When ive heard that first trial balloon a few weeks ago from carl higbee, a surrogate for the trumpet administration, from the trump transition team, i knew exactly what was going to be coming down. He talked about a muslim registry, which was a chilling echo for me because, back in the 40s, they had a japaneseamerican database. They are using the word registry, but it is the same thing that came down on us, a database, where they knew where we were, how many lived in that household, and what we did. After they had the database, they came down with a curfew. All japaneseamericans had to be home by 7 00 p. M. And stay at home until 6 00 a. M. We were imprisoned at night in our homes. And then we discovered that our Bank Accounts were frozen. Our life savings became inaccessible. And that was followed by the soldiers coming to take us away. That must never happen again today. [applause] of thatn watch the rest event from the Muslim Public Affairs council tonight at nine eastern here on c
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london and 8pm in washington, where President Trump has become embroiled in a bitter battle with the american legal system. A federal Appeals Court on sunday refused to reinstate his controversial travel ban, on people from seven mainly muslim countries, entering the united states. It was a judge in seattle whod originally put a temporary stop to the policy, and the president has accused him of putting the country in peril. Our north america correspondent nick bryant has more. The rush to reach America Arrivals from mainly muslim countries making it through immigration after an Appeals Court rejected a move by the Trump Administration to reimpose its travel ban. So, impromptu celebrations at us airports, and relief for those looking to head across the atlantic. Tonight, Atjfk Airport in new york, this family from iraq finally made it into the country. Theyd spent two years obtaining us visas, and had packed up their lives in iraq. The embassy
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london and 8pm in washington, where President Trump has become embroiled in a bitter battle with the american legal system. A federal Appeals Court on sunday refused to reinstate his controversial travel ban, on people from seven mainly muslim countries, entering the united states. It was a judge in seattle whod originally put a temporary stop to the policy, and the president has accused him of putting the country in peril. Our north america correspondent nick bryant has more. The rush to reach America Arrivals from mainly muslim countries making it through immigration after an Appeals Court rejected a move by the Trump Administration to reimpose its travel ban. So, impromptu celebrations at us airports, and relief for those looking to head across the atlantic. Tonight, Atjfk Airport in new york, this family from iraq finally made it into the country. Theyd spent two years obtaining us visas, and had packed up their lives in iraq. The embassy
The mcallen theater at the National Archives. On the archivist of the United States and its a pleasure to welcome you here this evening. Whether you were joining us physically in our theater or watching on youtube, or joining us with our friends from cspan2, welcome. At the bill of rights day. Since Franklin Roosevelt first on december 15, 1941, it has served as reminder we should not take for granted the right to protect this document. Is a constitutional sources project and we thank them for their support. Forward begin tonights discussion let me tell you but to programs coming up the next month. Noon,sday, january 17 at we will talk about the new book three days in january Dwight Eisenhowers final mission about his prophetic farewell address. At noon on the next two days, january 18 at january 19, well show selection of films. We will focus on inaugural events. Programs and exhibitions can be found on our monthly calendar in print or online at archives. Gov. There are also copies in
Students can work o loan or in a group of up to three to produce a five to seven minute documentary. A grand prize of 5,000 will go to the student or team with the best overall enry. 100,000 in cash prizes will be award and shared between 150 students and 53 teachers. January 20, 2017, our deadline. For more information about the competition, go to our website. Next, a discussion on how Senate Republicans handle the Merrick Garland nomination and whats ahead for the Supreme Court. This is about 90 minutes. Good afternoon. Im jenny sloan, the president of the constitution project. I want to welcome you all here today. The constitution project specializes in creating bipartisan consensus on controversial constitutional issues. It has been a tough go for all of us over the past several months but the constitution project has been able to continue to create this bipartisan consensus. We expect that we are going to be able to do so over the next four years, eight years and beyond. So we are