Judge acts to stop deportations after Trump cracks down on entrants

BTN News
Monday, 30 January 2017

A federal judge in the USA has ruled some 200 refugees and others trapped at airports across the United States cannot be deported despite an executive order signed by president Trump that seeks to stop some foreigners from entering the country.

The judge’s ruling blocked only part of the president’s actions, it did not rule on the constitutionality of Trump’s actions.

The presidential order means the USA is refusing entry to Muslim refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.

In reality the ban means selected would-be visitors and refugees are denied boarding by airlines in their own countries or at overseas transit airports. Those who do arrive at USA airports are detained there. 

Trump's order bars all refugees from entry for 120 days, indefinitely prohibiting entry for Syrian refugees and halting entry for citizens of seven Muslim nations — Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — for 90 days.

The National Immigration Law Center described US ports of entry as chaotic on Friday because border control agents had received no guidance about how to implement the order. 

Immigration experts also were unsure how to handle people who had green cards — making them permanent residents but not citizens — but who were born in the targeted Muslim countries.

Judge acts to stop deportations after Trump cracks down on entrants

BTN News
Monday, 30 January 2017

A federal judge in the USA has ruled some 200 refugees and others trapped at airports across the United States cannot be deported despite an executive order signed by president Trump that seeks to stop some foreigners from entering the country.

The judge’s ruling blocked only part of the president’s actions, it did not rule on the constitutionality of Trump’s actions.

The presidential order means the USA is refusing entry to Muslim refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.

In reality the ban means selected would-be visitors and refugees are denied boarding by airlines in their own countries or at overseas transit airports. Those who do arrive at USA airports are detained there. 

Trump's order bars all refugees from entry for 120 days, indefinitely prohibiting entry for Syrian refugees and halting entry for citizens of seven Muslim nations — Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — for 90 days.

The National Immigration Law Center described US ports of entry as chaotic on Friday because border control agents had received no guidance about how to implement the order. 

Immigration experts also were unsure how to handle people who had green cards — making them permanent residents but not citizens — but who were born in the targeted Muslim countries.