over Donald Trump’s first Scottish golf course in Aberdeenshire, has signed the petition against the US president’s state visit, writes Severin Carrell.

Then a Liberal Democrat councillor who chaired the area’s neighbourhood committee, Ford used his casting vote to block Trump’s proposals for a £1bn golf resort because it ruined rare and environmentally protected dunes and breached the local plan. The committee’s rejection split the council. Scottish ministers, supported by the then first minister and local MSP Alex Salmond, ordered a public inquiry which pushed the plan through.

Now a Scottish Green party councillor, Ford said; “The petition makes the point that since, unbelievably, Mr Trump is now the President of the United States, the UK will have to deal with him and admit him to this country in that capacity. However, we don’t have to give him the honour of an official state visit and meeting the Queen, and we clearly shouldn’t.

“Mr Trump is a deeply unpleasant individual with abhorrent views. So while we can’t ignore Mr Trump, the UK must do nothing that suggests support or approval of his behaviour.”

The UK Parliament petitions website shows lukewarm support for the petition in the surrounding Commons constituency of Gordon, where Salmond is the MP, with only 1.35% support.

Updated

Iraq’s parliament has voted to “retaliate” against the travel ban, according to snap from Reuters.

Baghdad Invest says Iraq has banned US citizens from travelling to Iraq for 90 days.

Iraq has said that once USA lifts the travel ban on citizens of Iraq travelling to the United States of America, it would do the same.

Peter Walker has asked the Foreign Office to clarify the advice to dual nationals about travelling to the US.

The European Union is analysing Trump’s ban to see if it would affect Europeans, a spokesman for the bloc’s executive said, Reuters reports.

European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas told a news conference that the bloc was getting “conflicting input” on whether the ban would affect EU citizens with dual nationality from the countries affected.

Asked about Trump’s move, he said that the EU itself did not discriminate among people arriving on the grounds of race, nationality or religion.

US embassy in the UK suspends visa issuance to nationals and dual nationals

So much for that apparent commitment to Boris Johnson about dual nationals in the UK.

The US embassy in the UK has repeated that warning, made in Berlin, about visa issuance.

Per US Presidential Executive Order signed on January 27, 2017, visa issuance to aliens from the countries of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen has been suspended effective immediately until further notification.

If you are a national, or dual national, of one of these countries, please do not schedule a visa appointment or pay any visa fees at this time.

If you already have an appointment scheduled, please DO NOT ATTEND your appointment as we will not be able to proceed with your visa interview. Please note that certain travel for official governmental purposes, related to official business at or on behalf of designated international organizations, on behalf of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or by certain officials is not subject to this suspension.

The Embassy of the United States of America in London
The Embassy of the United States of America in London Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Former shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, now chair of the home affairs select committee, has backed calls for an emergency debate on Trump’s travel ban.

Updated

US embassy in Berlin suspends visa issuances to seven countries

The US embassy in Berlin has said that visa issuance had been suspended to nationals, or dual nationals, of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

In an update on its Facebook page, the embassy said:

“Per US Presidential Executive Order signed on January 27, 2017, visa issuance to aliens from the countries of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen has been suspended effective immediately until further notification.”

“If you are a national, or dual national, of one of these countries, please do not schedule a visa appointment or pay any visa fees at this time.”

Workers from companies such as Facebook and Google have no idea when they’ll next see their family, as startup founders say their companies are at risk, writes Olivia Solon in San Francisco

Congress should move to impeach Trump over this growing crisis, argues Trevor Timm.

No matter your political views, the fact that the White House is attempting to circumvent legal advice, install dubious appointees to incredible powerful national security positions and violate court orders is outrageous and despicable, so let’s be clear: Congress needs to quickly move towards impeachment if this is true.

In the US, a handful of powerful Catholic cardinals have spoken forcefully against Trump’s executive order, writes Stephanie Kirchgaessner.

Joe Tobin, the newly installed cardinal in Newark, New Jersey, even appeared to suggest that Donald Trump was a con man after criticising the proposed building of a border wall as “not rational” and “inhuman”.

On Twitter Tobin wrote: “A fearful nation talks about building walls and is vulnerable to con men. We must challenge the fear before we are led into darkness”.

Another cardinal, Blasé Cupich of Chicago, said the weekend had been a “dark moment in US history”. He said the implementation of Trump’s order to halt migrants and refugees had been “rushed, chaotic, cruel, and oblivious to the realities that will produce enduring security for the US”.

Cupich added: “The world is watching as we abandon our commitments to American values. These actions give aid and comfort to those who would destroy our way of life. They lower our estimation in the eyes of the many peoples who want to know America as a defender of human rights and religious liberty, not a nation that targets religious populations and then shuts its doors on them.”

But there was one notable voice of support for Trump. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, the leading conservative in the US Catholic hierarchy who was recently passed over for a promotion by Pope Francis, called on the University of Notre Dame to honour Trump with an honourary degree this spring.

In a statement on Friday, Chaput decried the intense opposition to Trump and hailed the Republican president’s opposition to abortion rights.

Jonathan Arkush
Jonathan Arkush Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/Getty Images

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has added its voice to growing international condemnation of the travel ban.

Jonathan Arkush, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: “Bans based on national origin are indiscriminate and unjust. They would be unlawful in UK law. While we all understand the need to properly check those who enter our countries, this needs to be balanced with compassion towards the plight of those fleeing for their lives.”

Arkush added: “This is a dismaying beginning to a new US Administration. Good government needs cool, rational judgments delivered professionally, not hasty policy-making on the hoof. All those who respect and admire the USA’s commitment to freedom will call on President Trump to review this misconceived executive order.”

Here’s video of protesters ralling in some of the United States’ largest airports in anger over president Trump’s travel ban. Demonstrations have taken place in several cities after the US president imposed a freeze on refugee admissions and banned travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Anger across America at Donald Trump’s travel ban – video report

Summary

Here’s a summary of how things currently stand.

  • Donald Trump’s plans to prevent people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US have caused confusion, protests and a series of legal actions at entry ports across the US.
  • Downing Street has insisted that Trump’s state visit to the UK will go ahead despite widespread criticism of the invite including from several former ministers. A Downing Street source said: “To scrap the visit would undo everything following Mrs May’s visit. America is a huge and important ally we have to think long term.”
  • More than a million people have signed a petition calling for the visit to be cancelled. The Commons is expected to vote on Tuesday on whether to debate the visit.
  • Foreign secretary Boris Johnson is due to update the Commons on US travel ban.
  • Labour has accused Theresa May of “appeasing” Trump by refusing to withdraw the state visit invitation. Shami Chakrabarti, shadow attorney general, said: “The world is in a very precarious situation at the moment and we will not make this world safer or fairer by appeasing bullies like Mr Trump.”
  • The White House has defended the policy as a “massive success” and Trump himself has denied it is a ban on Muslims.
  • Thousands took to the streets in major cities and converged on airports to protest the executive orders. Protests blocked the main road outside the international terminal at Los Angeles international airport late on Sunday night.
  • Several people are reported still detained at LA airport, scene of legal challenges to the ban. An Iranian man with a valid visa is on his way back to the US after a federal court injunction stayed his removal back to Dubai from LA.
  • Indonesia, a Muslim nation not covered by the ban, said the policy could hurt the global fight against terror.
  • The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, said the travel orders were a “dark moment” in US history and contrary to American values.
  • Financial markets in Asia fell amid the confusion surrounding the orders and amid ongoing concern that Trump will pursue protectionist trade policies. Markets were set to fall in Europe on the opening.

Adam Vaughan has more on that decision by Starbuck to hire 10,000 refugees.

Boris Johnson to make Commons statement on the travel ban

Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, will be making a statement in the Commons later about the US travel ban, he has told Sky News.

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Mexicans are musing openly about how to retaliate against Trump’s bullying, writes David Agren in Mexico City.

Mexico may lack the size, stature and economic might of its northern neighbour, but analysts say the country does have options, all of which should be under consideration due to the severity of the crisis.

“He ranted and raved during the campaign, but the guy has a knife to our throat now,” said Federico Estévez, political science professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. “But it’s not like Mexico has no leverage. It does.”

The Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has stated unequivocally that Mexico will not pay for a wall which could cost as much as $25bn, but analysts say price isn’t the issue.

“It’s a deal-breaker, but not because of the wall,” Estévez said. “It’s because of the public nature of the humiliation involved. What it really entails is sinking Nafta.”

Nafta opened up a Mexican economy that was once so closed that candy and consumer goods like Levi’s Jeans were smuggled across the frontier and sold as contraband. Mexico now sends 80% of its exports north and cross-border trade totals more than $500bn.

Trump could tank the deal in ways other than ripping it up. He could pursue an “America first” line on investment, making it untenable for Mexico to remain a signatory, or simply jawbone companies into avoiding Mexican investments – as he has done with carmakers.

Is this a Muslim ban? Alan Yuhas examines the order and its vagueness:

Tory MP James Cleverly tries to de-link government cosying up to Trump from Britain’s vote to leave the EU.

Well on the way to the next million ...

More than one million people sign petition against Trump's state visit

That petition has now topped the million signatory mark.

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The row over the travel ban should prompt Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to rethink his three-line whip to Labour MPs on triggering article 50, argues John Harris.

We all know the opposing arguments, and they are worth taking seriously: that even if the referendum result is speciously interpreted as consent for hard Brexit, it has to be respected; that many Labour MPs represent areas that voted leave and fear Ukip; that there are two byelections coming up in leave-voting seats, and that the party is in an unbelievably fragile position. But at the same time, I know what many people who fear the Trump/Brexit moment will say: that at a moment so freighted with historic significance, when the UK may be about to trade in an enduring alliance with Europe for a role as the ally of a truly terrifying US president, will it really be Labour MPs’ choice to back the most reckless course imaginable? We shall soon see.

Starbucks says it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, in response to Trump’s travel ban.

Howard Schultz, the coffee retailer’s chairman and CEO, said in a letter to employees that the hiring would apply to stores worldwide and the effort would start in the United States where the focus would be on hiring immigrants “who have served with US troops as interpreters and support personnel.”

It said:

We have a long history of hiring young people looking for opportunities and a pathway to a new life around the world. This is why we are doubling down on this commitment by working with our equity market employees as well as joint venture and licensed market partners in a concerted effort to welcome and seek opportunities for those fleeing war, violence, persecution and discrimination. There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business. And we will start this effort here in the US by making the initial focus of our hiring efforts on those individuals who have served with U.S. troops as interpreters and support personnel in the various countries where our military has asked for such support.

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband is to apply for an emergency Commons debate on Trump’s travel ban.

He is backed by Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi who has spoken out over the ban.

The BBC’s assistant political editor, Norman Smith, has been told that MPs will vote on whether to debate Trump’s state visit.

The petition has topped 990,000 signatories.

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Tim Farron
Tim Farron Photograph: Teri Pengilley for the Guardian

LibDem Leader Tim Farron is stepping up the pressure on Theresa May over her invitation to grant Trump a state visit to the UK.

In a statement he said: “The government is ignoring millions of ordinary British people and their revulsion that Donald Trump will receive the red carpet treatment.”

That petition against the visit is now very close to a million signatories.

Farron added:

“It is wrong for Theresa May to put The Queen in this position. People can see how desperate she is for a Brexit trade deal. But the Prime Minister needs to be aware how dangerous her game with President Trump is.

“Tony Blair decided in 2002 to hitch his cart to a president and say: “I’m with you whatever”. It sank his premiership, and poisoned his legacy. May risks exactly the same.”

