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.
Community leaders react to Trumps immigration order