Handful of GOP Senators and Representatives Criticize Trump Travel Ban

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Saturday that it bans, for 90 days, entry not by only visa-holders from those countries but people with green cards.

The filing says both men are being held at the airport by Customs and Border Protection “solely pursuant to an executive order issued” Friday.

The union estimated between 100 and 200 people from the barred countries, including refugees, were being detained at airports or in transit.

The order sparked protests at several U.S. airports, including New York’s Kennedy and Chicago’s O’Hare and those in Minneapolis and Dallas-Forth Worth.

On top of that, nearly 500,000 people from the seven countries have received green cards in the past decade, allowing them to live and work in the United States indefinitely. “This ban can not be allowed to continue”, said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

In their court filing, the lawyers said Mr Alshawi’s wife had worked for a USA security contractor in Iraq.

Cavaretta hopes local politicians and federal officials will come together with open minds and create constructive solutions, rather than simply fighting the executive order.

“It’s not a Muslim ban, but we were totally prepared”.

Demonstrators angry over the detention of travelers at John F. Kennedy International Airport gathered at the busy travel hub on 28 January 2017, denouncing and executive order by President Donald Trump banning travel from some predominantly Muslim countries.

One of the Iraqi men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, has worked as an interpreter and in other roles for the U.S. in Iraq. You see it in the airports, you see it all over.

Booker (D-N.J.) returned from visiting a refugee camp in the Middle East last August and called on the U.S.to address “a humanitarian crisis of a scale rarely witnessed in the last 50 years”.

Welcoming the federal judge’s ruling, ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project Deputy Director Lee Gelernt said, “This ruling preserves the status quo and ensures that people who have been granted permission to be in this country are not illegally removed off U.S. soil”.

Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order. There is exception for Christian refugees.

If they are overseas, they will be allowed back into the country on a case-by-case basis.

Trump’s Friday order, which he did not explain out loud, has created mass confusion around the world.

“We’ve gotten reports of people being detained all over the country”.

Minutes after the New York’s ruling, another judge in the Federal District Court of Virginia, handed another ruling temporarily stopping the deportation of any green card holder being detained at Dulles International Airport.