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In one of his last media blogs for the Guardian, commentator Roy Greenslade attacks the “shamefully” pragmatic response of the much of the British press to the Trump’s travel ban.

Clearly, “British interests”, most obviously over trade because of Brexit, are the overriding concern for the pragmatists.

The Daily Mirror, at least, was having none of it: “The prime minister should inform the maverick US president that he is not welcome on a state visit, so no banquet with the Queen until he drops the grotesque bigotry.

“This crisis is a severe test of May’s pledge to be a ‘candid friend’ after the PM shamefully dodged, three times, criticising a policy that is light on evidence but heavy on prejudice.” Precisely. Principle counts more than pragmatism.

Imran Khan
Imran Khan Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images

Pakistan’s leading opposition politician, Imran Khan, has urged his country to ban Americans if Trump extends the travel ban to Pakistan, Voice of America reports.

Addressing a rally in the central Pakistani town of Sahiwal on Sunday, Khan denounced the ban as anti-Muslim and praised Iran for its retaliatory action of banning Americans from entering the Islamic Republic.

“I want to tell all my fellow Pakistanis today, I pray that Donald Trump really bans visas for us. And then if America tells us they are stopping visas for us we will also, like Iran, tell them we are going to stop visas for Americans.

Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party is the third major political force in the national parliament, and rules the country’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhaw province.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government has not yet commented about Trump’s ban on Muslim countries.

Officials in Islamabad are hoping for improvement in their usually uneasy relations with Washington under the Trump presidency.

Alistair Burt
Alistair Burt Photograph: James Drew Turner for the Guardian

Lady Warsi is the latest former Tory minister to speak out against the proposed Trump state visit to the UK.

Last night former foreign office minister, Alistair Burt, said the “optics” of President Trump visiting the UK are “very bad” and there should be a “joint decision” to delay the visit.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour, Burt said: “There would undoubtedly be serious demonstrations against President Trump. There is the uncomfortable situation of the ban, with UK nationals or dual nationals being caught up in it. And I would have thought both US officials and foreign office officials here and Number Ten are thinking “this is going to look really terrible”.”

“On the other hand, the invitation has been offered and if Trump does come here, he will be exposed to opinion in the UK. If he thought his first press conference and outing was rough, he ought to wait until he gets a full one. And there might be some advantage in that.

“My sense is, in short, I think this looks too uncomfortable and I wonder if they will find a diplomatic excuse to delay this, such as wanting the EU negotiations to go a little bit further down the line so that a trade conversation can be a little bit more structured. But at the moment, the idea of having a visit would seem very uncomfortable to both sides.”

“But I think it’s quite different then for the UK then to withdraw an invitation. My thinking would be that if I was the American officials I think they should help the UK to try and find a reason for why this visit should not go ahead in the short term. It should be a joint decision otherwise there will be some lasting damage each way, and it might be better to avoid that if we can.”

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a former minister for faith communities and former co-chair of the Conservative Party, has backed calls on the government to withdraw its state visit invitation to Trump.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Lady Warsi criticised the reluctance of ministers to criticise Trump over the ban.

She said: “What is worrying now is the silence that we are getting from government. And it is important that government come out and say this is a Muslim ban which they condemn.”

Warsi added: “We have to question whether, in Britain, this is something that Britain should be doing for a man who has no respect for women, disdain for minorities, little value for LGBT communities, no compassion for the vulnerable and whose policies are rooted in divisive rhetoric.”

She added: “Those who run and govern this country bowing down to a man who holds the views that he holds, values which are not the same as British values, I think is sending out a very wrong signal.”

Warsi said that politics is facing a “crossroads” following Mr Trump’s election. She said:

“If we want to continue to be a country that supports liberal, progressive values in which all have equal worth and equal value in our society, then we have to be clear that we voice that view and that opinion, so that people in this country know that whatever crazy things the President of the United States may be doing, it is not what we believe and not what we support ...

“We need to call it what it is and it is a Muslim ban ... it is a ban on people from majority Muslim countries, and we have exempted people who aren’t Muslim, so make of that what you want.

Frank Gaffney
Frank Gaffney Photograph: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images

Frank Gaffney, a former assistant secretary of defence to President Regan, defended Trump’s travel ban and said it should go further.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Gaffney, now the president of the national security thinktank the Center for Security Policy, said: “I’m not aware of any indication that he [Trump] is intent on backing down, and I don’t think he should. I believe that the motivation for the action that he has taken are directly tied to the national security of the United States and the public safety of the American people.”

Gaffney added:

“It begins a course correction on a policy approach that has been deeply flawed and increasingly problematic, namely of being indifferent to the presence in our midst of those who adhere to totalitarian, supremacist programme they call Sharia – a fundamentally an anti-constitutional and jihadist project. We don’t need to import more of them and I think that is what Donald Trump has concluded as well.

“One has to be daft to ignore claims by the Islamic State that it is going to bring people into this country, as I believe they have done in Europe already, who are jihadists. What Donald Trump is do, quite sensibly, is to make that harder.”

Gaffney urged Trump to sign another executive order to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as “the terrorist organisation that is”.

He also said travellers from Saudi Arabia should be added to the list of those banned from travelling to the US. “I’m not quite sure why you wouldn’t include them, because not only were they deeply involved in the 9/11 attacks, but the government of Saudi Arabia has consistently pursued a jihadist policy external to the Kingdom. They are deeply problematic nation.”

Asked about criticism of the travel ban by Republican Senators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Gaffeny said: “they haven’t a clue what they are talking about.” He said both had embraced members of the Muslim Brotherhood and couldn’t tell who were jihadists.

Richard Barrett, a former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, criticised Trump’s travel ban as playing into the hands of Islamic State terrorists.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he said: “The narrative of the Islamic State is precisely what Mr Trump appears to be confirming – that Americans are against people of Muslim faith, they particularly discriminate against them in favour of other people. So it is this them or us type picture that the Islamic State promotes.”

Barret, who is now director of the Global Strategy Network, dismissed the ban as “a case of alternative counter terrorism policy”.

He added: “The great majority of attacks in the United States since 9/11 and even before that have been conducted by US citizens - in fact well over 80%.”

Barrett suggested the ban was a knee jerk response to terrorism that would not work. He said: “We have got to remember what we are fighting for as well as what we are fighting against. And what we are fighting for is these universal freedoms that we all promote.”

“It is a huge problem and terrorism really captures the imagination and therefore demands actions by politicians even though it may not be a particularly significant threat.”

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May accused of 'appeasing Trump'

Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Labour has accused Theresa May of “appeasement” towards Donald Trump after Downing Street again rejected a petition calling for the cancellation of the president’s state visit to Britain.

A Downing Street source dismissed agreeing to the petition, which has now attracted almost a million signatures, as a “populist gesture”.

The BBC quoted the source saying: “The invitation has been issued and accepted. To scrap the visit would undo everything following Mrs May’s visit. America is a huge and important ally we have to think long term.”

Shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti urged the prime minister to think again. “I’m afraid that sounds like appeasement to me,” she told BBC Breakfast after being read the statement from Downing Street.

She added: “The world is in a very precarious situation at the moment and we will not make this world safer or fairer by appeasing bullies like Mr Trump.”

Chakrabarti said Trump’s travel ban was counter-productive. She said: “It will make the world a less safe place and we got to do everything we can to stand up to this bully in the White House. That special relationship has to be based on shared values and so far what I have seen from Mr Trump is misogyny, racism, ill-treatment of refugees, reinstatement of torture and just a general pedalling of hate.”

She added: “I would urge the prime minister to think again. A state visit is premature we should not be rewarding human rights abuses by rolling out the red carpet in this country.

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SUMMARY

  • Donald Trump’s plans to prevent people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US have caused confusion, protests and a series of legal actions at entry ports across the US.
  • The White House has defended the policy as a “massive success” and Trump himself has denied it is a ban on Muslims.
  • Thousands took to the streets in major cities and converged on airports to protest the executive orders. Protests blocked the main road outside the international terminal at Los Angeles international airport late on Sunday night.
  • Several people are reported still detained at LA airport, scene of legal challenges to the ban. An Iranian man with a valid visa is on his way back to the US after a federal court injunction stayed his removal back to Dubai from LA.
  • Indonesia, a Muslim nation not covered by the ban, said the policy could hurt the global fight against terror.
  • The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, said the travel orders were a “dark moment” in US history and contrary to American values.
  • Financial markets in Asia fell amid the confusion surrounding the orders and amid ongoing concern that Trump will pursue protectionist trade policies. Markets were set to fall in Europe on the opening.

One final picture from Dhanpaul Narine, a reader who was at the protests at JFK airport in New York. He is a Guyanese-American living in New York and was at the protests because he believes Caribbean nations could be next to face some kind of travel bans and wanted to show solidarity. Here he is holding the Guyana flag at JFK.

Dhanpaul Narine with the Guyana flag at JFK on Sunday 29 January 2017.
Dhanpaul Narine with the Guyana flag at JFK on Sunday 29 January 2017. Photograph: Dhanpaul Narine

Thanks for reading and thanks for all your pictures and emails.

One of the biggest US protests has been at Los Angeles international airport – LAX in its short code – where thousands of people have gathered.

It’s 10.40pm there and the LA Times reports that protesters have blocked the main road outside the Tom Bradley international terminal, chanting “let them in”.

There also appear to be large crowds still inside the terminal buildings.

LAX is one of the biggest entry points in the US and has been the focus of legal efforts to overturn the ban.

The ACLU local branch successfully secured the release of three people: Khanon Mahindokht Azad, a 72-year-old Iranian woman visiting her childlren in the US; Gishh Alsaeedi, an 82-year-old iraqi woman also visiting her family; and Mustafa Abdul Wahed, a Syrian born oil industyr worker with a Saudi passport.

But lawyers said it was still difficult to get legal help for others being held at airports.

Read the full court submission here.

British actors have attacked the Trump proposals as stars from the world of film and television gathered in Los Angeles for the Screen Actors Guild awards.

Dev Patel, who was nominated for best supporting actor in Lion, said the travel ban was “horrible” and “divisive”.

Dev Patel at the Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles.
Dev Patel at the Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for TNT

Speaking on the red carpet, Patel said:

I just flew in from India a day ago. When I heard the news it was utterly devastating.

“The first thing that came into my head was the children who arrive on these shores with hope in their hearts. It’s horrible. It’s divisive. I hope something changes and something can be done because it really is terrible.

Riz Ahmed, star of Rogue One, said people should “make their voices heard” and revealed he knew people hit by the US travel ban.

Protests have taken place across the US on Sunday night.

Here is an estimate of the numbers involved in the protests at the main locations (thanks to Reuters and AP):

  • Manhattan – 10,000
  • Washington DC – 8,000 (plus about 200 at Dulles airport)
  • Copley Square, Boston – 10,000
  • LA international airport – 4,000
  • Detroit Metropolitan airport – 3,000
  • O’Hare international, Chicago – hundreds (including 150 pro bono lawyers)
  • Houston downtown – 500
  • Indianapolis international airport – 600
  • Seattle – 3,000
  • Dallas-Fort Worth international airport – 800
People march in support of immigrants and refugees in Seattle, Washington on Sunday.
People march in support of immigrants and refugees in Seattle, Washington on Sunday. Photograph: Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images

The financial markets have been in subdued mood today amid concerns about the Trump travel ban.

