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Live: Reaction to Trump’s Travel Ban | Live: Reaction to Trump’s Travel Ban |
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• A federal judge partly blocked President Trump’s ban on refugees and other foreign nationals who are being held at American airports. | |
• The White House seemed to changed course and said that green card holders will not be barred. | • The White House seemed to changed course and said that green card holders will not be barred. |
• The ban spurred protests at Kennedy Airport and across the country. | • The ban spurred protests at Kennedy Airport and across the country. |
There are protests against the ban planned at airports and town squares across the country today. Here’s a roundup of some of the ones in bigger cities, via thinkprogress.org. All times are local: | There are protests against the ban planned at airports and town squares across the country today. Here’s a roundup of some of the ones in bigger cities, via thinkprogress.org. All times are local: |
• New York: Battery Park, 2 to 5 p.m. | |
• Louisville, Ky.: Senator Mitch McConnell’s office, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | • Louisville, Ky.: Senator Mitch McConnell’s office, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
• Boston: Copley Square, 1 to 3 p.m. | • Boston: Copley Square, 1 to 3 p.m. |
• Houston: Discovery Green, 1 to 4 p.m. | • Houston: Discovery Green, 1 to 4 p.m. |
• Philadelphia: International Airport, Terminal A West (Arrivals), 2 to 4 p.m. | • Philadelphia: International Airport, Terminal A West (Arrivals), 2 to 4 p.m. |
• Detroit: Hamtramck City Hall, 3 p.m.; international arrivals section of the McNamara Terminal of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, 4 to 6 p.m. | • Detroit: Hamtramck City Hall, 3 p.m.; international arrivals section of the McNamara Terminal of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, 4 to 6 p.m. |
• Los Angeles: Los Angeles International Airport, Tom Bradley International Terminal, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. | |
• Atlanta: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, 4 to 6 p.m. | • Atlanta: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, 4 to 6 p.m. |
A group of five Iranians being held at Kennedy Airport in New York have told family members that the federal authorities were planning to put them on a 1:30 p.m. flight back to Turkey, their lawyer said. | |
The lawyer, Melanie Zuch of the Urban Justice Center, said the plan violated a federal judge’s order blocking deportations. The five Iranians have a mix of student and visitor visas, Ms. Zuch said. | |
Ms. Zuch said lawyers had filed motions to stop the Iranians from being deported. “They should absolutely be affected by the stay,” Ms. Zuch said, referring to the judge’s order. “That’s why it is so troubling that this conversation is still going on.” | |
A sixth Iranian who arrived on the same flight, a green card holder, has been released from Customs and Border Protection custody, Ms. Zuch said. | |
Ms. Zuch and other lawyers said they were hearing reports of detainees being asked to sign documents without access to a lawyer or an interpreter, possibly waiving their request for admission into the United States and easing the federal authorities’ efforts to put them onto planes. | |
On Sunday morning, she said there were dozens of lawyers in the arrivals section, looking for family members of detainees and offering legal help. | |
But, she said, “if they don’t have family members waiting, we don’t have a way of knowing they’re there.” | |
The president took to Twitter this morning to justify his order giving priority to Christian refugees from mostly Muslim countries. That provision has been criticized from across the religious spectrum, including by Christian leaders. | The president took to Twitter this morning to justify his order giving priority to Christian refugees from mostly Muslim countries. That provision has been criticized from across the religious spectrum, including by Christian leaders. |