Trump's Muslim immigration ban includes green card holders

[Rev. Rye]

http://thehill.com/policy/national-secur...ers-report

President Trump’s executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. also applies to green card holders from those countries, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday.
 
"It will bar green card holders," acting DHS spokeswoman Gillian Christensen told Reuters.
 
Green cards serve as proof of an individual’s permanent legal residence in the U.S.
 
Trump signed an executive action Friday halting the country’s Syrian refugee resettlement program and barring people from certain Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the U.S. for 120 days.
 
The administration says the halt in the resettlement program is designed to give it time to tighten the vetting process for refugees. The order also gives Christian refugees priority in the resettlement process.
 
“If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians,” Trump said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network on Friday. “And I thought it was very, very unfair,” he continued. “So we are going to help them.”

A Pew Research Center report found that the U.S. admitted nearly equal number of Muslim and Christian refugees in 2016.

As a candidate, Trump campaigned on a promise of cracking down on the country’s refugee program, arguing that terrorists could hide among refugees as a way of gaining entrance to the U.S.

At different points, he also called for a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the country and the creation of a Muslim registry.

Can somebody explain how the hell this is legal?

Simple. He wants to do it, he's President, nobody's stopping him, therefore it's legal. Really, Trump's actions have made abundantly clear even before announcing his run for the presidency that he cares naught for the law, and now, he's not only one of the richest men on Earth, he's the Fucking President of the United States of Fucking America, so there's very little chance that he's changed for the better.

Quoth Thucydides: "You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."  (History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V, 5.89.1)