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Trump says ‘all is going well’ on immigration order amid questions, confusion, while Obama backs protesters

The Washington Post: President Trump continued Monday to adamantly defend his immigration order temporarily banning entry into the United States for migrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world, despite mounting criticism and questions that stretched from Capitol Hill to the United Nations. Trump’s order has sparked protests from coast to coast, court cases challenging its constitutionality, unease in cities worldwide and a host of questions about the limits of its scope. The ban’s impact continued to reverberate around the world. Refugee groups worried that some 20,000 people could be impacted by the 120 day suspension of refugee admission. Lawyers sought to confirm how many people remain detained in the United States, while a lawsuit argued that dozens of people had been forced to give up their green cards by Customs and Border Patrol agents.

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