  • Japan’s Nikkei widened losses to 0.7% as demand for the safe-haven yen weighed on exporters.
  • Australian shares on the ASX200 index tumbled more than 1%, while New Zealand pulled back 0.6%.
  • European markets are set to slip when trading opens later this morning, according to online trading platform IG.
A pedestrian walks in front of an electric quotation board flashing stock prices on the Nikkei index in Tokyo.
A pedestrian walks in front of an electric quotation board flashing stock prices on the Nikkei index in Tokyo. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC in Sydney, said the travel ban added to concerns about the Trump administration’s policy settings. The thinking is that if carries through with building the border wall and banning Muslims from the US, he might also push through his promised 45% tariffs on Chinese imports. Most experts agree that would be a devastating blow for the world’s economy.

Spooner said:

The new US immigration policy contributes to background concerns about the potential for escalating tensions and scope for retaliation on travel and trade policy. However, from a market perspective, the policy is not at this stage likely to have any material financial or commercial impact as it currently stands.

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Attack on Quebec mosque a 'terror attack', says Justin Trudeau

The shooting at the Quebec City mosque which reportedly killed five people was a “terrorist attack on Muslims”, said Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

In a statement he said: “We condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a centre of worship and refuge.”

Quebec premier Philippe Couillard also called the killings a “terrorist act”, tweeting that they were an act of “barbaric violence”.

More from our readers. Richard Rand has sent me these pictures from Albuquerque airport in New Mexico.

Protests at Albuquerque airport.
Protests at Albuquerque airport. Photograph: Richard Rand
Protests at Albuquerque airport.
Protests at Albuquerque airport. Photograph: Richard Rand

The travel orders are causing headaches for the world’s airlines.

  • Emirates said earlier that it has changed pilot and flight attendant rosters on flights to the US following the signing of the order so that its crew did not become embroiled in the immigration problems. It had “made the necessary adjustments to our crewing, to comply with the latest requirements,”, an Emirates spokeswoman told Reuters.
  • Japan Airlines said on Monday it has begun screening passengers from the seven Muslim-majority countries affected by the travel ban before their departure for the US.
  • Etihad Airways, which is based in Abu Dhabi, said the airline had “taken steps to ensure there will be no issues for flights departing over the coming weeks”.
  • Nicoley Baublies, from the German cabin crew union UFO, said the move meant uncertainty for Lufthansa because it had “always ensured it has very diverse crews, with staff of different nationalities and that means that we are for the first time in decades having to look at where people come from”. A spokesman for Lufthansa said on Sunday it was too early to comment.

Thanks to Reuters for those updates.

Koch brothers signal opposition to Muslim ban and border tax

The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have signalled their opposition to two of Donald Trump’s most controversial policies.

The brothers’ campaign group Americans for Prosperity have launched a bid to sink the Trump border tax plan which aims to raise millions from import duty to pay for a wall along the Mexican border.

On Sunday the group also challenged Trump’s intention to stop the movement of people from countries with large Muslim populations from traveling to the United States.

“The travel ban is the wrong approach and will likely be counterproductive,” said an official of the Koch networ, which refused to endorse Trump during his presidential campaign.

In Australia, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull refused to criticise the Trump administration’s immigration policies when he was quizzed on the issue on Monday.

Australia is hoping to resettle detained asylum seekers from its camps on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus Island to the US. Australia will take refugees from Costa Rica in exchange.

Read our full story here:

Democrat senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have called for an immediate investigation by the department for homeland security’s inspector general into the agency’s “potentially illegal implementation of President Trump’s executive order”. They called the orders “rushed and poorly drafted”.

The chaotic execution of this [Executive Order] … raises serious concerns in regard to whether taxpayer dollars were efficiently and effectively spent, rather than wasted on unwarranted and unjust detentions of lawful permanent residents (LPRs) and others who posed no security threat, and who had already been authorized by the United States Government to enter our country. We are deeply concerned by [Customs and Border Protection’s] failure to respond to time-sensitive Congressional oversight inquiries and allegations that the agency refused to permit attorneys to meet with detained LPRs at O’Hare and other airports across the country.

Democrat senator Tammy Duckworth.
Democrat senator Tammy Duckworth. Photograph: Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

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Hollywood has voiced its disapproval of the Trump orders as film and television industry figures gathered for the Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles.

Celebrities get political with pro-immigration messages at SAG awards

Mahershala Ali, who won the award for best supporting actor for his role in Moonlight, gave an emotional speech about acceptance and being a Muslim, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus called the ban “un-American”.

The actors Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg, who protested about the treatment of Muslims, with Meryl Streep at the SAG awards in Los Angeles.
The actors Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg, who protested about the treatment of Muslims, with Meryl Streep at the SAG awards in Los Angeles. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

My colleague in New York, Benjamin Lee, has just filed a report on the awards. You can read it here:

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The Indonesian foreign ministry has echoed comments by John McCain earlier that the Trump ban could damage the global fight against terror.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, is not one of the seven Muslim countries affected by Trump’s order. But ministry spokesman Armanatha Nasir said on Monday that Indonesia “deeply regrets” the decision and believes it will have a “negative impact on global efforts to fight terrorism” and the handling of refugees.

It is wrong to associate radicalism and terrorism with a particular religion. Efforts to combat terrorism must be carried out by promoting international cooperation, including in addressing the root causes of terrorism.

Michael Lynch, a reader, has just landed in O’Hare Chicago airport from Heathrow and reports a large crowd. Perhaps inspired by the archbishop’s comments ...

Anti-Trump protests at O’Hare Chicago, courtesy of Guardian reader Michael Lynch.
Anti-Trump protests at O’Hare Chicago, courtesy of Guardian reader Michael Lynch. Photograph: Michael Lynch

Lots of pictures from Chicago on Twitter as well.

Five reportedly killed in Quebec mosque shooting

An attack on a mosque in Quebec City in Canada has reportedly left five people dead.

Details are only just beginning to emerge but read the story we have just posted on the site here:

More pictures and videos from airport protests around the US – LA, Atlanta, San Diego and Philadelphia.

A dark moment in US history, says Archbishop of Chicago

Very strong statement condemning the orders from the Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, who says it is a “dark moment” contrary to American values. The orders are “cruel and chaotic”, he says.

Archbishop Blase Cupich
Archbishop Blase Cupich Photograph: Chris Walker/AP

This weekend proved to be a dark moment in US history. The executive order to turn away refugees and to close our nation to those, particularly Muslims, fleeing violence, oppression and persecution is contrary to both Catholic and American values. Have we not repeated the disastrous decisions of those in the past who turned away other people fleeing violence, leaving certain ethnicities and religions marginalized and excluded? We Catholics know that history well, for, like others, we have been on the other side of such decisions.

These actions impose a sweeping and immediate halt on migrants and refugees from several countries, people who are suffering, fleeing for their lives. Their design and implementation have been rushed, chaotic, cruel and oblivious to the realities that will produce enduring security for the United States. They have left people holding valid visas and other proper documents detained in our airports, sent back to the places some were fleeing or not allowed to board planes headed here. Only at the eleventh hour did a federal judge intervene to suspend this unjust action.

Read the full statement here.

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Despite that administration comment, it’s fair to say there has been a lot of confusion about the scope of the orders. There have been numerous legal challenges – one is detailed here – and homeland secretary John Kelly was forced to issue a statement clarifying that green card holders were exempt from the ban after reports that some were prevented from getting into the US.

His officials have issued a fact sheet to help us through the details.

Main points are here:

  • For the next 90 days, nearly all travelers, except US citizens, traveling from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen will be temporarily suspended from entry to the US. In that time a proper review and establishment of standards to prevent terrorist or criminal infiltration by foreign nationals will be carried out.
  • “Lawful permanent residents” of the US traveling on a valid I-551 (green cards) will be allowed to enter the US.
  • In the first 30 days, DHS will perform a global country-by-country review of the information each country provides when their citizens apply for a US visa or immigration benefit. Countries will then have 60 days to comply with any requests from the US government to update or improve the quality of the information they provide.
  • The countrys refugee admissions program will be temporarily suspended for the next 120 days while DHS and interagency partners review screening procedures to ensure refugees admitted in the future do not pose a security risk.

Immigration orders a 'massive success', says official

An administration official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, has called the orders a “massive success story”.

The official was reported as saying:

Nothing has changed. All three of President Trump’s executive orders remain in full effect and all three of President Trump’s executive orders are being enforced by the departments of state, homeland security, justice and all other relative agencies across the federal government.
So it really is a massive success story in terms of implementation on every single level.

Thanks for the contributions so far. Here is a picture from Gareth Rogers showing the protest at Detroit airport.

Anti-Trump protests at Detroit airport on 29 January 2017.
Anti-Trump protests at Detroit airport on 29 January 2017. Photograph: Gareth Rogers

This was sent to my colleague @ambiej via Twitter showing the scene at Bradley international airport near Hartford, Connecticut.

Anti-Trump protests at Bradley airport, Connecticut on 29 January 2017.
Anti-Trump protests at Bradley airport, Connecticut on 29 January 2017. Photograph: Twitter

But not everyone reading the blog is of one mind. An email from a reader signing off as Georgina Heinrich says that “most working people” in the US welcome the crackdown and that it was “about time the US looked after its own border control”. Plenty to debate there.

Gregg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs head coach and consistent Trump critic, has called the immigration order “like the Keystone Kops”.

Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich Photograph: Darren Abate/AP

As you know, I have lots of thoughts about what we’ve done to ourselves as country and what we’ve allowed to happen. But we’ll see where this goes. Obviously the roll-out today was Keystone Kops-like by any measure with objectivity. Whether you want to say it’s good or bad is irrelevant. But it was keystone Kops and that’s scary.

Judge says Iranian barred from entry to US must be returned

An Iranian man who holds a US visa who was barred entry to LA airport in the wake of the Trump ban has won a court injunction “staying his removal from the US, and ordering his release from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security”.

Ali Khoshbakhti Vayeghan brought the case at the US district court in California after being sent back to Dubai. From there he was to be removed to Iran.

But the federal judge Dolly Gee found that the ban “violates the Establishment Clause, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and his rights to Equal Protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution”.

It ordered the the homeland department to allow him back into the US.

Read the full ruling here.

Saudis support Syria safe zones, says White House

Trump has repeatedly sugested that safe havens for people displaced by conflict in Syria and Yemen is the way to contain the Middle East refugee crisis.

The White House said on Sunday that King Salman of Saudi Arabia has agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen after he spoke to the president, according to Associated Press.

The president “requested and the King agreed” to support the safe zones “as well as supporting other ideas to help the many refugees who are displaced by the ongoing conflicts”, AP reported the White House as saying.

Here’s a picture of Trump in the act of speaking to King Salman from the Oval Office on Sunday.
Here’s a picture of Trump in the act of speaking to King Salman from the Oval Office on Sunday. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

The pair also reportedly discussed what the White House described as an invitation from Salman for Trump to lead “a Middle East effort to defeat terrorism” and help build “a new future, economically and socially, for the people of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the region.”

Trump has criticised Arab nations for failing to do enough to contain the threat of Islamic State.

John Kasich, Ohio governor and one of the dozen or more candidates beaten by Trump to the Republican nomination, has called the order “ham-handed” and questioned why White House officials had allowed it to be issued.

He told the Washington Post:

In probably many Arab capitals today, people are like, ‘What is America doing?’
Frankly, when I look at this, I think he was ill-served by his staff. If I were the president, I’d be very upset with the staff — that they didn’t say, ‘Hey, wait hold on a second.’ Because that’s what executives do. They have people around them that help them to understand, ‘Hey, your message is fine, but here is what’s going to come from it.’

Thanks Amber. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be taking you through the next few hours of news and reaction surrounding the Trump immigration order.

