Friday, June 30, 2017

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Must listen to.. On Contact: Female Erasure with Maya Dillard Smith and Mary Lou Singleton

Please listen in particularly to the two ladies towards the middle. This is very crucial knowledge as it affects our children, and their future. Suicide is at an all time high amongst trans gendered people.

Daniel's Timeline! The tribulation has begun...

Gen 6:3 Wycliffe translation uses the word DWELL ,not strive on contend..Therefore, meaning of verse actually indicates that God will live in man 120 years.. 120 jubilees that is and no more. After age of grace , it will return to the age of the Law once again. Departure/ rapture of the bride this year. We are the generation of the fig tree.

WELCOME TO THE END TIMES 2017

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Vancouver driver hits construction flag person.

Please be careful driving this long weekend and always.. This person hit 2 people, one on either side of it's vehicle. Both people are in critical condition in hospital. The driver fled the scene.

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Malta becomes 1st European country to ban gay conversion therapy

Malta becomes 1st European country to ban gay conversion therapy

Malta becomes 1st European country to ban gay conversion therapy
Malta’s parliament has unanimously voted to ban gay conversion therapy, becoming the first European country to make the controversial practice illegal.
The Affirmation of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Bill was unanimously supported by MPs in the Maltese Parliament on Monday.
The bill labeled it “deceptive and harmful” and any medical professional practicing or advertising the controversial therapy will be fined up to $5,000 or jailed for up to five years.
Gay conversion therapy attempts to “cure” a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual through various methods including inducing vomiting, shaming and even electric shock therapy.
The bill also states no sexual orientation or gender identity can be considered a disorder or shortcoming of any kind, and that anyone sixteen or older can undergo gender reassignment without a court order or parental approval, the Times of Malta reported.
Malta is the best European country for LGBT equality, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
Malta Chamber of Psychologists welcomed the decision, describing the practice as “inhumane.”
“The Malta Chamber of Psychologists (MCP), The Maltese Association of Psychiatry (MAP), The Malta Association of Family Therapy & Systemic Practice (MAFT–SP), as well as the Malta Association for the Counselling Profession (MACP) are together, very proud to have played an integral part in the drafting of this bill ... which openly disapproves of practices which are harmful to people in our community,” it said.
In the US, five states have banned the practice, but a bill named after vice president-elect Mike Pence has been introduced to ban the therapy in New York’s Erie County.

House Passes 'Kate's Law" and "no Sanctuary for Criminals Act'

House passes ‘Kate’s Law’ and ‘No Sanctuary for Criminals Act’ targeting illegal immigration

House passes ‘Kate’s Law’ and ‘No Sanctuary for Criminals Act’ targeting illegal immigration
Two immigration bills have passed the House, mostly along party lines. Two dozen Democrats voted with the GOP on “Kate’s Law” to impose tougher sentences on illegal re-entry into the US, while another vote on “sanctuary cities” was even more partisan.
On Thursday, the House passed HR 3004, known as “Kate’s Law,” which would impose mandatory minimum sentences on previously removed illegal immigrants who return to the United States.
The bill passed with a 257-167 vote. One Republican voted against the bill, and 24 Democrats voted for it.

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Student in Kharagpur takes their life; third incident in four months

IIT-Kharagpur student commits suicide; third incident in four months

West Midnapore Superintendent of Police (SP) Bharati Ghosh said a probe is on and they will also examine the suicide note.
Kharagpur: A fourth-year aerospace engineering student of IIT-Kharagpur, Nidhin, was found hanging from the ceiling of his ground floor room at Nehru Hall B Block on Saturday.
The body has been sent for post-mortem, even as institute authorities declined to comment.
Police reached the campus, broke open the door, to recover Nidhin`s body.
West Midnapore Superintendent of Police (SP) Bharati Ghosh said a probe is on and they will also examine the suicide note.
This is the third student to commit suicide this year.

The IIT campus reported the first suicide on January 16, when Lokesh Meena from Rajasthan jumped on the tracks and was hit by a train at Jakpur station.
The second suicide took place on March 30, when the body of a youth from Andhra Pradesh, Sana Sree Raj, was found on the train tracks, barely 500 metres from the IIT campus.

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Trudeau sends globalist message on Canada’s 150th birthday

How Sad.. We need a new leader so badly..

FBI Agent Indicted for Lying About the Lavoy Finicum Murder

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The Future is here

    The future is here!

