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Community leaders react to Trumps immigration order
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Demonstrators on Sunday hold signs at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.
President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration order continued to elicit mixed reactions locally as the debate also raged in Washington and across the country. Trump on Monday fired Sally Yates, the acting attorney general and a Democratic appointee, after she refused to defend in court his controversial refugee and immigration ban. The extraordinary public clash over Trump’s most consequential policy decision to date laid bare the discord and dissent surrounding the executive order, which temporarily halted the entire U.S. refugee program and banned all entries from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days.