Thanks for all the reader contributions so far at @ambiej You can also send them now to me – @MartinFarrer – or on my email at martin.farrer@theguardian.com

First up, our US west coast video producer, Adithya Sambamurthy has been at San Francisco airport where protesters have reportedly blocked one of the departure gates, amid chants of “no ban, no wall” and “let them in”.

Protestors at San Francisco airport.
Protestors at San Francisco airport on Sunday. Photograph: Adithya Sambamurthy/Guardian

Looks like there are a lot of folks at the #sfoprotest. I especially like the “eat hummus” banner.

The day so far

People participate in a protest against President Donald Trump’s travel ban in New York City.
People participate in a protest against President Donald Trump’s travel ban in New York City. Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Reuters
  • Thousands of people have turned up at rallies across the country to protest Donald Trump’s travel executive order. Huge crowds, including Chelsea Clinton, protested in Battery Park in New York City. Thousands turned out at Boston’s Copley Square. In DC, protesters chanted “shame” outside the White House. Hundreds are still protesting at LAX Airport in Los Angeles.
  • Protests have also taken place in dozens of smaller cities and towns, including Rochester, NY, at Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport, Dulles Airport in Virginia, Albuquerque, NM and Pittsburgh, PA.
  • High-profile Republicans, including Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have criticized the executive order, calling for it to be immediately changed.
  • Donald Trump called the pair “sadly weak on immigration” on Twitter after their public criticisms. Trump also released a statement declaring that his order is “not a Muslim ban” and “not about religion”, although all seven countries on the banned list are Muslim-majority.
  • Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that green-card holders will be allowed entry into the country.
  • People stranded by the ban have told stories of families and relationships being kept apart (often after years of waiting for visas to be approved) and job and school opportunities missed. Iranians stranded by US ban tell of jobs at risk and families in disarray.

Homeland Secretary says ban doesn't apply to green-card holders

US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced that green-card holders from the seven Muslim-majority countries affected by Trump’s executive order travel ban will be allowed to enter the country.

He said in a statement:

In applying the provisions of the president’s executive order, I hereby deem the entry of lawful permanent residents to be in the national interest.

Accordingly, absent the receipt of significant derogatory information indicating a serious threat to public safety and welfare, lawful permanent resident status will be a dispositive factor in our case-by-case determinations.

This in from Associated Press, Canada will offer temporary residency permits to any trapped travelers:

Canada’s immigration minister says the country will offer temporary residency permits to travelers who become stranded here by President Donald Trump’s order banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

Ahmed Hussen is a Somali refugee who was recently named Canada’s new immigration minister. He said Sunday no one is currently stranded at the country’s airports by the ban.

Republican congressman Justin Amash from Michigan says in a Facebook post it is “not lawful” to ban immigrants based on their nationality or place of birth.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman demanded in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security and Customs that they “describe specific steps they are taking to ensure compliance” with the Brooklyn federal court’s injunction on Trump’s executive order.

“My office is receiving alarming reports that DHS and CBP are not complying with the federal injunction and restraining order and are instead planning to remove from the United States individuals specifically protected by the terms of the federal court order”, said Schneiderman.

From photographer Jasper Rischen at Los Angeles’ LAX Airport:

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From a Guardian reader in Bloomington, IN, who noticed a cheeky Donald Trump and Theresa May poster.

From a reader in DC:

From a reader in Pittsburgh:

Guardian reporter Sabrina Siddiqui at the White House rally in DC on Sunday against Trump’s travel ban:

Heidi Obermeyer at the DC march against Trump’s executive order.
Heidi Obermeyer at the DC march against Trump’s executive order. Photograph: Sabrina Siddiqui

Afnan Mossaad, a native of Texas whose parents are from Egypt, said she was in disbelief not just as a Muslim but as an American.
“This is not America. These are not the American values that we all know and love”, she said.
“It’s time that we speak up. We can’t let him redefine America,” she added of Trump.
“You’ve got to resist. When there’s injustice, you’ve got to stand up for what’s right. This is democracy.”
Heidi Obermeyer, a Colorado native working in DC, said her grandfather had fled Nazi persecution in Germany and went on to live the American Dream.
“I think that it’s really important that the United States continue to be about standing up for freedom and opportunity for people around the world who are being persecuted,” she said.
Obermeyer said felt compelled to show her support for the protest in order “to send a message that America is a welcoming place even if the current administration isn’t.”
Dominick Pugliese, a history teacher at a local high school, directed his message not at Trump but at Paul Ryan.
“I know that he knows better than this,” Pugliese said of the House speaker, who backed Trump’s executive order on Friday.
“People like [Steve] Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, the horsemen and horsewomen of the apocalypse, that’s one thing,” he said.
“Paul Ryan knows America’s values and is not only being silent, but supporting this. It’s horrible.”
Heather Mcilhany said Trump’s ban was “ignorant and counterproductive.”
“We have to stand up before someone comes for us,” she said. “Other than Native Americans, there’s none of us who did not come here as immigrants.”

Interesting article by David French in National Review attempting to break down Trump’s executive order by noting that while the ban on green card holders is “madness”, most of Trump’s proposals are far more moderate than originally promised - and not that different from Obama’s refugee policies:

So, what did Trump do? Did he implement his promised Muslim ban? No, far from it. He backed down dramatically from his campaign promises and instead signed an executive order dominated mainly by moderate refugee restrictions and temporary provisions aimed directly at limiting immigration from jihadist conflict zones.

... While the Syrian Civil War was raging, ISIS was rising, and refugees were swamping Syria’s neighbors and surging into Europe, the Obama administration let in less than a trickle of refugees. Only in the closing days of his administration did President Obama reverse course — in numbers insufficient to make a dent in the overall crisis, by the way — and now the Democrats have the audacity to tweet out pictures of bleeding Syrian children?

Read the rest here.

From deputy news editor Paul Owen at New York City’s rally on Sunday in Battery Park:

Fauzia Khanani at New York City’s rally against Trump’s executive order.
Fauzia Khanani at New York City’s rally against Trump’s executive order. Photograph: Paul Owen

Fauzia Khanani said her family had come from Uganda as refugees to Canada and then moved to the US when she was one year old.

She said she was protesting against the travel ban in New York’s Battery Park - within sight of the Statue of Liberty - because “I’m a Muslim, I’m a product of refugees, I’m a naturalised citizen. I’m appalled and scared and angry and I’m sad about what’s happening and the people that support it but when I come to a place like this,”she said of the protest, “it gives me hope”.

Debbie Meisenzahl at the New York City rally against Trump’s executive order banning refugees.
Debbie Meisenzahl at the New York City rally against Trump’s executive order banning refugees. Photograph: Paul Owen


Debbie Meisenzahl said she was at the protest in lower Manhattan “to stand up for my fellow New Yorkers against... I want to say a bad word right now. BS - I’ll say the short version.”

She said that Trump’s policy was disproportionate when there were “just a few bad apples”.

“That’s not what America stands for,” she said. “We’re all immigrants or descended from immigrants. Asked about the Statue of Liberty, whose image she was displaying on a poster, she said: “We stand with her.”

Meisenzahl said a Yemeni man had recently helped her and her father when he had to move out of his building and said of Trump’s travel ban on seven countries including Yemen: “It’s such a travesty.”

Irina Teveleva, who was carrying a sign that said “Our New York is immigrant New York”, said she had moved from Moscow to America and was now a student at Columbia University.

She said: “All the opportunities I’ve had in this country, I feel really lucky and grateful. I want to stand up for other immigrants.”

Updated

Corker calls Trump's executive order 'poorly implemented'

The chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Senator Bob Corker from Tennessee, criticized Trump’s executive order on immigration calling it “poorly implemented” and said it should be “immediately” reviewed:

“We all share a desire to protect the American people, but this executive order has been poorly implemented, especially with respect to green card holders,” Corker said, according to USA Today.

“The administration should immediately make appropriate revisions, and it is my hope that following a thorough review and implementation of security enhancements that many of these programs will be improved and reinstated” said Corker.

Protesters carry signs and chant in Lafayette Park near the White House during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive orde.
Protesters carry signs and chant in Lafayette Park near the White House during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

Guardian reporter Lauren Gambino from DC’s rally against Trump’s travel ban:

The march descended on the Capitol chanting, “do your job” at the mostly absent Congress. (It’s a Sunday, after all!).

Jennifer Rodriguez, the daughter of Cuban refugees, marched with them, wearing a pink “pussyhat” from last weekend’s march.

“I can’t imagine what would have happened if President Kennedy at that time had decided to do what Trump is doing— to just send them back,” she said, her voice swelling with emotion. “They would have been killed.”

Rodriguez said she was appalled by the actions the new administration has taken and vowed to continue to protest Trump and his agenda.

“I’ll be here every weekend if that’s what it takes,” she said as the crowd converged on the Capitol lawn.

Like Rodriguez, several people had signs that said “child of refugees” and “nation of immigrants. Many carried signs with the words from the Statue of Liberty that have for generations represented America’s welcoming of immigrants: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

For those who wondered if the Women’s March on Washington would translate into a movement, the spontaneous protest on Sunday, which attracted hundreds if not thousands of people, was a positive sign.

Anjali Singh, who heard about the protest on Facebook last night and came with her friends, said she felt empowered by the rally and already plans to attend future ones. But still, she couldn’t help but to wonder if it was making a difference.

“I want to see action, I want to see policy changes,” she said.

Her friend, Zulakha Iqbal said she felt it was important to show up and make her voice heard.

“I’ll be protesting until the next election cycle - until at least 2018,” Iqbal said. “That’s the whole point, keeping up the momentum.”

After about twenty minutes of chanting in front of the Capitol, the protestors began to disperse for the evening.

Congress representatives are fighting against Border and Customs Patrol officials at Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia, after dozens of people reportedly remain detained despite last night’s court order putting a stay on Trump’s executive order.

Representative Don Beyer is at the airport, with Congress colleagues Gerry Connolly and Jamie Raskin.

From a Huffington Post reporter, who tweeted that he was told 16 people were detained off one flight from Turkey.

Footage from the airport shows Congressman Connelly speaking with border control, and when Dulles Airport Police is mentioned, he replied: “And I want them to know I’m going to be a pain in the ass”.

A veteran-led rally will be held at 7pm at the Dulles airport tonight. From the rally’s press release:

Army Captain Matt Zeller, co-founder of No One Left Behind, which resettles translators and others who helped American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, stated that his organization has received over 500 messages from Afghans and Iraqis currently trapped abroad, hunted by the Taliban and ISIS for supporting our war effort, desperate to get to safety, and terrified America will slam the door closed.

“Without Janis, my translator, I would not be alive today,” said Captain Zeller. “I would have been killed by two Taliban fighters in the hills of Afghanistan and not fighting for interpreters’ rights today. President Trump’s order permanently harms our national security. It pains me to think how many U.S. soldiers will now die in future wars because we couldn’t recruit the local support that is often the difference between life and death.”

Updated

Trump slams McCain and Graham: 'sadly weak on immigration'

Continuing on Trump, he’s now taken to Twitter to slam Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Republicans who criticized his executive order as more likely to help Isis than stop terrorists.

Just in contrast to Donald Trump’s claim that his travel ban executive order is “not a Muslim ban”, my colleague Ben Jacobs reminded us of Trump’s statement from December, 2015:

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on. According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. Most recently, a poll from the Center for Security Policy released data showing “25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad” and 51% of those polled, “agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah.” Shariah authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won’t convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans, especially women.

Mr. Trump stated, “Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life. If I win the election for President, we are going to Make America Great Again.

