Obama Rejects Trump Immigration Orders, Backs Protests

Obama Rejects Trump Immigration Orders, Backs Protests

Ending his quiet just 10 days after he cleared out office, previous President Barack Obama supported across the country challenges President Donald Trump's official request on migration Monday.

In an emphatic articulation issued through a representative, Obama said he was "encouraged by the level of engagement occurring in groups around the nation."

"Residents practicing their Constitutional appropriate to collect, sort out and have their voices heard by their chose authorities is precisely what we hope to see when American qualities are in question," he said.

Right away a while later, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates — a leftover from the Obama organization — sent a notice to Justice Department legal advisors requesting them not to protect the official request against a few legitimate difficulties that were recorded throughout the end of the week.

The previous president rejected Trump's dispute Sunday that his official requests limiting go from seven dominatingly Muslim nations were "like what President Obama did in 2011 when he prohibited visas for evacuees from Iraq for six months."

Obama's announcement Monday stated: "as to correlations with President Obama's remote approach choices, as we've heard some time recently, the President on a very basic level can't help contradicting the thought of oppressing people in light of their confidence or religion."

The 2011 request did not boycott visas for displaced people, who by definition don't go on visas. It fixed the survey procedure for subjects of Iraq and for exiles from the six different nations, while Trump's is a close cover arrange applying to almost all occupants and residents of every one of the seven nations.

The announcement Monday alluded to Obama's comments in a news meeting in November 2015, when he said the "Joined States needs to venture up and do its part" to secure and help displaced people.

"When I hear people say that, well, perhaps we ought to simply concede the Christians yet not the Muslims, when I hear political pioneers proposing that there would be a religious test for which a man who's escaping from a war-torn nation is conceded, when some of those people themselves originate from families who profited from security when they were escaping political mistreatment — that is dishonorable," Obama said at the time.

"That's not American. That's not who we are," he said then. "We don't have religious tests to our compassion."