Leaders in Iran and Iraq, two of the countries targeted by Mr. Trump?s order, issued furious denunciations on Sunday and vowed to take retaliatory measures. Pakistan, another country whose citizens have carried out attacks in the United States, also ducked Mr. Trump?s list. In a Facebook post on Sunday evening, Mr. Trump insisted that his policy was not a ?Muslim ban? and accused the news media of inaccurate reporting. In his order on Friday, whose stated aim is to keep extremists out of the United States, Mr. Trump invoked the Sept. 11 attacks three times. Yet in much of the Middle East, Mr. Trump is less likely to get such a scolding.

? Many of the Muslims gathered at a community center here on Sunday to learn more about President Donald Trump?s recent executive order won?t necessarily be targeted by it directly, but they were frightened anyway. The roughly 150 people at Silver Spring?s Muslim Community Center are worried about what Trump will do next. Pakistan isn?t on the list of countries in Trump?s executive order, but they want to see how things play out before making plans. The reason for that fear: Trump has only been president for nine days, and he already made a drastic policy change that disproportionately affects Muslims, whom he once vowed to bar from entering the country entirely. That doesn?t mean a U.S. citizen would have nothing to fear in a registry ? Beydoun said he thinks surveillance could allow the government to collect a considerable amount of information about American Muslims.

Last year there were nearly 32,000 immigrant visas issued in the U.S. to the seven affected countries. Microsoft Corp. said it?s in touch with 76 staffers from the seven countries identified in the executive order. ?Too Broad?Criticism of Trump?s executive order emerged from both the left and the right. You will now receive the Technology newsletter Pursuits What to eat, drink, wear and drive ? in real life and your dreams. You will now receive the Business newsletter Markets The most important market news of the day.

?If you actually get resettled in the United States, it?s literally like winning the lottery,? Limon said. Democrats labeled it a ?Muslim ban? and criticized it as inhumane. ?Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? Trump?s order also led French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to say the action was ?worrying? for France and Germany, according to Agence France-Presse. The order doesn?t list the countries but points to laws that cover those seven, which were provided by the White House.

Many Iraqis and Afghans who have worked for the United States since 2001, often as interpreters, say they were promised resettlement in the United States to save them from attack at home. Refugees from Syria, whom Mr. Trump portrayed during his election campaign as potential Islamic State infiltrators, will be barred indefinitely from the country. On Friday, Mr. Trump said that once the United States resumed the intake of refugees, Christians would receive priority. ?Now it only has to pump out our press releases to prove that.?Mr. Trump?s executive order will alienate the pro-Western elites that Americans turn to for help in Muslim countries, Mr. Crocker said. There have been numerous reports of Muslims being harassed in the United States since Mr. Trump?s election.

10:26Trump is facing mounting criticism for his ban on all Syrian refugees entering the US and a halt on arrivals from a string of mostly Muslim countries, Guardian staff report. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced it would be filing a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the order ?because its apparent purpose and underlying motive is to ban people of the Islamic faith from Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States?. Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader in the Senate, said:Tears are running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight as a grand tradition of America, welcoming immigrants, that has existed since America was founded, has been stomped upon. The US president?s executive order, named Protection of the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, places a 90-day block on entry to the US from citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia.

?The ban itself is a Muslim ban,? said Abed Ayoub, legal and policy director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). The move was widely seen as a fulfillment of Trump?s previous pledge to implement a ban on Muslims entering the country. The Guardian has obtained a draft copy of the order which has been circulating among immigration lawyers. New York considers itself a sanctuary city, and local leaders, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, have repeatedly pledged to remain that way. ?To be able to be part of a movement against hate, against fear, and against discrimination.?