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Hello, welcome to the Weeds Vox's Policy Podcast on the Penetly Network.

I'm Matthew Glaciast, joined as usual by my colleague Ezra Klein,

and we have brought in special guest, Dar Lind, for a special episode.

Of the Weeds, we are here to talk about some drastic events happening in immigration policy over the weekend.

Donald Trump issued an executive order which immediately threw everyone into a state of chaos and confusion.

Maybe Dar can start us off by just recapping what did this order, what did it say?

Sure, so there are two major components to the order.

There's a lot of stuff that is going to get worked out over the next few months.

But immediately what the order did was it banned all refugees from arriving in the US for 120 days,

with some small exceptions, for example, if they're persecuted religious minorities, they're supposed to be able to come.

And it banned all immigrants, visa holders, refugees, etc, from seven majority Muslim countries.

Those are Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.

And so anyone in either of those two circles upon arriving in the US was supposed to be sent back home.

They weren't even supposed to be able to get on planes to the US.

And so when, in fact, people were arriving in the US because they had been scheduled to do so,

it caused massive panic as they were being detained at airports,

being coerced in designing deportation papers, and being in many cases prevented from seeing lawyers,

which was both kind of a very dramatic demonstration of what the executive order was doing,

and also kind of just the tip of the iceberg.

Because of course, many people have been prevented from getting to the US at all over the next three months

in the case of the country bands and four months in the case of the refugee band.

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