Trump turns away the huddled masses

President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries has caused chaos.

830-Trump-1200

Donald Trump: an "unreconstructed Neanderthal"
(Image credit: Copyright (c) 2017 Rex Features. No use without permission.)

President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US and suspending America's refugee programme. This has caused chaos in the immigration system and at airports both in the US and abroad, says Liam Stack in The New York Times. The order has been condemned by the former president, Barack Obama, at least 100 American diplomats and the acting attorney general, Sally Yates. She said it was unlawful and was promptly fired. After initially refusing to condemn the ban, Theresa May issued a statement saying she does not agree with the policy and will not be adopting a similar approach.

Subscribe to MoneyWeek

Subscribe to MoneyWeek today and get your first six magazine issues absolutely FREE

Get 6 issues free
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/mw70aro6gl1676370748.jpg

Sign up to Money Morning

Don't miss the latest investment and personal finances news, market analysis, plus money-saving tips with our free twice-daily newsletter

Don't miss the latest investment and personal finances news, market analysis, plus money-saving tips with our free twice-daily newsletter

Sign up
Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.