(Middle East Eye) In one of his first decrees as president in 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travellers from several Arab, Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
Less than four years later, Arab and Muslim communities in Michigan and across the country turned out in large numbers to help vote him out of office.
In Dearborn, a city with a population of 94,000 and a large concentration of Arabs and Muslims, President-elect Joe Biden beat Trump by more than 17,000 votes — 30,718 to 13,239.
In the predominantly Arab neighbourhoods on the east side of the city, Biden’s victory margin was even bigger. The president-elect won more than 81 percent of the votes there, compared to Trump’s 17 percent.
