According to the report, one of the Iraqis detained at JFK, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, had worked on behalf of the us government in Iraq for a decade. “Instead, CBP is holding Petitioners at JFK Airport exclusively pursuant to an executive order issued on January 27, 2017”, court papers said.
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Additionally, Doss pressed that if his client was sent back to his home country, he would be in “serious danger”, given his affiliation with the U.S.
Two lawyers representing refugees being held at JFK Airport in NY filed a writ of habeas corpus early this morning in an attempt to bring their clients in front of a judge who could order their release.
Human rights groups reported that legal permanent residents of the United States who hold green cards were being stopped in foreign airports as they sought to return from funerals, vacations or study overseas.
Hours after Trump signed an executive order banning all immigrants and refugees from seven countries in the Middle East, the first man detained while trying to enter the United States has been identified. After going through a vetting process, the government deemed them both no threat to the U.S. Alshawi was born in Baghdad and studied accounting at Baghdad University, graduating in 2006.
Both men were legally permitted to enter the USA, but were detained Friday at John F. Kennedy International Airport because of Trump’s ban on travel from several majority-Muslim nations.
“All of these refugees have been examined – and they’re bona fides and their records were looked into for an average of two years”, Nadler said. He was reportedly directly targeted twice for working with the USA military.
An Iraqi man, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, was released.
Protesters took over JFK airport after 12 people have been detained as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order.
Five Iraqis and a Yemeni national arrived at Cairo airport to board an Egyptair flight bound for the JF Kennedy Airport in NY, the sources added.
The order also suspends the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days until the president determines they have been sufficiently changed.
The travelers were airborne as Trump signed the action yesterday.
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“America is the greatest nation”, he said.
