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Amid Protests And Confusion, Trump Defends Executive Order

... and he stopped short of saying that Trump’s action amounted to a Muslim ban. “I think we need to be careful,” Mc Connell said. “We don’t have religious tests in this country.”. The Department of Homeland Security noted that “less than one percent” of international air travelers arriving Saturday in the United States were “inconvenienced” by the executive order — though the situation described by lawyers and immigrant advocates across the country was one of widespread uncertainty and disorder at airports where travelers from the targeted countries were suddenly detained. Federal judges began stepping in late Saturday as requests for stays of Trump’s action flooded courtrooms. A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked deportations nationwide. Her ruling was followed by similar decisions by federal judges in California, Virginia, Seattle and Boston. [ The tumultuous politics of U. S. immigration policy, from ...

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... __link__ Contributor  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - 1:59 pm. It’s not a formal performance, it’s just a little girl playing and singing. But that’s what makes this version of "Jolene" so adorable. Utah wildlife officials on high alert for winter poachers. The Associated Press  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - 1:22 pm. With winter in full swing, Utah wildlife officers are on high alert for poachers as colder weather brings wildlife out of higher elevations and closer to populated areas. How Trump's travel ban affects green card holders and dual citizens.  Dan Merica, CNN  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - 12:41 pm. President Donald Trump's immigration executive order set off mass confusion at airports and even the agencies in charge of implementing it. 'A Dog's Purpose' opens to $18.4 million amid controversy.  Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - 12:20 pm. Opening in theaters amid controversy over animal treatment on set and calls for a boycott, "A Dog's Purpose" still managed to earn $18.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Capitol hosts 'Utah Drawn,' showcasing state's history in maps. Ryan Morgan  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - ...

Refugees, Visa And Green Card Holders Detained, Turned Away At O'hare

... p.m. Saturday, according to attorneys. Amirisefat’s brother-in-law, who asked Chicago Tonight only to use his first name, Hassem, says the customs and border patrol officials seemed confused while he and his family were in custody. “Immigration officers told me, ‘It’s very quick, It’s very fast,”’ Hassem said. “We still don’t know how to do this. All of the time, we’re waiting for the high level agents to tell them what to do.”. Even though he had a green card, Hassem said that an agent told him that as long as he had an Iranian passport he had to be held under the new regulation. Various media reports say there were 18 travelers detained at O’Hare airport on Saturday as a result of the executive order, although the estimated number varied among attorneys. Attorney Matt Pryor says one woman, a Syrian citizen with a U. S. visa who was traveling here from Saudi Arabia, was turned away and sent back. He says the woman was here to visit her mother in Valparaiso who was recovering from surgery. The confusion at O'Hare echoes the scene playing out at New York’s JFK airport. An ...

Legal Residents With Green Cards Warned Not To Leave U.s

... this administration is doing,” Marielena Hincapie, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, told the Chicago Sun-Times. The Center, along with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and other legal groups, filed a lawsuit on Saturday on behalf of two Iraqi men with immigrant visas detained at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The two were blocked from entering the U. S. after Trump signed an executive order on Friday barring people from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya from entering the U. S. for 90 days. Trump’s order includes more – it will prevent green card holders from those nations traveling outside the U. S. from entry back into the U. S. A green card grants the holder the legal right to be a permanent resident of the U. S. At a White House briefing on Saturday, reporters were told green card holders from the seven listed nations who are currently outside the U. S “will need a case by case waiver to return to the United States,” according to an official. Hincapie said with little advance notice and no written public guidelines with details on how to carry ...