- Hello! Gordon's Pizza?
- No sir, it is Google Pizza.
- So, I have the wrong number?
- No sir, Google bought Gordon's Pizza.
- OK. Take my order please ..
- Well sir, you want the usual?
- The usual? How do you know me?
- According to your caller ID, the last 12 times, you ordered pizza with cheese, sausage, thick crust ...
- OK! OK! That's it.
- Sir, may I suggest to you this time ricotta cheese, arugula with sun-dried tomatoes?
- No, I hate vegetables.
- But your cholesterol is high!
- How do you know?
- Through the Lab subscriber's guide. We have the results of your blood tests for the last 7 years.
- Okay, but I want my regular pizza, I already take medicine.
- But sir, you have not taken your medicine regularly. Four months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 tablets at Drugsale Network.
- I bought more from another drugstore.
- It is not showing on your credit card.
- I paid in cash.
- But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your bank statement.
- I have other sources of cash.
- This is not showing on your last Income-Tax return, unless you got it from an undeclared source.
- WHAT THE HELL? Enough! I'm sick of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp. I'm going to an Island without Wi-Fi or internet. Where there are no cell phones or satellites to spy on me.
- I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport, as it has expired 5 weeks ago!

Interest rates on the rise.

Interest rates are going up in Canada and ?? I will forward this to my daughter , as they will be looking for a home of their own

..below are a few great articles that pretty much confirms that the BoC is set to raise interest rates on July 12th 2017 and most likely again in January 2018. Markets ‘bashed over the head’ as Bank of Canada hints at rate hike http://www.bnn.ca/markets-bashed-over-the-head-as-bank-of-canada-hints-at-rate-hike-1.791440 Loonie notches biggest gain since March as BoC rate hike bets jump http://www.bnn.ca/loonie-notches-biggest-gain-since-march-as-boc-rate-hike-bets-jump-1.791036 Poloz reiterates low rates have 'done their job'...."I think they've made it clear that they're ready to move," BMO's Benjamin Reitzes said. http://www.bnn.ca/poloz-reiterates-low-rates-have-done-their-job-1.791061

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Homeschooled

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Erica, Liz, Deborah and Sarah
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I home schooled the two eldest when this picture was taken. They attended a one day a week school when music, acting and field trips took place. It is always hard to see the four girls together. They were hard years but so tender and special. You can just see the personalities come through. There is very many pluses for homeschooling your children. There are tons of material in the libraries, and each community has has their own meetings and conferences/book exchanges/ study book/ curriricular exchanges. Very often, Harvard and extablished universities are all looking for homeschooled students, since they have a much more broader knowledge than most school graduates.

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Two More Suicides

Depression

Families blame '13 Reasons Why' for 2 teens' suicides

The grieving families of two California teens who committed suicide in April just days after watching Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” said the show acted as a trigger for their daughters. Bella Herndon, who was three days shy of 16, and Priscilla Chui, who had battled depression and struggled in school, did not know each other, but had watched the show at around the same time and died four days apart.
“It’s very graphic, especially the two-minute scene where she slits her wrists in a bathtub,” Peter Chui, Priscilla’s uncle, told KTVU of the show. “I feel it’s dangerous for that small percentage of young adults who the show can become a trigger for them and I feel as if the show gives only one alternative for cyber bullying and other teenage issues.”
'13 REASONS WHY' MAY NOT BE THE TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION TOOL SOME THINK IT IS
Chui, who lived with his niece in San Mateo, said his niece was battling depression and was having trouble with her grades. Chui said Priscilla, 15, told him he hated school.
“And I feel like the absolute worst adult because I kept forcing her to go to school,” he told KTVU.
Critics of the show, which is based on Jay Asher’s New York Times bestseller and produced by Selena Gomez, have claimed it glamorizes suicide. The series centers on character Hannah Baker and the reasons why she killed herself, which she details in a set of cassette tapes that she mails to her classmates.
Brain Yorkey, the show’s writer, has defended the series’ message against critics, claiming it portrays suicide in a “very ugly and very damaging” light.
In response to demands from mental health advocates and viewer complaints, in May Netflix added a content warning before the first episode of the series in addition to two others that already existed.T It also strengthened the messaging and resource language in the existing cards.
The series was renewed for a second season, which has angered Bella’s family, who believe there are no positive messages left behind by the show.
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“Don’t go through with the renewal for the second season of ’13 Reasons Why,’” John Hurdon, the teen’s father, told KTVU. “Stop this. This is wrong. You’re making money off the misery of others.”
Netflix released a statement to KTVU expressing condolences for the teens, but said the series has opened up a dialogue for many others.
“Our hearts go out to these families during this difficult time,” the statement said. “We have heard from many viewers that 13 Reasons Why has opened up a dialogue among parents, teens, schools and mental health advocates around the difficult topics depicted in the show. We took extra precautions to alert viewers to the nature of the content and created a global website to help people find local mental health resources.”

