CAIR: Council labels UMass ‘hostile campus’ for Muslim, Palestinian students over handling of 2024 encampment – Daily Hampshire Gazette
CAIR: Trump banned citizens of 12 countries from entering the U.S. Here’s what to know – Associated Press
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called the order “unnecessary, overbroad and ideologically motivated.”
CAIR-SFBA: President Trump issues travel ban on 12 countries, places restrictions on 7 – NBC
Video: CAIR-SFBA Condemns Trump’s Expanded Travel Ban as Discriminatory and Ideologically Motivated
CAIR: President Trump bans travel from 12 nations, partially restricts entry from seven others – USA Today
Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad said the government already vets visa applicants extensively. The new order risks separating families, depriving students of educational opportunities and blocking patients from unique medical treatment, he said.
“President Trump‘s new travel ban targeting mostly Muslim and African nations and raising the specter of more vague free speech restrictions is overbroad, unnecessary and ideologically motivated,” Awad said. “Automatically banning students, workers, tourists, and other citizens of these targeted nations from coming to the United States will not make our nation safer.”
CAIR: What to know about Trump’s order to restrict travel from 19 countries – Washington Post
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, noted in a statement that this ban “contains several important exceptions,” including for anyone who has legal status and immediate family members of U.S. citizens looking to immigrate. This “makes the ban less extreme than the two original Muslim Bans that President Trump enacted during his first term before successful lawsuits blocked their implementation,” CAIR said. Still, CAIR’s National Executive Director Nihad Awad called the ban “unnecessary, overbroad and ideologically motivated.”
CAIR: Crackdown on Muslims and immigrants widens following Colorado attack – The New Arab
“This attack on the Run for Our Lives march in Boulder was a heinous and unacceptable crime. The person who perpetrated this violence in Boulder is a criminal whose unacceptable actions do not, in any way, represent the countless Americans of diverse backgrounds who are peacefully advocating for an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Peaceful protests, political engagement, and civil disobedience are the only ways to change policies in our nation,” said the Council on American-Islamic Relations in a public statement.
The group continued its statement by predicting the backlash that would ensue in the coming days.
“As we speak out against this unacceptable crime in Boulder, we also reject the cynical attempts by anti-Palestinian racists and anti-Muslim extremists who seek to use this attack to justify their own bigotry and their war on free speech in America,” they said.
CAIR-San Diego: Local faith leaders condemn recent ICE raids at South Park restaurants – FOX 5 San Diego
Speakers represented a wide range of local and national organizations, including the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Latinos en Acción, Universidad Popular and the North County Equity and Justice Coalition.
CAIR-MN: Immigrant rights organizers return to the MN State Capitol to demand: Hands off health care! Health care for all! – Fight Back! News