Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges to Trumps Immigration Order

[OKNancy]

Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges to Trump’s Immigration Order

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0


President Trump’s executive order closing the nation’s borders to refugees was put into immediate effect Friday night. Refugees who were in the air on the way to the United States when the order was signed were stopped and detained at airports.

The detentions prompted legal challenges as lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees held at Kennedy Airport filed a writ of habeas corpus early Saturday in the Eastern District of New York seeking to have their clients released. At the same time, they filed a motion for class certification, in an effort to represent all refugees and immigrants who they said were being unlawfully detained at ports of entry.

Mr. Trump’s order, which suspends entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, created a legal limbo for individuals on the way to the United States and panic for families who were awaiting their arrival.

Mr. Trump’s order also stops the admission of refugees from Syria indefinitely, and it bars entry into the United States for 90 days from seven predominantly Muslim countries linked to concerns about terrorism. Those countries are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

[underpants]

1. They did no preparation on legality, feasibility, and implementation on these EO's

Basically they did no review of the consequences becasuse they are just grandstanding to the base

[OKNancy]

3. exactly - so cruel

they didn't even think about it in advance

[jeanmarc]

5. Rough drafts by Steve Bannon, a fascist

I have friends who say 'nothing has happened'. Oh, it's happening.

[oasis]

2. Shameful. nt

[bigtree]

4. a national shame

...perpetrated by a failed game show loser.