Protests also continued in cities nationwide against Trump’s executive order temporarily banning all refugees, as well as all citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—from entering the United States. In Minneapolis, an estimated 5,000 people flooded into the streets around the Federal Building. The Anti-War Committee, which organized the protest, said, “It is criminal for the U.S. to bomb and attack other countries and then turn away refugees when the U.S. has destroyed their homelands.” In Columbia, South Carolina, over 600 people gathered at the State House to denounce Trump’s Muslim ban. Legal challenges to the ban also grew Tuesday as the states of Washington, Massachusetts, Virginia and New York all joined lawsuits against Trump’s executive order. This is Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.

Maura Healey: “The executive order is harmful, discriminatory and unconstitutional. It discriminates on the basis of religion and national origin, denies our residents access to due process and equal protection of the law and violates federal immigration law. The role of this office is to uphold the law and the Constitution of this state and of the United States.”

As many as 1,000 State Department diplomats and officials have signed on to a dissent memo that condemns Trump’s Muslim ban. That’s far more signatures than any other dissent memo signed in recent years. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to claim the executive order is not a “ban.” That’s despite the fact that both Spicer and President Trump have repeatedly called the executive order a ban, including multiple times on Monday. On Tuesday, Spicer also tried to defend authorities’ decision to handcuff a 5-year-old U.S. citizen for hours at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia after the boy returned from a trip to Iran, by claiming the boy could have posed a security threat. Trump has falsely claimed that only 109 people have been denied entry to the U.S. since the ban was imposed. In fact, officials with Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday at least 721 people have been denied entry into the United States.

Editor’s Note: This morning’s headlines also included a claim by a man who told WJBK in Detroit that his mother, a 75-year-old Iraqi-American green card holder, died after being denied entry into the United States. An imam in Detroit has since told the station that the woman died in Iraq five days before the ban was put in place.