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Green Card Holders Won’t Be Subject To Travel Ban

... Priebus said legal residents won’t be subject to the ban. “The executive order doesn’t affect green card holders moving forward,” Priebus told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”. Mazdak Tootkaboni — a green card holder from Iran and a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth — is embraced during a protest. Getty Images. But he also said border officials may use their “discretion” to question legal residents and US citizens in the future regarding suspicious travel activity to make sure they are not “up to no good.”. Priebus stood by the presidents executive order saying it was necessary to protect Americans and was rolled out effectively with the awareness of homeland security officials. “They knew full well what was going on,” Priebus said. Priebus said “a couple dozen” people remained detained at airports as of Sunday morning. “The fact of the matter is 325,000 people from foreign countries came into the United States yesterday and 109 people were detained for further questioning, most of those people were moved out,” Priebus said. “We’ve got a couple dozen ...

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

... a selfie with her father. Source: Monna Sabouri. The  emergency stay barring the government from deporting people detained in airports with legal immigration documents doesn't help Sabouri, according to the immigration lawyer Diego Aranda Teixeira, because Sabouri is not yet in the U. S. “His case is worrisome,” Aranda Teixeira said. “The existing litigation in the news, from what I have read, only includes people already in the U. S., so he is not covered under the injunctions.”. Aranda Teixeira said if Sabouri is allowed to get on a flight from Tehran, his preferred route would be to start litigation in the U. S. if Sabouri is detained at the airport. “This is a question to put him in view of the risk involved,” Aranda Teixeira added. “I would want to take this risk as there is, clearly, precedent for getting him to not be sent back to Iran and getting him allowed into the country. I'd select a friendly airport, such as JFK, where the relevant District Court has already issued an injunction in favor of people affected by the order.”. The ...

Amid Protests And Confusion, Trump Defends Executive Order

... would resume issuing visas to all countries “once we are sure we have reviewed and implemented the most secure policies over the next 90 days.”. Still, barely 48 hours after Trump issued his order, confusion reigned over its reach and its implementation. Even as the president and other top advisers defended the ban, some Trump officials appeared on Sunday to walk back one of the most controversial elements of the action: its impact on green-card holders, who are permanent legal residents of the United States. “As far as green-card holders going forward, it doesn’t affect them,” Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” contradicting what government officials had said only a day earlier. 1 of 23. Buy Photo. Wait 1 second to continue. In a separate statement, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly was less definitive, suggesting that green-card holders’ status would help them gain entry to the country but that they nonetheless would be subject to a “case-by-case” review. Meanwhile, Kelly’s department indicated separately Sunday that it would continue to implement Trump’s directive, even as it said it ...

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

... I can tell you coming into America is VERY difficult. A #Muslimban accomplishes nothing but hate. READ MORE: Canadians with dual citizenship won’t be affected by Donald Trump travel ban. 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 ...

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

... at helping Christians in Syria. That led some legal experts to question whether the order was constitutional. One group said it would announce a court challenge on Monday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the order targets Muslims because of their faith, contravening the U. S. Constitutional right to freedom of religion. "President Trump has cloaked what is a discriminatory ban against nationals of Muslim countries under the banner of national security," said Greg Chen of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Trump has long pledged to take this kind of action, making it a prominent feature of his campaign for the Nov. 8 election. But people who work with Muslim immigrants and refugees were scrambling to determine the scope of the order. Even legal permanent residents - people with "green cards" allowing them to live and work in the United States - were being advised to consult immigration lawyers before traveling outside the country, or trying to return, ...

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

... majority nations from the U. S. also includes legal U. S. residents from those countries, prompting a warning Saturday from a leader of an immigration group that those green card holders should not leave the U. S. because they may not be allowed to return. “We are saying, people should not be traveling until we get much more clarity about what 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 ...

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

... 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 executive order signed by Trump puts a 120-day hold on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan and Libya, and an indefinite halt to refugees from Syria. The language of the order reportedly includes U. S. green card holders and visa holders from those countries, and deals with those in transit at the time of the signing of the order on a case-by-case basis. Saturday afternoon activist groups swarmed the arrivals section of O’Hare airport’s Terminal 5, ...