In ACLU Washington’s article covering Executive Order 13769, the ACLU provides a timeline of the legal actions they took and the public's resistance to the executive order. The American Civil Liberties Union is a non-profit legal advocacy organization that fights for people's civil rights (ACLU Washington). On January 28, 2017, the ACLU-Washington and NW Immigrant Rights Project proceeded to an airport to assist those who were denied entry to the United States (ACLU Washington). On the same day, elected officials and over a thousand protesters were able to aid in the release of two individuals who were being denied by Customs and Border Protection (ACLU Washington). 

In an article titled, Trump’s Muslim Ban doesn’t just target eight countries. It’s stoking hatred against muslims in America, Chen explains, a rise in racially biased attacks against Muslims after Trump signed Executive Order 13769. In 2017, the year the executive order was signed, there was a seventeen-percent rise in anti-Muslim bias attacks from the previous year (Chen, 2018). Moreover, the anti-Muslim bias attacks challenged conventional geographical expectations (Chen, 2018). Both Republican and Democratic states presented vast hate crimes, with California reporting 870 bias incidents against Muslims (Chen, 2018). An instance of a basis attack was a child getting her hijab pulled (Chen, 2018). Chen points to Trump’s executive order as influencing the increased racist attacks against Muslims.

In the article titled, From the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Muslim Ban: Immigration System Built on Systemic Racism, authors Al-Khersan and Shahshaham explore the history of the United States of America utilizing immigration legislation and policy to uphold its interests. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to prohibit Chinese laborers from entering the United States of America, as well as preventing Chinese immigrants from being naturalized (Al-Khersan and Shahshaham, 2022). The act was produced by the government after Chinese laborers experienced economic success after the gold rush in California (Al-Khersan and Shahshaham, 2022). The government justified the act by declaring that Chinese individuals were a threat to national security due to their lack of attempt at assimilation (Al-Khersan and Shahshaham, 2022). Al-Khersan and Shahshaham explain that the same factored used to justify the Chinese Exclusion Act were used to uphold the Muslim ban, thus, a repeat of history.