The Trump administration is not even a month old, and has already ­overwhelmed the news, social media and many private discussions. To cap off his first week in office, the president signed an executive order he called “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” Most of the attention to that order focused on the complete ban of entry to nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries, including refugees, Iraqi nationals who worked with the U.S. military, and even long-time green card holders. Similarly, much ink has been spilled over the botched rollout of the order (it took two days for the administration to clarify that while covered by the order, green card holders and Iraqi special immigrant visa holders would generally have their exclusion waived) and about the subsequent legal challenge and temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Washington ­(recently upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).

After a tumultuous two weeks of ­coverage of the president’s authority to suspend entry “of any aliens or of any class of aliens” and whether that authority is “completely unreviewable” or subject to the limitations of the First Amendment’s establishment clause, some of the broader consequences of the executive order in our local area are becoming clearer.

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