people from seven majority muslim countries and blocks all refugee resettlement, but indefinitely blocks syrian refugee resettlement and in the order, he actually makes a case by case exception for people who belong to religious minorities in their home countries and the president himself said it on friday. that p provision is intended to help christians immigrate to the united states. it says to prioritize claims made by individuals on the basis of religious based persecution provided the religion is a minority religion in the individual s country of nationality. but people who support him say this is his prerogative to try to protect the country and that s going to hold in a curt of law. but you re sure it won t. we re sure it won t because what president trump is trying to do in banning muslims from the ice is con tear to our core founding values. america is a country where
the thin blue line is getting thinner across america. the justice department reporting today 12,000 police officers will lose their jobs this year, maybe more. it s the first decline in law enforcement jobs in america in 25 years. when president obama sent his american jobs act to congress, it included $35 billion for keeping teachers, cops and firefighters on the job across the country. republicans in the senate blocked the jobs act. although americans overwhelmingly say they want congress to keep cops and firefighters and teachers on the job, when last week president obama put that one super popular p provision into a new smaller bill, the senate rejected it yet again. showing every sign that president obama gets that congress is not going to pass his jobs act either in big chunks or bite-sized pieces, the white house today rolled out a new agenda for trying to help the economy. a new agenda that can get at least some things done without the help of republicans in congress. president