Green Card Holders Won’t Be Subject To Travel Ban

... said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” that green card holders were detained at airports, handcuffed, their social media accounts reviewed, interrogated and “also asked their view on Donald Trump.”. “This is pretty scary,” Parsi said. Dems pledged to “battle” the ban legislatively and with public pressure. “We think this administration poses a real threat to our reputation, our values and our people,” said Sen. Tim Kaine [D-Va.] on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And we’re going to battle.”. Kaine called out the White House for issuing the ban the same day it eliminated reference to Jews from its statement Friday on Holocaust Remembrance Day. “The irony is not lost on me that it was issued the same day as the White House issued their Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation that unlike any previous administration removed all reference to Jews,” Kaine said. “So you put a religious test on Muslims and you try to scrub reference to Jews in the Holocaust Remembrance. This was horribly, horribly mishandled…. This is what Holocaust denial is.”. ...

Donald Trump’s Travel Ban Sparks Protests, Confusion For Green Card Holders At Us Airports

... Along with Syria, the ban affects travelers with passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The Department of Homeland Security said about 375 travelers had been affected by the order, 109 of whom were in transit and were denied entry to the United States. Another 173 were stopped by airlines before boarding. The order “affects a minor portion of international travelers,” the department said in a statement, saying the measures “inconvenienced” less than 1 percent of travelers. The new rules blindsided people in transit and families waiting for them, and caused havoc for businesses with employees holding passports from the targeted nations and colleges with international students. Pegah Rahmani, 25, waited at Washington’s Dulles airport for several hours for her grandparents, both Iranian citizens with U. S. green cards. “They weren’t treating them very well,” she said. Rahmani’s grandfather is 88 and legally blind. Her grandmother is 83 and recently had a stroke. They were released to loud cheers and cries. Are more legal ...

Trump's Muslim Ban Is Keeping A Green Card Holder Stuck In Iran Away From His Kids

... rhetoric was not the first thing on his mind. Sabouri, a 66-year-old financial analyst and Ph D candidate, had gone to Tehran for his brother-in-law’s funeral on Jan. 15. He didn’t question that his green card might not be enough to get him back into the U. S., and to his family. Then, on Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned the citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U. S. for 90 days. Chaos ensued. As immigrants and visitors were detained at airports, immigration lawyers and protesters raced to their aid. It was tough to tell what Trump’s order actually meant: Were permanent American residents with citizenship from a banned country allowed to enter, or reenter, the U. S. The Trump administration's answers were inconsistent. First, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said the order ...

Trump Bars Door To Refugees, Visitors From Seven Mainly Muslim Nations

... by Congress and the power granted by the Constitution to help keep America safe and ensure we know who is entering the United States," Goodlatte said in a statement. Without naming Trump, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticized steps towards cancelling world trade agreements. Trump on Wednesday ordered the construction of a U. S.-Mexican border wall, a major promise during his election campaign, as part of a package of measures to curb illegal immigration. "Today is not the time to erect walls between nations. They have forgotten that the Berlin wall fell years ago," Rouhani said in a speech carried live on Iranian state television. He made no direct reference to Trump's order regarding refugees and travelers from the seven mainly Muslim states. Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in 2013, thawed Iran's relations with world powers after years of confrontation and engineered its 2015 deal with them under which it curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions. Rouhani said earlier this month that Trump could not ...

Iranian-born Green Card Holder Says He Was Detained, Released After Departing Cruise Ship At Port Everglades

... for a Gay Cruise," Sodagari wrote. "Now I may not be able to enter the US tomorrow. My future is all unclear just by a sudden change in the law. If I get detained and sent back to Iran, at least I lived the life to the fullest as a gay man in the U. S., and I want to thank you all fir [sic] being part of the experience.". Prominent Miami immigration attorney Ira Kurzban said he was contacted Saturday by lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as others following Sadagari's Facebook postings, and asked to prepare a legal motion seeking Sadagari's release if he were detained. That was not necessary. "The real problem here is the executive order," said Kurzban. "On its face is is overly broad, poorly written, poorly executed. And anti-Muslim and anti-constitutional.". When he arrived at Port Everglades, Sodagari said, he was separated from his friends for questioning "was something very real. I was worried.". He described the officials he dealt with as "very nice, friendly, professional." After more than two hours, he was released, he said. "I was very worried," said Eric Hammonds, 42, a Wilton Manors real estate broker traveling with ...