No, The Muslim Travel Ban Does Not Only Affect 109

From Politico's Morning Edition

CONFUSION DEEPENS OVER TRUMP'S TRAVEL BAN: "Uncertainty about President Donald Trump's "extreme vetting" policies continued to roil travelers, airlines and foreign governments Monday, as U.S. immigration officials made decisions on the fly about how to apply the directives - despite White House attempts to downplay the fallout," POLITICO's Ted Hesson and Jennifer Scholtes report. 

Three days in, "lawyers were still struggling to reach clients being questioned at U.S. ports of entry," they write. "Meanwhile, customs agents were handling entries for green-card holders on a case-by-case basis, and European governments were giving conflicting instructions to people with dual nationalities - both topics on which the Trump administration had sent decidedly mixed signals." More for Pros here.

NO, THE TRAVEL BAN DOESN'T AFFECT ONLY 109: The Trump administration is beguiled by the number 109. Trump mentioned it in a tweet Monday morning ("Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held"), then Sean Spicer repeated it at the daily press briefing ("Remember we're talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 325,000 people that came into this country over a 24-hour period from another country. 109 of them were stopped for additional screening").

But the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler says the 109 figure is "rather dubious." Federal officials haven't responded to requests for updates on the number of people detained in airports, Kessler notes, and even if they did, that number wouldn't tell the whole story. It omits, for example, the 348 people who weren't permitted to board their planes from the time the executive order was signed through 6 p.m. Sunday. Nor does it include a reported 200 to 250 people who made it onto the plane but were not permitted U.S. entry once their planes landed.

The total universe of visa holders from the seven majority-Muslim countries targeted by the order who could be affected, Kessler writes, numbers more like 90,000. "According to State Department statistics, that's how many people received either nonimmigrant or immigrant visas from the seven affected countries in fiscal year 2015 ... . it serves as a usable proxy for the likely universe of people affected by Trump's travel ban," Kessler writes. More from the Post here.

Activists Oppose Trump's Executive Orders

County Supervisor Phil Serna 

"In a display of solidarity, leaders representing a broad spectrum of Sacramento’s faith and political communities rallied Thursday against President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders expanding the identification and deportation of undocumented immigrants." Jan. 25, 2017. 

From the CAIR Facebook page.  The news conference is on their Facebook page.

City Councilman Eric Guerra speaking.

Leaders and activists spoke directly opposing the executive orders threatening the Muslim and immigrant communities, saying “An injury to one is an injury to all.”  

Duane Campbell, Dolores Delgado-Campbell

Anti Muslim bigotry - value voters

Bryan Fischer, the "Director of Issues Analysis" for the American Family Association, wrote a blog post yesterday that argues that "Germany is giving us a template on how we handle Muslims: just like we handle neo-Nazis," which amounts to German police carrying "out 30 predawn raids against the nation's largest neo-Nazi group two days ago."

Fischer is known for his Islamophobia, previously arguing that the U.S. should have "no more mosques, period," because "every single mosque is a potential terror training center or recruitment center for jihad" and thus "you cannot claim first amendment protections if your religious organization is engaged in subversive activities."

On his Renew America blog, Fischer wrote that "German authorities are determined to 'stamp out' this movement because it is 'potentially violent.'"