Academics nationwide this weekend swiftly condemned an executive order signed by President Trump that, among other things, bars citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States for at least 90 days.
Scholars voiced grave concerns about the order, which singled out people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, and also suspended all refugee admissions to the United States for at least 120 days. Syrian refugees were barred indefinitely.
