Two Harvard students barred from entering country - even after court order

Some citations please.

There are additional protests happening before then. There's a pro-immigration rally at Somerville High this weekend, for example.

Whole agencies are refusing to comply with the judiciary's orders. It's pretty scary.

Should find their bootstraps...

even if one were to agree with all of your points, these are reasons to restructure the processing of applications for legal immigration to this country, not reasons to ban all immigrants from 7 randomly picked Muslim-majority countries on a Friday afternoon without the approval of congress, the senate, or the judicial system.

There are a lot of things that could be improved with the immigration process. Specifically, we could make a better system for the laborers who come over the border with Mexico to do so in a legally and well-documented way. As it is, US companies rely on that labor and would crumble without it, but because there is no good system in place, the laborers themselves have to come over illegally and hope that they don't get caught, and they have no legal recourse to get healthcare through proper channels, so they put a huge strain on the emergency rooms, rather than getting preventive medicine early (also, incidentally, they pay taxes that go into our Welfare system without any way to draw benefits in the future, so I have to disagree with your idea that they're a drain on it). But the only fix to this issue Trump has proposed is to build a wall...that won't keep them out anyway.

The process to get a greencard is already extensive, thorough, expensive, and very long. You get vetted into the ground, even if you're from a predominantly white, predominantly Christian nation. If you come here from the Middle East post-9/11, it certainly isn't any easier.

The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of things in our immigration policy that can be improved. But it's delicate work that requires a lot of sense, discussion, and forethought. And the people who are coming here to study science at our top universities are not the ones we need to worry about. They are the ones who will be creating jobs and improving American industry when they graduate.

Trump's policy is so misguided, so overreaching, and so unnecessary, and he did it in a way that made it so even the DHS didn't know what was going on--the agency specifically tasked with keeping our homeland safe.

It was stupid policy stupidly done with real and irreversible impacts on the lives of people who are here legally and on the US citizens who love them. And to pretend that it's valid because there are issues with our current immigration system is like saying that burning down your house is justified because you don't like the color of the drapes.

Their lives are here - their beds, clothes, pets, bank accounts, etc are there. They have been vetted and given legal access to live here and trusted that. My parents moved here when I was a kid and I had a green card for years before being naturalized so I've had an FBI file on me since I was at least 16. I have been fingerprinted and photographed and investigated. If I'd been kept at the border with a legal green card because of racist edict, my life would be ruined. I would have been able to find shelter with friends with the clothes in my luggage but my job would be lost, I would be evicted, my belongings seized, my pets would die before I could get back (under the recent enforcement "rules") and that would only happen IF they didn't force me to permanently "voluntarily" relinquish my green card status, as they did to two TEENAGERS while denying them counsel before deporting them. Shameful!!