Sunday, January 29, 2017

Merkel critical of U.S. immigration ban, spokesman tells Spiegel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Bellevue Castle in Berlin, Germany January 27, 2017.     REUTERS/Axel SchmidtGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized a new U.S. travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, the online site of German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

"She is convinced that even the necessary, decisive battle against terrorism does not justify putting people of a specific background or faith under general suspicion," Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told the magazine.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily banned travelers from Syria and six other predominantly-Muslim countries.

 

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