Donald Trump: 'this is not a Muslim ban'

A statement just in from Donald Trump, saying that his executive order is “not about religion.”

The president says his order it is “not a Muslim ban” but instead “similar” to former president Obama’s policy on refugees from Iraq.

This is the full statement:

America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border. America has always been the land of the free and home of the brave. We will keep it free and keep it safe, as the media knows, but refuses to say. My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months. The seven countries named in the Executive Order are the same countries previously identified by the Obama administration as sources of terror.

To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting. This is not about religion - this is about terror and keeping our country safe. There are over 40 different countries worldwide that are majority Muslim that are not affected by this order. We will again be issuing visas to all countries once we are sure we have reviewed and implemented the most secure policies over the next 90 days. I have tremendous feeling for the people involved in this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria. My first priority will always be to protect and serve our country, but as president I will find ways to help all those who are suffering.

At least 4 people still detained at JFK despite legal decision

Thousands gathered at Terminal Four at JFK Airport to protest the detention of several travelers who had valid visas when embarking upon their flights.
Thousands gathered at Terminal Four at JFK Airport to protest the detention of several travelers who had valid visas when embarking upon their flights. Photograph: Press vi/REX/Shutterstock

Guardian reporter Edward Helmore from JFK airport in New York City:

Around three pm, Iranian Iman Alknfushe‎, a US permanent legal resident who had been held since early Saturday, was released to her family. Her release followed that of Iranian student Bahide Rasekhikollkdragh earlier in the day.

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries ‎of New York said to his knowledge around “four or five” people were still being detained at JFK, down from 13 at late Saturday. The number was fluid because as some were released, still more arrived including four Somali Americans overnight. They are understood to be permanent legal residents.

“We’re trying to move people from what we believe is unlawful detention as expeditiously as possible” he said.

Jeffries described a complex system of court rulings, directives from the Department of Homeland security and the administration.

“The local border patrol has been relatively cooperative. However the White House chief of staff said today that executive order does not apply to permanent legal residents. But even his interpretation is inaccurate. There are are multiple permanent legal residents being detained, in some cases for more than 30 hours.”

Jeffries said it was obvious the White House had put out inaccurate information based on what we’re seeing.

“There are legal residents who have been unlawfully detained in their home country. End of story. We’ve seen it time and again,” he said.

The congressman also expressed concern that lawful US residents were being denied permission to return.

“There is a couple in Jordan, one of whom is a green card holder, who are being prevented from board‎ing a flight.”

Updated

Britons holding dual citizenship with any of the seven Muslim-majority countries listed as suspended by the United States will still be allowed to enter the US, says the Foreign Office.

A statement from the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says that after conversations with the US government, the department can confirm the following (direct from its statement):

  • The presidential executive order only applies to individuals travelling from one of the seven named countries.
  • If you are travelling to the US from anywhere other than one of those countries (for instance, the UK) the executive order does not apply to you and you will experience no extra checks regardless of your nationality or your place of birth.
  • If you are a UK national who happens to be travelling from one of those countries to the US, then the order does not apply to you – even if you were born in one of those countries.
  • If you are a dual citizen of one of those countries travelling to the US from OUTSIDE those countries then the order does not apply to you.

The only dual nationals who might have extra checks are those coming from one of the seven countries themselves – for example a UK-Libya dual national coming from Libya to the US.

Chelsea Clinton protests at NYC rally against ban

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hillary and Bill, is at the New York rally against the immigration ban.

Dozens of rallies across the country continue to attract thousands protesting Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel.

Guardian readers tweeted us from Boston’s rally in Copley Square:

From a Guardian reader in Rochester, New York:

https://twitter.com/GrandREvans/status/825791520812986368

From Sabrina Siddiqui at the DC rally:

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House began marching toward the US Capitol, many clutching signs that read “Refugees welcome”. They chanted a call and response of “What do you want -- justice? When do you want it -- now”, while others still standing outside the White House gates simply shouted “Shame”.

A Guardian reader sent this pic from outside the new Trump hotel in DC:

Guardian reporter Sabrina Siddiqui sent this update from the DC rally:

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House began marching toward the US Capitol, many clutching signs that read “Refugees welcome”. They chanted a call and response of “What do you want -- justice? When do you want it -- now”, while others still standing outside the White House gates simply shouted “Shame”.

From a Guardian reader outside the Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota:

From a reader at San Francisco’s airport rally:

Are you at a rally? Please tweet photos, news and videos to me at @ambiej.

Tech industry comes out in force against travel ban

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Lawyer Omar C. Jadwat speaks outside of the US District Court in New York, where a judge issued an emergency stay for those detained at airports.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Lawyer Omar C. Jadwat speaks outside of the US District Court in New York on Saturday night, where a judge issued an emergency stay for those detained at airports. Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA

Many leaders in the tech industry came out strongly against Trump’s executive order which bans refugees and suspends entry for visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority countries.

As Edward Helmore reports:

Executives at major tech companies that rely on foreign skilled labour also expressed concern. In a memo to staff, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said it had been “painful to see the personal cost” on our colleagues. The tech giant’s USSR-born co-founder, Sergei Brin, attended the protest at San Francisco’s airport, telling reporters he was there in a personal capacity, “because I am a refugee”.

Apple head Tim Cook said in an email to employees that he had contacted the White House to explain the “negative effect” of the restrictions, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, an Indian immigrant, described in an online post “the positive impact that immigration has on our company, for the country, and for the world”.

The tech world focused fundraising efforts for ACLU, which led the legal challenge against Trump’s executie order.

Car-ride company Lyft co-founders announced the company would donation $1 million to the ACLU over the next four years to help its working defending the constitution.

The popular game Dots installed a pop-up in its app, declaring it welcomes “players from all over the world” , with a “support now” button linking directly to the ACLU donation page.

Many tech types took to Twitter to offer to match ACLU donations, taking over from each other as soon as each total was reached.

Dominik Hofmann, the founder of Vine and Byte, offered to match ACLU donations up to $50,000 Saturday night, with dozens of people sending receipts for donations ranging from $10 to thousands of dollars. A combined $116,000 was donated, tweeted Hofmann.

Steven Frank from Panic matched donations to $10,000, raising that amount in one hour. Eoghan McCabe, CEO and co-founder of Intercom, offered to match up to $50k on Sunday, as did Patrick Collison from Stripe.

Outside of the tech world, singer Sia and actor Rosie O’Donnell both offered to meet ACLU donations up to $100,000.

Updated

Thousands of people protest President Trump’s immigration ban on citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries outside the White House.
Thousands of people protest President Trump’s immigration ban on citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries outside the White House. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

From Guardian reporter Lauren Gambino at the anti-travel ban rally outside the White House:

Hundreds of protesters with American flags, homemade signs and placards from last weekend’s women’s march are walking down Pennsylvania Ave toward the White House chanting: Shame.

Protesters are reacting to the executive orders signed by the new president Donald Trump this week to start building a wall along the southern border and a draconian measure to halt immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The impromptu rally follows similar scenes at airports around the country, where green card holders were detained and barred from entering.

Boos rang out and a number of middle fingers went up as the marchers in DC passed Trump international hotel along Pennsylvania Ave, chanting “refugees are welcome here”.

Custom and border agents defying federal judges order, say attorneys

Customs and Border Protection agents defied the orders of federal judges regarding Donald Trump’s travel bans on Sunday, according to attorneys who rallied popular protests around the country in support of detained refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries.

“Rogue customs and Border Patrol agents continue to try to get people on to planes,” Becca Heller, director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, told reporters on Sunday. “A lot of people have been handcuffed, a lot of people who don’t speak English are being coerced into taking involuntary departures.”

Agents told attorneys “it’s not going to happen” at Dulles international airport in Virginia on Sunday, as they tried to see detainees, according to Damon Silvers, special counsel at AFL-CIO, one of the legal groups trying to help visa holders in detention or threatened with deportation. Late Saturday night, federal judges in New York, Virginia and Massachusetts ordered a temporary halt to the president’s deportation of people who had arrived in the US with valid visas.

The USA men’s soccer captain, Michael Bradley, has attacked Donald Trump’s executive order, which bans travel to the US from seven Muslim-majority countries.

When Trump won the presidential election in November, Bradley said it was important “to give our president support”. However, Trump’s latest decision caused Bradley to speak out in an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl and then on his Instagram page.

“A few hours ago ago I gave an interview to Grant Wahl,” wrote Bradley, who has made more than 125 appearances for the men’s national team.

Read the rest of the story here.

The Iranian-born BBC reporter who was stopped at immigration today upon arriving at a US airport today, Ali Hamedani, has been allowed to enter - but had his phone and computer searched.

Reporters Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Cathy Otten, Alice Ross and Kareem Shaheen have been collecting stories from people all over the world affected by the ban:

People exit immigration after arriving from Dubai on Emirates Flight 203 at JFK airport last night.
People exit immigration after arriving from Dubai on Emirates Flight 203 at JFK airport last night. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Employee of an international airline at Dubai airport

We’ve had no written instructions yet from the US, at least not on the frontline, and the instructions that we have received don’t mention dual nationality or green cards – it’s very unclear what to do.

Some people are being stopped, while others are being given the benefit of the doubt. So if, for example, a passenger is Syrian holding a US passport we’re turning a blind eye – we’re pretending we haven’t seen the Syrian passport.

One passenger stuck in the airport here is a Syrian green card holder who was denied boarding. Her family, her job, her whole life is in the US and when she asks us when we will allow her to go home, none of us know what to say. Unfortunately because she’s Syrian it’s difficult for her to get a visa for Dubai and it’s difficult for her to go elsewhere.

At the moment her chances of getting into the US depend on which airport she goes to. If she’s landing in New York they’ll send her back, if it’s Houston they might accept her – what we’ve found is it really depends on which shift is operating; it’s not even a standard airport policy.

Last I heard they were trying any airport as long as she gets to US soil, and then at least once she’s there she can create a legal challenge or manage her way in instead of being stuck in Dubai.

Read other stories from individuals affected by the Trump travel ban here.

McCain and Graham: Trump's travel ban helps terrorists

Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham released a joint statement condemning the Trump’s travel ban executive order, declaring it “not properly vetted” and saying it will likely aide terrorist groups by telling people that the US shuns Muslims.

The statement reads:

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

It is clear from the confusion at our airports across the nation that President Trump’s executive order was not properly vetted. We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security.

Such a hasty process risks harmful results. We should not stop green-card holders from returning to the country they call home. We should not stop those who have served as interpreters for our military and diplomats from seeking refuge in the country they risked their lives to help. And we should not turn our backs on those refugees who have been shown through extensive vetting to pose no demonstrable threat to our nation, and who have suffered unspeakable horrors, most of them women and children.

Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. At this very moment, American troops are fighting side-by-side with our Iraqi partners to defeat ISIL. But this executive order bans Iraqi pilots from coming to military bases in Arizona to fight our common enemies. Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred. 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.

Updated

This just in from Sabrina Siddiqui, a Guardian reporter at the DC protest:

Thousands rally at anti-travel ban protests across the nation

Thousands of people are now attending rallies in cities across the country.

A rally in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York City, has just begun:

The official NYC subway account has been tweeting subway updates in anticipation of the large crowds:

Hundreds gather on the steps of the Rhode Island state house in Providence, RI.

Boston’s Copley Square looks full:

A crowd of a few hundred students have gathered to protest in the scenic grounds of the University of Virginia:

Large crowds also gathered outside the White House in DC:

Are you at a anti-travel ban rally? Please tweet photos, news and video from the rallies to me at @ambiej.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy promises to introduce a bill to overturn Trump’s executive order this week, although since Congress and the Senate are both Republican controlled it has very little to no chance of passing.