Childhood Photo's

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Deborah in her fur coat
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A baby every 2 years

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Updated my 'Why I won't celebrate Canada's 150th birthday..

http://4thentherewas3.blogspot.ca/2017/06/why-i-wont-celebrate-canadas-150th.html

This was added at the bottom:  The icing on the cake is that I cannot refer to a person as he or she, if they happen to identify as opposite to what I perceive.. I can be taken to court and face trial. So if Joe, thinks he is Josephine, and I call her a him, then I AM IN BIG TROUBLE!!
 THANK you PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU for your ungodly leadership and destruction of our nation.

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Deborah on the far right. with her older sisters
I just updated the very popular post on why I will not celebrate Canada day.. Believe me, as a young mom, I took great effort to instill patriotism into my children. We would go to neighborhoods where a street was closed. Going with four children born 2 years apart was not so easy. The girls attended a Mennonite pre-school near Killarney Gardens. They had battery operated children's cars which seated two, and pony rides, and Barbecues, and flags, and donuts and coffee. I loved how the Mennonite church in Vancouver would bring this sweet pony in from a farm and made a lovely feature to the city kids in the early 90's. I don't know if there is any other communities making memories like this, but I was all into this. One time we went into the city for fireworks. 
Now, as an older adult, I see more. I sense more. I pick things apart, and look for motives. Too cautious you think? I watch for subliminal, I analyze, I pray, and seek truth. It is not an easy journey, but I find it is all I can do: be Sober, be Awake for the Deceiver, roaring Lion is waiting to devour us, literally.

1 Peter 5:8New International Version (NIV)

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Now Memories of Deborah's Youth

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By this age she was playing her violin and piano
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In front of the co-op we lived in for 7 years

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Newly-Immigrated Muslim Women Honor Killed in Sweeden

Newly-Immigrated Muslim Women Honor Killed in Sweden

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A growing phenomenon of honor killings in Sweden is being reported among newly-arrived Muslim women.  The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published one such report, detailing the murder of a young mother named Bina who immigrated to Sweden from Iran.
Seven months after Bina (not her real name) arrived in Mariannelund, she was killed by her husband after she decided to separate from him and remove her hijab.
Bina was one of six women killed in 2016 shortly after arriving in Sweden.
Gan Heimer, a professor at The National Center for Knowledge on Men’s Violence Against Women based at Uppsala University, said that this is a new situation in Sweden that needs to be monitored.
Bina was just 21 years old when she was murdered. She came to Sweden with two of her older sisters and their families in November 2015. They were all placed in different refugee centers. Bina, her husband – who was also her cousin –and baby daughter were settled by the Swedish authorities in Mariannelund. By the following summer, she was dead.
Her two older sisters told the police that after they came to Sweden they both wanted to separate from their husbands, take off their hijabs. They asked the authorities for help to find a place they would be safe. Their sister, Bina, wanted to do the same.
Bina had tried to separate from her husband even before they left Iran because he was beating her. But her family had prevented her from so doing. In Mariannelund, Bina took off her hijab, a decision which her husband said he accepted. But one of her sisters, as well as other relatives, later said he was lying and felt insulted.
“He thought that other people were making fun of him — it was a matter of honor,” said a close friend of Bina’s during the investigation after her murder.
Bina’s husband was a religious fanatic, said a family member. Yet another family member said, “We came here far from oppression, but some people have difficulty living freely.”
After he murdered her, Bina’s husband put a hijab on her face and neck.
The court sentenced Bina’s husband to 17 years in prison after which time he will be deported from Sweden.

