<b>Letters:</b>Precipitous Trump

The growing backlash against Donald Trump's immigration order is encouraging

The stay on the deportation of people from seven Muslim-majority countries by federal judges in the US is a matter of some relief. The growing backlash against Donald Trump’s immigration order is also encouraging as it holds out promise of forcing the administration to reverse the discriminatory and divisive order which virtually amounts to a Muslim ban. The avowed aim “to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of America” was to create a smokescreen to hide the new administration’s hostility and hatred for Muslims. Trump equates Islam, a religion of peace, with terrorism. By religious profiling and pronouncing people “guilty by