The president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, emailed all staff and students of the university last night speaking out against Trump’s travel ban, noting the impact it will have on the academic community. While it seems no Columbia University staff have been caught up so far, many other academics and students from other universities have been amongst those stopped from entering.

In the email published at Columbia Spectator, Bollinger wrote:

An estimated 17,000 international students in the U.S. are from the seven nations covered by the entry ban. Scholars planning to travel to the United States for meetings and conferences at our colleges and universities will effectively be barred from attending. If this order stands, there is the certainty of a profound impact on our University community, which is committed to welcoming students, faculty, and staff from around the world, as well as across the nation.

As I have said on many occasions, it is critically important that the University, as such, not take stands on ideological or political issues. Yet it is also true that the University, as an institution in the society, must step forward to object when policies and state action conflict with its fundamental values, and especially when they bespeak purposes and a mentality that are at odds with our basic mission. This is such a case.

File photo of a gay couple seeking legal recognition of their relationship.
File photo of a gay couple seeking legal recognition of their relationship. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

Reporter Alice Ross has been speaking to people affected by the travel ban, and people suddenly being cut off from those they love is a recurrent theme.

She spoke to a gay US citizen who was tantalizingly close to being able to bring his Iranian fiancé to the US:

I am a US citizen by birth and a gay male. When travelling in Iran as a tourist I met a Kurdish Iranian, also a gay male and we fell in love. I applied for a K1 Fiancé Visa and my petition was approved. Last November we travelled to Turkey where my fiancé had his interview at the US Embassy in Ankara. After two months of processing and vetting the visa was approved three days before President Trump took office.

When I heard the news about the executive order, I wanted to vomit. If my fiancé stays in Iran he will never be able to live freely and could be executed for his sexual orientation.

Our concern is that we’re going to miss the window of opportunity to get the visa - we only have until mid-April - which would mean we’d have to begin the process all over again. It’s so frustrating because we thought we’d made it, that we’d actually succeeded in demonstrating to the government that we had a legitimate relationship…

We were celebrating. We were to meet in Istanbul in March, send his passport to the embassy to get the visa, and enjoy some time together in Turkey before he finishes his Masters. Then he was going to fly here and it was going to be a happy ever after kind of story. And now the whole bottom has dropped out of everything.

An Iranian-born BBC reporter is currently stuck in immigration in Chicago airport, and is posting updates on Twitter about being taken to a waiting room.

Boston anti-travel ban rally begins with huge crowds

Hundreds of people already in Copley Square, Boston, for a rally against the travel ban executive order.

From a WBUR (Boston’s NPR affiliate) reporter:

From a Boston Globe reporter:

A local TV network is flying over the rally, with live video showing huge crowds and packed streets. The rally started at 1pm.

Earlier on Sunday Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway falsely told Fox News Sunday that Saturday night’s stay decision by a New York federal judge “doesn’t really affect the executive order”.

“The judge in Brooklyn, the Obama appointee judge in Brooklyn’s stay of order really doesn’t affect the executive order at all, because the executive order is meant to be prospective,” she told host Chris Wallace.

“It’s preventing not detaining,” she said.

Not all aspects of the executive order are covered by the Brooklyn judge’s decision, but it does stop deportations.

She also said she understood what it was like to be stopped at airports but that it was a small price to pay for national security.

“I was stopped many times ... after 9/11,” she said. “I didn’t resemble, or share a name with, or be part of any kind of terrorist conspiracy, but this is what we do to keep a nation safe.”

Just remember that Conway is a blonde white US-born American woman.

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Nesrine Malik, a Sudanese-born writer who lives in London, writes about the personal impact of the travel ban:

I now cannot travel to the US, a country I visit frequently and in which I have work interests, close family and dear friends. It is a curious feeling, a new feeling. One that collapses space-time and connects you to all those before you who have found themselves on the ugly end of a collective insanity. It is a feeling that rocks the very ground on which you thought we all stood.

Suddenly, all certainties look shaky. Residencies, passports, green cards, jobs, mortgages, friends, marriages – all the things you thought fortified you against the mobilisation of state machinery – dissolve. You are only a Muslim. And what does that mean? It is a tag that defies definition, becoming more elusive the more you try to pin it down. I was reminded of a scene from a dramatisation of Roots author Alex Haley’s life, when he, dressed proudly in his US Coast Guard uniform and sporting his medals, confidently asks for a hotel room for the night for him and his wife. When he is refused one for being black, he returns to his car enraged – not at those who denied him but at himself for thinking he was exempt. “All they saw was a monkey.”

Read the rest here.

Kim Kardashian, who backed Hillary Clinton during the election, is also getting politically involved with the travel ban by tweeting statistics to her 49 million followers.

From Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi:

Mona Chalabi provides data on the US Muslim population.

John McCain: "very concerned" travel ban helps Isis

The Senate armed services committee chairman, John McCain, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The Senate armed services committee chairman, John McCain, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Senator John McCain spoke publicly about his concern that Trump’s travel ban could aid Islamic State by giving it more reasons to encourage its supporters to fight against the US.

“I think the effect will probably in some areas give Isis some more propaganda,” McCain said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation.

McCain, chair of the Senate armed services committee and a Republican from Arizona, added that he was “very concerned about our effect on the Iraqis right now”.

He noted that former CIA director David Petraeus is “very concerned” for local translators who worked for the US military, who often do the job specifically in the hope of receiving a visa to the US.

After the travel ban, a former military translator, Iraqi Hameed Khalid Darweesh, was among those stopped at JFK airport this weekend and initially refused entry.

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With thousands expected at protests around the country against Trump’s executive order...

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Wondering if your senator backs or criticizes the travel ban executive order?

This Google document shows listssenators alphabetically, noting whether they have opposed or remained silent to the ban, any link or public statement about it and the dates they will be up for re-election.

It also includes contact information, such as their office address, phone number and online contact details.

The document shows, for example, Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona, a Republican, has spoken out publicly against the ban, while Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana, has made no statement.

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Travel ban will no longer apply to green-card holders, says Priebus

Green cards are issued to lawful permanent residents as evidence of their authorization to live and work in the US.
Green cards are issued to lawful permanent residents as evidence of their authorization to live and work in the US. Photograph: Khue Bui/AP

Only a day after casting airports around the US into confusion and hours after his first defeat in federal court, Donald Trump and his advisers flew into a defense of his vague and chaotically enforced ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, however, appeared to concede ground when he said the ban would no longer apply to green-card holders.

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Priebus said 325,000 travellers had entered the US on Saturday and 109 were detained.

“Most of those people were moved out,” he said. “We’ve got a couple dozen more that remain and I would suspect that as long as they’re not awful people that they will move through before another half a day today.”

In an abrupt, apparent change from the White House’s original policy, Priebus said the order would no longer affect green-card holders. But he also suggested that “other countries” may “need to be added” to the travel ban.

“Maybe some of those people should be detained,” he said, although valid visa holders have already passed through an arduous screening and interview process.

Read the rest of the story here.

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From the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent:

St Patrick’s Day and the annual “hooley” at the White House to celebrate Ireland’s national day could pose embarrassment for some of the Irish political parties that normally attend the Washington DC celebrations on 17 March.

The leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour party, Colum Eastwood, confirmed on Sunday that he will boycott Donald Trump’s hosting of the shamrock-tinged shindig this year.

Speaking ahead of Theresa May’s visit to Dublin on Monday where she will hold Brexit talks with the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, Eastwood said the Trump travel ban underpinned his decision not to attend this year’s St Patrick’s Day party in the White House.

He said it was up to other political parties both in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic to decide if they thought it was right to attend the annual party.

Eastwood said: “The worst fears about the Trump presidency are coming to fruition. These immigration bans are a method of designed discrimination against one religion.

“This US presidency is not normal, therefore normal diplomatic niceties should not apply. I would urge the Irish government to take every step possible to ensure that these discriminatory checks and bans are not enforced at our airports. We should have no hand, act or part in implementing this ban,” said Eastwood.

Kenny is expected to accept the new US president’s invitation to the traditional St Patrick’s Day celebrations but the Irish foreign minister has expressed deep concern over the travel ban.

Charlie Flanagan said he would be raising the ban during his visit to Washington next week.

“While US immigration policy is a matter for the US authorities, it is clear that the most recent decisions could have far-reaching implications – both on humanitarian grounds and on relations between the US and the global Muslim community,” the Flanagan said.

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Thousands expected at protest rallies across the US

Good morning from New York City, where rallies will take place throughout the US today in response to the executive order signed by the president on Friday banning refugees and suspending visas from residents of seven Muslim-majority countries.

  • At 1pm ET, a huge rally is expected in Copley Square, Boston, hosted by CAIR Massachusetts. Over 16,000 people marked themselves as attending on the Facebook event. It will be held at “at the site of the Khalil Gibran Plaque - Gibran was an immigrant from Lebanon”, reads the event description.
  • At 2pm a large rally is expected at Battery Park in lower Manhattan, hosted by the New York Immigration Coalition. Over 9,500 people have marked themselves as attending on Facebook.
  • Thousands are expected to descend on the White House in DC at 1pm to protest the ban, with 13,000 people on Facebook saying they will attend the “No Muslim Ban” rally hosted by the group Peace for Iran.
  • Most major cities have a rally planned, and smaller rallies are expected all over the country, including Portland, ME, Reno, NV, Boise ID. Check out this Facebook post which shows all the currently planned rallies and their respective Facebook event page.

Are you at a rally in protest of Trump’s executive order today? Please tweet us pictures, news and video of the event at @ambiej!

That is it from me. Thanks for all your comments and suggestions. My colleague Amber Jamieson in the Guardian’s US will be taking over from here.

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Guardian political editor Anushka Asthana has a bit more on the statement from No 10.

She says Boris Johnson will speak to two of Trump’s most senior advisers, Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, and make it clear the UK wants an exemption from this travel ban for its citizens.

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The Press Association has just filed this:

Prime minister Theresa May has ordered the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, to telephone their American counterparts to make representations about the US travel ban, Downing Street has said.

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According to the Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana, Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, has added her voice to calls for Trump’s state visit to the UK to be cancelled.

State visits are designed for both the host, and the head of state who is being hosted, to celebrate and entrench the friendships and shared values between their respective countries.

A state visit from the current president of the United States could not possibly occur in the best traditions of the enterprise while a cruel and divisive policy which discriminates against citizens of the host nation is in place.

I hope President Trump immediately reconsiders his Muslim ban.

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The scale of opposition to Trump’s travel plan in the UK continues to grow. A petition to cancel a state visit by the US president, planned for later this year, had a couple of hundred signatures this morning. It now stands at over 300,000.

Trump has tweeted again citing the deaths of Christians in the Middle East as justification for his travel ban.

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Priebus went on to say: “Perhaps we need to take it further.”

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Reince Priebus (right) in the Oval Office at the White House.
Reince Priebus (right) in the Oval Office at the White House. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Political reaction is starting to gather pace in the US. Reuters has this:

White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, defended its implementation of Trump’s executive action targeting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries and said only two dozen travellers remain detained.

“It wasn’t chaos,” Priebus said on NBC’s Meet the Press, adding that 325,000 travelers entered the United States on Saturday and 109 of them were detained.

“Most of those people were moved out. We’ve got a couple dozen more that remain and I would suspect that as long as they’re not awful people that they will move through before another half a day today,” he said.

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A bit more from Reuters on those comments from Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader.

