Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Refugee Crackdown
A federal judge granted an emergency stay Saturday to temporarily allow people with valid visas who landed in the U.S. to stay in the country.
The American Civil Liberties Union and other activist groups filed a class action lawsuit on Saturday, seeking to challenge President Donald Trump‘s order to deny U.S. entry to refugees from seven countries, as acrimony widened over the policy and the number of detainees waylaid in transit appeared to swell…
…In a habeus [sic] corpus petition filed Saturday in a New York federal court on behalf of two Iraqis detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the ACLU called Trump’s move “unlawful.” More from CNBC.
This a win for the rule of law over the rule of men.
Seems like the stay only applies to people currently in US airports, not future people arriving from the 7 “banned” countries.
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) January 29, 2017
Signed judge's order. No refugees are going to be immediately deported pic.twitter.com/sbfaG7DBt0
— ACLU National (@ACLU) January 29, 2017
4 factors have been met: Irreparable harm established, likelihood of success on merits, no harm to govt. Likelihood of class cert.
— Jackie Vimo (@JackieVimo) January 29, 2017
This is a lawyer involved with the case.
Stay is national
— Dale Ho (@dale_e_ho) January 29, 2017