"Late Friday, Trump issued an executive order forbidding millions of refugees, hundreds of thousands of visitors and 500,000 legal immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. Over the following 48 hours, massive protests erupted in cities and airports nationwide, courts temporarily blocked major parts of the order, the administration defied the courts and Democrats called for an investigation into the administration’s defiance. As the weekend drew to a close, an anonymous White House official proclaimed the whole episode a “massive success story.”
"The federal courts thought otherwise. On Saturday night, a judge in Brooklyn ordered the Trump administration to stop deporting refugees and visitors immigration authorities had previously cleared to enter the country. Two judges in Massachusetts ordered that travelers who were legally authorized to be in the United States shouldn’t be detained at or deported from Logan International Airport for a period of seven days. A judge in Seattle halted the deportation of two travelers. And a judge in Virginia issued an order requiring the administration to allow lawyers access to lawful permanent residents — also known as green card holders — whom Customs and Border Protection agents had detained at Dulles International Airport on Trump’s instructions."
READ MORE related to Trump's Muslim Moratorium: GOP senators call executive order a 'self-inflicted wound.' Trump calls them 'wrong' and 'weak' -- L.A. Times' MATT BALLINGER; Trump abandons tough stand on green card holders in face of court challenges -- Sacramento Bee's HANNAH ALLAM/MICHAEL DOYLE/TIM JOHNSON; President Trump's travel ban will leave his business partners untouched -- VOX's LIBBY NELSON; Hope fades for refugees seeking new lives in Sacramento after Trump order -- Sacramento Bee's RYAN LILLIS; California AG and 16 counterparts condemn Trump's refugee ban as unconstitutional -- Sacramento Bee's CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO; Protestors fill Sacramento airport denouncing Trump refugee order -- Sacramento Bee's DARREL SMITH/ANDY FURILLO/JESSICA HICE; More than 1,000 protestors rally at SFO against immigration ban -- The Chronicle's EVAN SERNOFFSKY/JOAQUIN PALOMINI/KURTIS ALEXANDER; Steve Kerr rails against Donald Trump's travel ban -- The Chronicle's CONNOR LETOURNEAU; Protestors block LAX traffic, face off with police as they rally against Trump's travel ban -- L.A. Times' JAMES QUEALLY/JAVIER PANZAR/MATT HAMILTON; When Muslims got blocked at American airports, U.S. veterans rushed to help -- L.A. Times' MATT PEARCE/SHASHANK BENGALI; 75-year-old grandmother from Iran tells the story of her detention at LAX -- L.A. Times' ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN; Trump executive order on immigration shakes Berkeley community -- The Daily Californian
California is pushing back against Trump's anti-science and anti-climate agenda.
L.A. Times' CHRIS MEGERIAN: "With cheese and shrimp cocktail piled on their plates, guests strolled the exhibit like patrons at an art gallery, sipping beer and pausing to ponder the displays that lined the room. But instead of paintings or sculptures, they were examining scientific charts about climate change at a state environmental agency."
"At a time when President Trump’s new administration is ordering federal government scientists to stop communicating with the public, the array of data depicting carbon sequestration, ocean acidification and water temperatures at a conference on climate change was for some a political act of defiance."
"We just have to push even harder than before,” said Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, a UC Berkeley student who brought her research on the electricity grid. “Regardless of what happens in the rest of the country, California is going to stick with clean energy. We can be our own little island."
Silicon Valley is showing its teeth after learning about POTUS45's immigration ban.
N.Y. Times' DAVID STREITFELD/MIKE ISAAC/KATIE BENNER: "On Friday morning, Silicon Valley was largely ambivalent about President Trump. The software programmers, marketing experts and chief executives might not have voted for him, but they were hopeful about finding common ground with the new administration."
"By Saturday night, much of that optimism had yielded to anger and determination."
"Mr. Trump’s executive order late on Friday temporarily blocked all refugees while also denying entry to citizens of Iran, Iraq and five other predominantly Muslim countries. The directives struck at the heart of Silicon Valley’s cherished values, its fabled history and, not least, its embrace-the-world approach to customers. Two worldviews collided: the mantra of globalization that underpins the advance of technology and the nationalistic agenda of the new administration."
READ MORE related to Tech: How tech companies responded to Trump's immigration ban -- The Chronicle's MARISSA LANG
Speaking of travel, a systems outage has resulted in delays and grounding of flights for Delta Air Lines.
Sacramento Bee's GREG HADLEY: "Delta Air Lines announced that it suffered a system outage Sunday night that has delayed all of its flights."
"All flights in the air are unaffected, the airline announced. However, according to social media reports, once those flights have landed, they have been unable to approach the terminal, leaving passengers stranded. The outage began at around 8 p.m."
"As of Sunday night, portions of Delta’s website appear to have crashed, including the company’s flight tracker page. The company’s app is also not working."
Also related to transportation: The DMV, Judicial Council are being hit in a pending suit over fees and fines.
Capitol Weekly's JOHN HOWARD: "A motorist who faced more than $1,600 in fines for a traffic violation is suing the Department of Motor Vehicles and the state Judicial Council in federal court, contending that millions of California drivers had their licenses suspended illegally because they were unable to pay spiraling fees."
“Traffic courts in California routinely impose exorbitant penalty assessments, fines and fees on all traffic court cases over and above the statutory fines” required for public safety, says Howard Herships of Sacramento, who authored the pending suit. “The exorbitant fines and fees are done for one purpose, and one purpose only, to fund the day-to-day operations of the courts in California,” he says."
"Hundreds of millions of dollars are raised for the court system through fees, penalties and other charges — $858 million in 2013-14, by one estimate — and several billion dollars over five years. The amount of fees owed the state but which go uncollected was about $11.2 billion, according to a January 2016 report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office. "
