By JAMES GORDON MEEK CINDY GALLI BRIAN ROSS Nov. 20, 2013 QUANTICO, Virginia
the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets.
"the State Department" under Obama's upper-management -- not an administrative autonomous zone.
U.S. Code Title 8 Chapter 12 Subchapter II Part II § 1182
(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
Continued at (f):
Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.
Additional Refs., even though Trump wasn't actually required to correlate his travel moratorium decisions, as he did, with the prior concerns and actionings of Obama and Congressionals at that time (which included Dems who approved back then but don't now because Trump is a Republican, so they'd rather endanger America's security with their "Muslim Persecution" rampage. Doesn't matter to those "Partiers" that countries with larger Muslim populations weren't added to his 90 day moratorium.):