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President Trump's executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. also applies to green card holders from those countries, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday. "It will bar green card holders," acting DHS spokeswoman Gillian Christensen told Reuters.
Green cards serve as proof of an individual's permanent legal residence in the U.S. A senior administration official clarified on Saturday afternoon that green card holders from the seven countries affected in the order who are currently outside the U.S. will need a case-by-case waiver to return to the U.S. Green card holders in the U.S. will have to meet with a consular officer before departing the country, the official said.
Source: The Hill
At least one case quickly prompted a legal challenge as lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees held at Kennedy International Airport in New York filed a motion early Saturday seeking to have their clients released. They also filed a motion for class certification, in an effort to represent all refugees and other immigrants who they said were being unlawfully detained at ports of entry. Shortly after noon on Saturday, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, an interpreter who worked on behalf of the United States government in Iraq, was released. After nearly 19 hours of detention, Mr. Darweesh began to cry as he spoke to reporters, putting his hands behind his back and miming handcuffs.
[...] Inside the airport, one of the lawyers, Mark Doss, a supervising attorney at the International Refugee Assistance Project, asked a border agent, "Who is the person we need to talk to?"
"Call Mr. Trump," said the agent, who declined to identify himself.
[...] An official message to all American diplomatic posts around the world provided instructions about how to treat people from the countries affected: "Effective immediately, halt interviewing and cease issuance and printing" of visas to the United States. Confusion turned to panic at airports around the world, as travelers found themselves unable to board flights bound for the United States. In Dubai and Istanbul, airport and immigration officials turned passengers away at boarding gates and, in at least one case, ejected a family from a flight they had boarded.
[...] Iranian green card holders who live in the United States were blindsided by the decree while on vacation in Iran, finding themselves in a legal limbo and unsure whether they would be able to return to America. "How do I get back home now?" said Daria Zeynalia, a green card holder who was visiting family in Iran. He had rented a house and leased a car, and would be eligible for citizenship in November. "What about my job? If I can't go back soon, I'll lose everything."
Source: The New York Times
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @10:06PM
Aren't there laws on the books that protect Green Card holders? How much of our way of life is subject to Presidential orders? Picking on weak people in society is a sure sign of a bully. I predict the Congress will gain popularity once they start standing up to this behavior, perhaps after the mid-term elections.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @10:12PM
There probably are laws. But green card holders are technically aliens. So they go to court and spend a year arguing it out. Meanwhile all the people stranded outside the US get to spend a whole year scrambling to get by.
And it isn't just green cards. Its people on other kinds of visas too, like college students and refugees who have already spent 2-3 years being 'vetted' - by far the longest investigation period for refugees going to any country in the world.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday January 28 2017, @10:19PM
I hate to break it to you, but Congress isn't interested in standing up to unethical behavior. They're interested in lining their pockets, and periodically being reelected to be allowed to line their pockets some more. If they were interested in doing the Right Thing[tm], they wouldn't have allowed the jackbooted trampling of the constitution that's been going on since 9/11.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @11:05PM
Obama answered this question.
Everything from forcing law enforcement to ignore the lawfully-enacted immigration laws, to forcing businesses to allow psychologically-disturbed people to use the wrong bathrooms, Obama blazed the way.
You just don't like it because Trump isn't your bully.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @11:35PM
You just don't like it because Trump isn't your bully.
You seem to be making an unfounded assumption about the person you replied to.