“This is the soul of America”, a gracious Darweesh said of the supporters. Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, 33, was coming to the United States to join his wife, who had worked for a USA contractor, and young son in Houston, court documents reveal.
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Abed Ayoud, legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said they’ve received more than 1,000 calls by midday Saturday from people who have been stranded or detained in the USA and overseas.
“No magistrate has determined that there is sufficient justification for the continued detention of either Petitioner”. “People are standing up and they’re rising up against these executive orders that are just being delivered to divide this country”.
“Mr. President, what you have done is un-American”.
Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and Congressman Jerry Nadler, both Democrats, were able to meet with U.S. Customs officials and get him released.
“They are being unlawfully detained under very unclear authority”, said Congressman Jerrold Nadler.
“America is the greatest nation, the greatest people in the world”, he added. Because they’re good people.
Meanwhile, airlines overseas are turning away passengers following Trump’s order.
President Donald Trump’s executive action temporarily halting travel from Muslim-majority countries and banning refugees is catching travelers in its aftermath and sparking California aid groups to scramble for legal help.
For at least 90 days, citizens of Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and Libya are barred from entering the country.
It listed foreign government, United Nations, worldwide organization and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation visas.
Trump signed sweeping executive orders this week banning Muslims from certain countries from entering the country and placing restrictions on immigration. “Let them in!” at JFK terminal 4 airport. Vrijenhoek said she had no specifics on their nationalities.
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President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive action to bring sweeping changes to the nation’s refugee policies is causing fear and alarm for immigrants in the USA whose family members will be affected.