Why I won't celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday

This week I hope to go for a walk with a mother who lost a teenage son to homicide, in Vancouver.  Even-though, many are thinking of Canada Day Celebrations of 150 years;  on the forefront of my minds is to comfort those who have suffered great loss. I think that Canada has become a poor nation. Spiritually, and financially..By what authority do I speak you may ask? Well I'm an immigrant too who had fled the iron curtain to wait in a refugee camp as a child. I did not get to choose what country I land in, nor did my parents. Canada  is deprived, naked and poor, but does not realize it. It is no longer a land of opportunity. People are enticed to come here with higher education and money, but find that they have to go back to school for years and years. Meanwhile they are doing a janitor's job or some very hard labour for very low wages. The pomp of the moment hides the fact that women who come here with the promise of marriage alone, won't be able to access any of the services they require if the relationship fails. The high epidemic of opioid addictions, and homelessness only crowns the country with shame. Even today one group of homeless people in the downtown core were facing eviction, and have overnight moved to an empty lot near the sugar factory. They have been living in tent cities for a decade or more.
The news hour shows of red dresses and menu's and desserts and camping equipment,  tarnish the reality of what it is to live in a safe country. Our country has embraced special privileges for certain nationalities.  Canada is not safe. We have lost much of our freedoms and free speech. Sharia law is just around the corner if passive Canadian's not get active in social issues. We had immigration not primarily from Syria, but from Libya and other African nations, to the burden of our citizens, here and in Europe. The lack of resources for our own Native Indigenous people many of whom live in appalling conditions is also the shame of our land,young people taking their lives by the masses.  Canada is now stripped of it's natural resources as we ship it in it's rawest form from our ports. 
As a nation, we continue funding abortions not only here but internationally. The blood of the innocent are on our hands. Since President Trump mentioned cutting back on these abortion funded facilities, Canada has upped the contribution by hundreds of millions. The icing on the cake is that I cannot refer to a person as he or she, if they happen to identify as opposite to what I perceive.. I can be taken to court and face trial. So if Joe, thinks he is Josephine, and I call her a him, then I AM IN BIG TROUBLE!!
 THANK you PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU for your ungodly leadership and destruction of our nation.

Trump breaks with White House Ramadan Tradition

Trump Breaks With White House Ramadan Tradition

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President Donald Trump and Sec. Ben Carson (AP)
By Solange Reyner   |   Saturday, 24 Jun 2017 10:41 PM
Ramadan wasn’t recognized in the White House with an iftar or Eid celebration for the first time in nearly two decades, The Washington Post reports.
A holy month of fasting between dawn and dusk, prayer and introspection for Muslims, Ramadan was observed from May 26 through June 24 this year. Muslims break their daily fast by sharing meals with family and friends before dawn and after sunset, referred to as iftar, and the end of Ramadan is celebrated with a three-day festival known as Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam’s major holidays.
“Muslims in the United States joined those around the world during the holy month of Ramadan to focus on acts of faith and charity,” a statement from the White House read. “Now, as they commemorate Eid with family and friends, they carry on the tradition of helping neighbors and breaking bread with people from all walks of life. During this holiday, we are reminded of the importance of mercy, compassion, and goodwill. With Muslims around the world, the United States renews our commitment to honor these values. Eid Mubarak.”
President Thomas Jefferson started the tradition in 1805 when a Tunisian envoy to the United States, Sidi Soliman Mellimelli, was in the U.S. during America’s conflict with the Barbary States. Mellimelli was observing Ramadan and Jefferson invited guests to join him for a dinner served at sunset. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama had also recognized Ramadan.

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Supreme Court Allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect

Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump’s travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall

