• Angelina Jolie: Refugee Policy Should Be Based on 'Facts, Not Fear'

  American filmmaker, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie, who also serves as a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, stated in an opinion-editorial in the New York Times Thursday it is simply not true that U.S. borders are overrun, or that refugees are admitted to the United States without close scrutiny.

  

• 'Refugees Are Already Vigorously Vetted' Says Former Homeland Security Immigration Officer

  "The only explanation for this [immigration/travel ban] order is that refugees are being used by the president to appeal to his base at the expense of U.S. security," stated Natasha Hall, a former immigration officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in an opinion piece published Tuesday in The Washington Post. "Such a move is not only despicable and devastating to the people who desperately crave the safety of our country -- it erodes the American legal system by turning it into a

  

• Michigan Man Claiming Mom in Iraq Died Due to Trump's Immigration Ban Is Accused of Lying

  A mosque leader in Dearborn, Mich., confirmed that a man who claimed his mother died in Iraq after being barred from returning to the United States under a travel and immigration ban instituted by President Donald Trump this weekend made false claims about when her actual death occurred.

• Church Political Limits, IRS Rule Via Johnson Amendment May Be Repealed by Trump

  Proclaiming that he believes U.S. religious freedom is "under threat," President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal a rarely enforced IRS rule that indicates pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit risk losing their tax-exempt status.

  

• Liberty University's President Jerry Falwell Jr. to Lead Trump’s Higher Education Task Force

  Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., son of the late televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr., was tapped by President Donald Trump to lead a task force to reform the U.S. Department of Education.