Here Today project quotes Trump on #RefugeeBan: ‘It’s not going to be pretty’

“Here Today,” our just-finished digital storytelling project in Paris, gives a human backstory and predicts the chaos that erupted after an executive order on immigration signed by President Donald Trump last Friday.

The order, which shut down America’s refugee resettlement program for 120 days and bars travel by non-U.S. citizens from seven countries with majority Muslim populations, was signed by President Trump on Friday.

The countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, but not Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population, Pakistan, where 9/11 mastermind and al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed by U.S. special forces, or Saudi Arabia, from which 15 of the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks came to the U.S.

On Saturday, protests erupted at airports throughout the U.S., including JFK Airport in New York and San Francisco International Airport.

A federal judge in Brooklyn issued a temporary restraining order Saturday evening preventing refugees with valid visa documents from being deported back to their home countries.

“Here Today” was produced in collaboration with the American School of Paris, and the Association Pierre Claver, a school for refugees seeking asylum in France.

ASP student Elizabeth Lay produced an opinion e-book for the project that previewed how Trump’s campaign statements could lead to policy.

“We have no idea who these people are, where they come from,” Lay quoted Trump as saying during an Aug. 31 speech in Phoenix. Trump’s speech specifically addressed the U.S. Syrian refugee resettlement program.

“I always say, Trojan horse,” Trump said. “Watch what’s going to happen. It’s not going to be pretty.”

Click here for “Here Today” and watch GSS for continuing coverage on the Trump immigration order.

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