According to the Washington Post, authorities detained two Iraqi men at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday: 33-year-old refugee and U.S. Government contractor Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi and 53-year-old military translator Hameed Khalid Darweesh.
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Darweesh had been granted a “special immigrant visa” last week, the lawsuit said, because he worked for the usa military as an interpreter, for a federal agency as an engineer and for a federal contractor.
Officials at Cairo airport in Egypt said Saturday that seven USA -bound migrants-six from Iraq and one from Yemen-had been stopped from boarding an EgyptAir flight to New York’s JFK airport, the Associated Press reported.
In the meantime, scores of people staged demonstrations on Saturday in support of the detained immigrants.
“This should not happen in America”, says Rep. Nydia Velazquez.
Both were denied entry to the U.S. after landing at the airports despite having valid visas. Alshawi’s wife had worked as a contractor for the U.S. government in Iraq. “So the more habeas corpus filings that can be made, the more that’s on the record about these people, and the more we can prove the point that these people aren’t illegal, and the executive order’s effect is against established law and precedent”.
Now, two fully-outfitted apartments remain empty and it is unclear when, if ever, the other refugees will be allowed to enter, said Marc Jacobs, the group’s chief executive.
“It was a surprise for him”, she told the Times.
“She was crying and she told me she was banned to come inside and go through the gates”, said her husband Mohamad Zandian, 26, an Iranian doctoral student at Ohio State University.
Trump’s ban on asylum-seekers came down even as Iraqis endangered by work for the United States in their home country were midflight to their hoped-for refuge in the United States.
“The language of the racist executive order he just signed is ambiguous, but it is likely to prevent permanent residents like me from returning to the country where I am a student, where I have to defend my thesis”, Abdi wrote on Facebook.
Omar, who lives with his brother’s family, said he plans to apply for USA citizenship this year. The family of three – a couple and their child – had been scheduled to board a Chicago-bound plane from Amman in Jordan, then take a second flight to Charlotte.
“They (her daughters) are so anxious and afraid because they’re stuck there in Baghdad”, she said.
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Idlibi, a Syrian native who has been in Charlotte for 20 years, said an apartment had already been rented for the family. He said that measures were long overdue, Reuters reported. “Everything was set, everything was ready”.