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The many trials and tweets of Trump's travel ban
Amid multiple court battles and damaging tweets, the Supreme Court is allowing a limited version of President Trump's travel ban to take effect as it gears up to hear the case in the fall. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
The Supreme Court on Monday permitted a scaled-back version of President Trump’s ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect, deciding to hear the merits of the case in the fall but allowing Trump for now to claim a victory in the legal showdown.
The court’s unsigned order delivered a compromise neither side had asked for: It said the government may not bar those with a “bona fide” connection to the United States, such as having family members here, or a job or a place in an American university.
But the justices indicated that lower courts had gone too far in completely freezing Trump’s order banning new visas for citizens of six countries — Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — for 90 days and putting the refu­gee program on hold for 120 days.
“The Government’s interest in enforcing [the executive order], and the Executive’s authority to do so, are undoubtedly at their peak when there is no tie between the foreign national and the United States,” the court wrote.
Trump called the ruling “a clear victory for our national security.” In a statement, he said: “As president, I cannot allow people into our country who want to do us harm. I want people who can love the United States and all of its citizens, and who will be hardworking and productive.”
He added that he was “particularly gratified that the Supreme Court’s decision was 9-0.”
The president said last week that the order would go into effect 72 hours after being approved by the courts.
In the opinion, the court said it will hear arguments in the case — which raises fundamental questions about religious discrimination and the president’s broad powers to protect the nation — when it reconvenes in October.
In the meantime, the justices nudged the Trump administration to get on with what it said would be a temporary pause to review vetting procedures.
“We fully expect that the relief we grant today will permit the Executive to conclude its internal work and provide adequate notice to foreign governments” within 90 days, the court said.
That means that by the time the court takes up the case in the fall, circumstances could be quite different. Depending on the results of the review, Trump could push to extend the measure or even make it permanent.
The court also told lawyers to address whether the justices’ consideration of the case in the fall might be moot, because administration officials will have had time to review vetting procedures.
Leon Fresco, who served as deputy assistant attorney general for the office of immigration litigation in President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, said the limited travel ban seems to affect two types of people who don’t necessarily have ties to the United States: those seeking U.S. visas as visitors and those trying to get visas through a government lottery meant for people from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.
The State Department would not say how many visa seekers the ban would affect.
Anyone with a school acceptance letter, job offer or family member already here would probably be able to obtain a visa and travel as normal.
Interpretations of the court’s decision diverged widely among immigration lawyers and advocates.
Some, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, suggested that the decision would allow for “only the narrowest” implementation of the travel ban, affecting very few would-be travelers from the six countries.
But other groups, such as Amnesty International USA, warned of grave consequences, such as a renewal of “chaos” at airports and an enforcement of the ban that would “tear families apart.”
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch would have let the ban take effect as the Trump administration crafted it, and Thomas wrote that the court had made an “implicit conclusion that the Government has made a strong showing that it is likely to succeed on the merits.”
The court’s revised order will “burden executive officials with the task of deciding — on peril of contempt — whether individuals from the six affected nations who wish to enter the United States have a sufficient connection to a person or entity in this country,” Thomas wrote.
Such a compromise, he wrote, will lead to a “flood of litigation” over what constitutes a “bona fide relationship.”
The travel ban has been a major point of contention between Trump and civil rights groups, which say it is motivated by unconstitutional discrimination against Muslims.
Trump contends that the ban is necessary to protect the nation while the administration decides whether tougher vetting procedures and other measures are needed. He has railed against federal judges who have blocked the move.
Because the executive order was stopped by lower courts, travelers from those countries have been entering the United States following normal visa procedures. Trump initially moved to implement the restrictions in January, in his first week in office.
His first executive order went into effect immediately and resulted in chaos at airports in the United States and abroad as travelers from the targeted nations were stranded or sent back to their countries.
Lawyers for challengers to the order rushed to federal courts, and the order was stayed within days. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit eventually said the order could not be implemented, infuriating the president, who said he would take the case to the Supreme Court.
Instead, his administration regrouped and issued a second order in March. It added a section detailing national security concerns, removed Iraq from the list of countries affected, deleted a section that had targeted Syrian refugees and removed a provision that favored Christian immigrants.
Trump’s lawyers told courts that the new order was written to respond to the 9th Circuit’s concerns. But new lawsuits were immediately filed, and federal judges once again stopped the implementation.
A federal district judge in Maryland blocked the portion of the order affecting travelers from the six countries. A judge in Hawaii also froze that portion, as well as the part affecting refu­gee programs.
Appeals courts on both coasts upheld those decisions.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond agreed with U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang in Maryland, who sided with opponents in finding that the ban violates the Constitution by intentionally discriminating against Muslims. In a 10-to-3 decision, the appeals court noted Trump’s remarks before and after his election about a ban on Muslims and said the executive order “in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination.”
Meanwhile, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit said Trump had not adhered to federal law under which Congress gives the president broad power in immigration matters. They said that national security is not a “ ‘talismanic incantation’ that, once invoked, can support any and all exercise of executive power.”
In both appeals courts, a minority of conservative judges said their colleagues were making a mistake. Judges should consider only whether the executive orders were proper on their face, they said, without trying to decide whether the president had ulterior motives, and should defer to national security decisions made by the executive branch.
“The Supreme Court surely will shudder at the majority’s adoption of this new rule that has no limits or bounds,” wrote dissenting 4th Circuit Judge Paul V. Niemeyer.
Justice, Homeland Security and State department officials said they were still studying the decision to determine exactly who it affects and how it might be carried out.
The Supreme Court’s opinion seems unlikely to re-create the chaos that ensued after Trump issued his first travel ban, causing tens of thousands of visas to be revoked and some travelers to be detained and sent away from U.S. airports.
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Trump already had rescinded and revised his first order so that it affected only the issuance of new visas, and the justices left intact an even more limited version. Advocates nonetheless said they would deploy people to watch for potential abuses.
“The court’s decision threatens damage to vulnerable people waiting to come to the U.S.: people with urgent medical conditions blocked, innocent people left adrift, all of whom have been extensively vetted,” said former British foreign secretary David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee.
After Monday’s court ruling, Trump issued his low-key statement through normal White House channels.
That was in contrast to his thunderous Twitter offerings when courts previously disagreed with him. He wrote in one such post: “People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!”
Abigail Hauslohner and Ann E. Marimow contributed to this report