The US Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said the United States needs to “be careful” while implementing President Donald Trump’s new executive order targeting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

McConnell said on ABC’s This Week program it was a good idea to tighten the vetting of immigrants, but “I also think it’s important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism, are Muslims, both in this country and overseas ... We need to be careful as we do this.”

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According to Reuters, the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has just said “we need to be careful” while carrying out President Trump’s order.

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According to CNN, Trump’s travel ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries may be just the start.

It has just published a report that suggests the administration is considering asking all foreign visitors “to disclose all websites and social media sites they visit, and to share the contacts in their cell phones”.

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That sense of confusion – and fear – is clear in some of the conversations my colleague Alice Ross has been having with people caught up in the US travel ban.

A Palestinian woman living in New York:

I’m an architect from the West Bank and I live in New York with my spouse, who holds American citizenship. I have my green card and planned to travel to Palestine this week to visit my family, who were very excited to see me. I also wanted to renew my passport, which is expiring soon.

After hearing about yesterday’s ban, we decided to cancel my flight until we have some clarity. It’s true that Palestine is not on the list of banned countries but the fact that the order is so random and vague makes the situation scary. I am afraid if I travel and they expand the order, I will be in limbo and I will be living apart from my spouse for an unknown period.

My family is so disappointed I’m not going home, and I don’t know what to do about my new passport. I’ve also lost money by cancelling the flight. Right now everything is so vague and unclear. If they go ahead with these orders it will make the US a big prison where so many people will hate living here. I’m just waiting and hoping for some clarity in the next few days, but I have no idea whether to just risk it and go to Palestine. It’s a mess.

And this from an employee at Dubai international airport gives a clear sense of the confusion among those trying to implement the ban:

We’ve had no written instructions yet from the US, at least not on the frontline, and the instructions that we have received don’t mention dual nationality or green cards – it’s very unclear what to do.

So some people are stopped while others are being given the benefit of the doubt, so if, for example, a passenger is Syrian holding a US passport we’re turning a blind eye, we’re pretending we haven’t seen the Syrian passport.

One passenger stuck in the airport here is a Syrian green card holder who was denied boarding. Her family, her job, her whole life is in the US and when she asks us when we will allow her to go home, none of us know what to say. Unfortunately because she’s Syrian it’s difficult for her to get a visa for Dubai and it’s difficult for her to go elsewhere.

At the moment her chances of getting into the US depends on which airport she goes to. If she’s landing in New York they’ll send her back, if it’s Houston they might accept her – what we’ve found is it really depends on which shift is operating, it’s not even a standard airport policy.

Last I heard they were trying any airport as long as she gets to US soil, and then at least once she’s there she can create a legal challenge or manage her way in instead of being stuck in Dubai.

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According to this piece from CNN there was a sense of confusion and chaos when Trump announced his executive order, with homeland security officials being unaware of the detail of the plan.

When President Donald Trump declared at the Pentagon Friday he was enacting strict new measures to prevent domestic terror attacks, there were few within his government who knew exactly what he meant.

Administration officials weren’t immediately sure which countries’ citizens would be barred from entering the United States. The Department of Homeland Security was left making a legal analysis on the order after Trump signed it. A Border Patrol agent, confronted with arriving refugees, referred questions only to the president himself, according to court filings.

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Afternoon summary

  • Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries has provoked widespread protest and condemnation around the world.
  • European leaders have expressed their opposition, saying it undermines the Geneva convention, weakens the US and boosts Islamic extremism.
  • In a tweet, Trump defended the move – aimed at people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya – saying the US needed “strong borders”.
  • In the UK, Theresa May has been criticised for her initial refusal to condemn the ban. The government has now said it opposes the move and will defend the rights of UK nationals.
  • However, May faces growing pressure to cancel a planned visit by the US president to the UK later this year.
  • The British Olympian Sir Mo Farrah – who was born in Somalia and moved to the UK when he was eight – has condemned the ban. He said the decision came from a place of “ignorance and prejudice” – adding that he will have to tell his children that he might not be able to come home to the US from his training camp in Ethiopia.

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The global reaction to Trump’s travel ban continues. Our correspondent in Iraq Martin Chulov has just sent this:

Iraq’s government was being urged on Sunday to impose a reciprocal ban and said it was continuing to examine the ramifications of the visa decision. The foreign relations committee said it supported a similar ban on US citizens entering Iraq, while the Popular Mobilisation Units, an umbrella group of mainly Shia militias, called for the expulsion of US citizens currently in the country.

Iraqi refugees who have been accepted into the US in the past decade have all been subjected to extensive vetting, involving interviews and background checks. Many have worked for the US military or government.

There has been no official reaction to the announcement from Yemen, or Libya, which have each been ravaged by civil war and have no functioning central government.

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The Muslim Council of Britain has issued a statement condemning the travel ban and calling for May to take a firmer stand against Trump:

Trump’s Muslim Ban: Time for our Government to Stand Up For British Values

29 January 2017

The Muslim Council of Britain condemns the executive order by US President Trump to initiate a ban on people from a select few Muslim majority countries.

It calls on our British government to speak out much more forcefully and stand up for the British values it supposedly seeks from others. For all intents and purposes this is a Muslim ban designed not to confront terrorism but to placate the most hateful sections of American society.

Those countries whose citizens were found to be involved in terrorism in the United States are not on Mr Trump’s list.

Harun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “This ban on Muslims is not only an inconvenience, it is downright dangerous to our values of equality and non-discrimination. We are told that British values include the rule of law and mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.

“And yet, our prime minister has found it hard to express these values when representing us on the world stage. At the same time, the ban will affect us here in Britain, as those with dual nationality such as Sir Mo Farah and the Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi will also be affected by this ban.

“Our government should express in no uncertain terms how daft this policy is to its US counterparts, and press home how counter-productive it is in its professed fight to confront terrorism.

“In front of Mr Trump, the prime minister said that the point of the “special relationship” was to have a frank dialogue. Well, this is one area where we need to be frank about where we stand. As an important ally of the United States, surely we have a duty to remind them of the values on which they were founded upon.”

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The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has added his voice to the growing calls for Trump’s visit to UK in the summer to be cancelled.

He reiterated his condemnation of the US travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries and said the UK should not be rolling out the “red carpet” while it remains in place.

He also suggested he would boycott the event if it did go ahead.

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Trump is awake and tweeting a defence of his controversial travel ban.

PA has issued a fuller statement from Sir Mo Farah in which he says Trump’s ban made him “an alien”. The Somalia-born four-time Olympic champion, who lives and trains in the US, said:

On 1 January this year, Her Majesty the Queen made me a knight of the realm. On 27 January, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

I am a British citizen who has lived in America for the past six years – working hard, contributing to society, paying my taxes and bringing up our four children in the place they now call home.

Now, me and many others like me are being told that we may not be welcome.

It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that daddy might not be able to come home – to explain why the president has introduced a policy that comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice.

I was welcomed into Britain from Somalia at eight years old and given the chance to succeed and realise my dreams.

I have been proud to represent my country, win medals for the British people and receive the greatest honour of a knighthood.

My story is an example of what can happen when you follow polices of compassion and understanding, not hate and isolation.

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No 10 has insisted that Trump’s state visit in the summer will go ahead despite growing calls for it to be cancelled in light of his travel ban for people from several Muslim-majority countries.

Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron have called for it to be cancelled and a petition supporting the move, which had a few hundred signatures this morning, has now topped 100,000.

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Sir Mo Farah, one of the UK’s most successful athletes, has just issued a statement condemning Trump’s travel ban.

Olympic champion Mo Farah
Olympic champion Mo Farah Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

I am a British citizen who has lived in America for the past six years – working hard, contributing to society, paying my taxes and bringing up our four children in the place they now call home.

Now, me and many others like me are being told that we may not be welcome. It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that daddy might not be able to come home – to explain why the president has introduced a policy that comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice.

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Hamaseh Tayari.
Hamaseh Tayari. Photograph: Hamaseh Tayari

My colleague Nicola Slawson reported on Saturday about the plight of an Iranian-born Glasgow vet after she was left stranded in Costa Rica following Trump’s executive order. Since then members of the public have raised thousands of pounds to help her.

Here is Nicola’s updated story:

Thousands of pounds has been raised for an Iranian-born Glasgow vet after she was left stranded in Costa Rica following Trump’s executive order.

Hamaseh Tayari’s flight home from her holiday required her to change flights in New York, meaning she would need a transit visa, which was revoked in light of the travel ban because of her Iranian passport.

Tayari, who grew up in Italy, told the Guardian: “I am destroyed. I did not know that I could cry for so long. It feels like the beginning of the end. How this is possible?”

A group of Scottish women lead by Kathleen Caskie, from the the Women for Independence campaign group, banded together to set up a Go Fund Me page to raise enough money for her new flight home.

Caskie said: “Firstly, she works in Glasgow, so therefore is now Glaswegian, and you don’t cross Glaswegians, and secondly, we hate Trump and, finally, our reach is such that we could raise the money by midnight tonight if she needs it.”

In the end, the cost of the flights, £2,600, was raised in less than 33 minutes. Nearly £5,000 has now been raised and all extra money will be donated to the Scottish Council for Refugees “in further protest against Trump’s policies”.

On hearing the news, Tayari, who said the cost of the new flight was more than her whole month’s wages, said: “My God! This is amazing. I was not expecting this.”

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Is this a hardening of the UK line from Boris Johnson? It certainly seems to go further than either May and David Gauke this morning, calling Trump’s travel ban “divisive and wrong”.

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This is from Philip Oltermann, the Guardian’s Berlin bureau chief, with a few more details of a phone call between Angela Merkel and Donald Trump on Saturday.

A spokesperson for Angela Merkel said on Sunday that she “regrets” Donald Trump’s decision to ban citizens of certain countries from entering the country, and that the German chancellor had “explained” the obligations of the Geneva refugee convention to the US president in a phone call on Saturday.

“The chancellor regrets the US government’s entry ban against refugees and the citizens of certain countries”, Merkel’s spokesperson Steffen Seibert said in a statement. “She is convinced that the necessary, decisive battle against terrorism does not justify a general suspicion against people of a certain origin or a certain religion”.

“The Geneva refugee convention requires the international community to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds. All signatory states are obligated to do. The German government explained this policy in their call yesterday.”

Seibert further said that the German government would examine what consequences the ban would have for German citizens with dual citizenship, and would “represent their interests, if necessary, before our American partners”.

A summary of the phone call between Merkel and Trump, jointly issued to the press on Saturday, had made no mention of the travel ban, emphasising merely the “fundamental significance” of Nato and the intention to “further deepen the already excellent bilateral relations in the coming years”.

One of the German citizens apparently already affected has a seat in the German parliament. Omid Nouripour, a Green Party MP with German-Iranian citizenship, is reported to be among tens of thousands of German citizens believed to be banned from entering the US under the travel ban. Nouripour is the vice-chair of the German parliament’s American-German group and a member of the steering committee of Germany’s Atlantic Bridge programme.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin joined the protests at US airports on Saturday. He said he was there because “I’m a refugee.”

It seems that many within the Republican party are unhappy with Trump’s latest move, too.

My colleague Richard Adams has flagged up this piece from The Hill, which reports several senior senators have come out against the move.

GOP lawmakers are stepping out against President Trump’s executive order barring many refugees and citizens of certain predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) called the order “unacceptable” amid concerns that it would prevent legal permanent residents from entering the U.S., which the administration attempted to clarify on Saturday.

“President Trump and his administration are right to be concerned about national security, but it’s unacceptable when even legal permanent residents are being detained or turned away at airports and ports of entry,” Flake said in a statement.

“Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims,” Flake added.

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The Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana has had this from the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

He says that May would be “failing British people” if she allowed Trump to come for a state visit while his policy – including an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees – remains in place.

“Donald Trump should not be welcomed to Britain while he abuses our shared values with his shameful Muslim ban and attacks on refugees’ and women’s rights,” said Corbyn.

“Theresa May would be failing the British people if she does not postpone the state visit and condemn Trump’s actions in the clearest terms. That’s what Britain expects and deserves.”

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A bit more on the story that the US Department of Homeland Security is going to implement the ban despite a court order from a federal judge overnight that granted a stay on deportations for people who arrived in the US with valid visas but were detained on entry.

This is the original statement from homeland security, which says it “will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s executive orders in a manner that ensures the safety and security of the American people.

“President Trump’s executive orders remain in place – prohibited travel will remain prohibited, and the US government retains its right to revoke visas at any time if required for national security or public safety.”

However, the final paragraph adds: “The Department of Homeland Security will comply with judicial orders; faithfully enforce our immigration laws, and implement President Trump’s executive orders to ensure that those entering the United States do not pose a threat to our country or the American people.”

Here is the statement in full:

Department Of Homeland Security Response To Recent Litigation Release Date: January 29, 2017

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders in a manner that ensures the safety and security of the American people. President Trump’s Executive Orders remain in place—prohibited travel will remain prohibited, and the U.S. government retains its right to revoke visas at any time if required for national security or public safety. President Trump’s Executive Order affects a minor portion of international travelers, and is a first step towards reestablishing control over America’s borders and national security.

Approximately 80 million international travelers enter the United States every year. Yesterday, less than one percent of the more than 325,000 international air travelers who arrive every day were inconvenienced while enhanced security measures were implemented. These individuals went through enhanced security screenings and are being processed for entry to the United States, consistent with our immigration laws and judicial orders.

The Department of Homeland Security will faithfully execute the immigration laws, and we will treat all of those we encounter humanely and with professionalism. No foreign national in a foreign land, without ties to the United States, has any unfettered right to demand entry into the United States or to demand immigration benefits in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security will comply with judicial orders; faithfully enforce our immigration laws, and implement President Trump’s Executive Orders to ensure that those entering the United States do not pose a threat to our country or the American people.

My colleague Alice Ross is exploring what this will mean for those trying to enter the US from the affected countries.

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The former Ukip leader Nigel Farage is now being interviewed on the BBC. He says he backs Trump’s travel ban and calls for the UK to do something similar.

“In this country I would like to see extreme vetting ... This is what Trump’s supporters want him to do.”

And for good measure he is backing Trump’s planned wall with Mexico.

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The Independent is reporting that US homeland security has vowed to implement the ban in the face of the court order.

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Well Farron obviously decided not to “hedge his bets” for long.

The Lib Dems have just put out a statement on behalf of their leader in which he is very clear that Trump’s planned visit should not go ahead.

Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has said that Britain should put President Trump’s visit on hold until he stops banning people purely on grounds of their faith.

Tim Farron said: “Downing Street has finally distanced itself from President Trump’s appalling ban on Muslim people after Theresa May failed to do so. By then the damage to Britain’s reputation had been done.

“The British people were waiting for a Love Actually moment, instead they saw our prime minister behaving like Trump’s poodle.

“Any visit by President Trump to Britain should be on hold until his disgraceful ban comes to an end. Otherwise Theresa May would be placing the Queen in an impossible position of welcoming a man who is banning British citizens purely on grounds of their faith.

“Still Boris Johnson’s Foreign Office is dithering and has provided no travel advice to British citizens who could be caught up in the ban.

“When will Theresa May’s Conservative Brexit government stop costing [sic] up to unsavoury leaders and get a grip of this mounting crisis?”

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The petition to stop Trump’s state visit to the UK planned for later this year was on a few hundred when I first spotted it this morning. Now it is nearing 16,000 and going strong.

It will be interesting to see if other politicians join Corbyn in supporting the move. The Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, appeared to duck the question on Marr this morning:

I thought the offer of a state visit was hasty, particularly given the things he’s been coming out with recently. My view is, of course you should engage with people like that. But there’s a massive difference between engaging with Donald Trump and effectively giving succour to the kind of things that he’s coming out with.

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Here is the Wall Street Journal’s Berlin correspondent on Angela Merkel’s stance.

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Angela Merkel.
Angela Merkel. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA

A bit more detail on Angela Merkel’s stance on the US travel ban.

According to the AFP new agency her spokesman Steffen Seibert said: “The chancellor regrets the entry ban imposed by the US government against refugees and nationals from certain countries.

“She is convinced that even in the necessarily resolute battle against terrorism it is not justified to place people from a certain origin or belief under general suspicion.”

The German government “will now examine the consequences” of the ban for German citizens with dual nationality affected by the decision, he added.

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There appears to be a growing momentum behind calls to stop Trump coming to the UK for a full state visit in the summer.

A formal petition has been launched here and former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has voiced his concerns on Twitter.

Former Labour leadership candidate Chuka Umunna has just added his voice, saying Trump should not be allowed to come until the travel ban is overturned.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has issued a strong rebuttal of the US travel ban.

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Robert Peston is now interviewing the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, on ITV. Corbyn reiterates his “total opposition” to the travel ban which he says represents a fundamental attack on key tenets of the Geneva convention.

And he says Trump’s planned visit to the UK later this year should be put on hold until the ban is lifted.

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More from the Iraqi-born Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi. According to Sky News he fears his sons who study in the US will not be able to re-enter the country.

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The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has issued a damning statement on Trump’s travel ban, saying it “flies in the face of US values of freedom and tolerance”.

President Trump’s ban on refugees and immigrants from certain countries is shameful and cruel.

The USA has a proud history of welcoming and resettling refugees. The President can’t just turn his back on this global crisis - all countries need to play their part.

While every country has the right to set its own immigration policies, this new policy flies in the face of the values of freedom and tolerance that the USA was built upon.

I’m pleased that the Prime Minister has now said she and the government do not agree with President Trump’s policy, which will affect many British citizens who have dual nationality, including Londoners born in countries affected by the ban.

I will work with the government on behalf of Londoners affected.

As a nation that, like the USA, values tolerance, diversity and freedom, we cannot just shrug our shoulders and say: ‘It’s not our problem’.

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The UK government has sent out David Gauke, chief secretary to the treasury, to defend its position.

He insists May was right not to condemn the travel ban earlier, adding the government will now make representations to the US on behalf of Britons caught up in the ban.

Gauke says the UK has a relationship with the Trump administration thanks to May’s trip which will give the UK more influence.

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Harriet Harman.
Harriet Harman. Photograph: Lynne Cameron/PA

Next up on Marr was Harriet Harman. My colleague Rowena Mason has just sent this through:

Harriet Harman, former acting Labour leader, said it was important as British prime minister that May went to the US to meet the new president.

However, she added: “I was apprehensive as we know Donald Trump is misogynist and xenophobic and stands against so many British values, so I was very dismayed when I saw her holding his hand ... And then I was horrified when he announced this ban and three times she said it was nothing to do with me. Well, it is to do with us. She obviously needs to be careful as PM, but she needs to be strong as well.

“I was really disappointed and hope she has learned some lessons. She has got to learn that she has got to stand up for things and can’t just be cautious and just come out against something when she is pushed, because we are in a vulnerable position economically, looking for trade deals, it must not make her feel weak, she has got to be politically strong.”

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The Iraq born Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi has voiced his anger and opposition to the travel ban on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr show this morning, saying he would no longer be able to travel to the US.

He said that for the first time in his life he felt discriminated against, adding “it’s demeaning, it’s sad.”

He said the ban would hit hundreds of thousands of Britons who were born in the countries included in the ban and warned it would boost Islamic extremists: “It plays into their ideology. It is counterproductive” and ruined the US’s reputation as a haven for refugees and those fleeing persecution

On Saturday night he retweeted this in an apparent dig at Theresa May’s initial reluctance to condemn the ban.

On Marr, Zahawi said he welcomed May’s subsequent announcement that she did not agree with Trump, adding he hoped the US would see sense and overturn the decision.

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Moustafa Bayoumi, associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, has given a damning verdict on Trump’s travel ban.

He says it “is nothing short of a Muslim ban by another name. It is cruel and callous, espouses positions contrary to the professed values of the United States, and will certainly produce more problems than it purports to solve. In other words, it’s exactly like Donald Trump.”

Read the full piece here.

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The travel ban has provoked huge protests some airports across the US. The biggest appears to have been at JFK airport in New York, where thousands of people gathered to voice their opposition, chanting “Refugees are welcome here. No hate no fear – immigrants are welcome here”.

The Guardian has a picture gallery of the demonstrations here.

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Among those to condemn Trump’s move was the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

In a series of tweets, Trudeau underscored his government’s commitment to bringing in “those fleeing persecution, terror & war”.

Within hours Trudeau’s tweets had been shared more than 300,000 times.

In the US, there was horror among groups that work with refugees and migrants. Thanu Yakupitiyage, a spokeswoman for the New York Immigration Coalition, told the Observer: “This is dehumanising. I am livid. It’s outrageous. People are in a state of shock.”

Immigration policy analyst David Bier, from the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, described Trump’s order as “illegal” as it appeared to target a religious group. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it would issue a court challenge on Monday, claiming that the new entry rules target Muslims because of their faith and therefore contravene the constitutional right to freedom of religion.

In the UK, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, condemned the ban and Theresa May’s reaction to it.

“President Trump’s executive order against refugees and Muslims should shock and appal us all.” He said May should have stood up for “Britain and our values by condemning his actions. It should sadden our country that she chose not to.

“After Trump’s hideous actions and May’s weak failure to condemn them, it’s more important than ever for us to say to refugees seeking a place of safety that they will always be welcome in Britain.”

Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Commons health select committee, said Trump must not be invited to address both houses of parliament from Westminster Hall on his state visit later this year, pointedly insisting that “those who wish to fawn over him” should do so elsewhere.

The Scottish Tory leade,r Ruth Davidson, said the ban was “both wrong in itself and very worrying for the future”.

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Good morning. Welcome to the Guardian liveblog following the developments and reaction to Donald’s Trump’s US travel ban for people from several Muslim-majority counties.

Here is a quick summary of what we know so far:

  • Donald Trump’s decision to ban immigration from a string of Muslim-majority nations has sparked fury and anguish around the world as refugees and migrants were prevented from boarding flights to the US.
  • The executive order, which halts travel from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – has received global condemnation and led to chaos at US airports.
  • A homeland security spokesman said that green card holders – in effect, permanent residents – will also be covered by the ban, while a senior White House official indicated it was likely to be extended to other countries.
  • A state department spokesman confirmed that travellers from the named countries who have dual nationality will not be able to enter the US for 90 days. Members of religious minorities from those countries will, however, be granted immigration priority.
  • In the US a federal judge granted a stay on deportations for people who arrived in the US with valid visas but were detained on entry. The stay is only a partial block to the broader executive order, with the judge stopping short of a broader ruling on its constitutionality. Nevertheless, it was an early, significant blow to the new administration.
  • In the UK, the prime minister, Theresa May, was forced to issue a late-night statement saying she “does not agree” with Trump’s ban after coming under intense political pressure to condemn the order.
  • The statement is unlikely to be strong enough to satisfy many of the MPs expressing outrage about Trump’s move is also facing questions about why she took so long to respond to the controversy, which has soured her trip to visit Trump on Friday, which Downing Street had regarded as a success.

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