City of Milwaukee - File #: 161482

• File #: 161482
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution-Immediate Adoption
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/7/2017
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 2/7/2017
• Title: Resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s opposition to Presidential Executive Order 13769: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.
• Sponsors: ALD. PEREZ, ALD. COGGS, ALD. LEWIS, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. KOVAC, ALD. HAMILTON, ALD. RAINEY, ALD. JOHNSON, ALD. STAMPER, ALD. BOHL, ALD. ZIELINSKI, ALD. MURPHY
• Indexes: FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
2/8/2017	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
2/7/2017	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Ald. Bauman, Kovac, Hamilton, Rainey, Johnson, Stamper, Bohl, and Zielinski added as cosponsors.	Pass	13:2

IMMEDIATE ADOPTION

Number
161482
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. PEREZ, COGGS, LEWIS, BAUMAN, KOVAC, HAMILTON, RAINEY, JOHNSON, STAMPER, BOHL, ZIELINSKI, AND MURPHY
Title
Resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s opposition to Presidential Executive Order 13769: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the City of Milwaukee’s opposition to Presidential Executive Order 13769: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.

Body
Whereas, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769 on January 27, 2017; and

Whereas, The Executive Order suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days, after which the program will be conditionally resumed for individual countries; and

Whereas, The Executive Order suspends the entry, regardless of valid non-diplomatic visas, of alien nationals from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, after which an updated list of prohibited countries will be determined; and

Whereas, As an immediate result of the Executive Order, individuals in possession of current visas have been detained or turned back at airports across the country, resulting in chaos, confusion, deep anxiety, and hardship; and

Whereas, The Executive Order suspends entry of refugees from Syria indefinitely, allowing exceptions on a case-by-case basis, ignoring the fact that those being denied entry are themselves victims of terrorism and are fleeing the savagery, death, and destruction of the Syrian civil war; and

Whereas, The history of the United States is that of a melting pot of cultures as depicted on the Statue of Liberty, which states, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;” and

Whereas, Thousands of protesters have gathered at airports and other locations throughout the United States to protest the signing of the order and detention of hundreds of stranded foreig...