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posted by takyon on Saturday January 28 2017, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly

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


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @10:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @10:15PM (#459949)

    First they came for the Mexicans, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Mexican.

    Then they came for the Press, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Blogger.

    Then they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Muslim.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @12:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @12:59AM (#460001)

    First they came for the illegal Mexicans, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not violating the law.

    Then they told the Press to suck it, and I did not speak out—
    Because I want the Press to suck it.

    Then they didn't come for the Muslims but only stopped new ones from getting in, and I did not speak out—
    Because that was a campaign promise legitimized by the vote of the demos.

    Then they didn't come for me—and everything was fine.

    FTFY

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @01:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @01:15AM (#460012)

      You are literally performing the point of view of the speaker in the poem.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:06AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:06AM (#460042)

        Stopping people from entering your borders is not analogous to putting a bullet through their head for objecting to your political ideas. It's not like Trump is sending drones to murder defenseless Muslim civilians in their homes in the middle east - that is Obama you are thinking of.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:11AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:11AM (#460046)

          Obama is no longer an excuse for you. Its only your God Emperror sitting on that throne now.
          And if you don't think this is the first step on that path, then you are no student of history.
          Apologists just like you were saying the same things about jews at the start too.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:45AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:45AM (#460068)

            Your own God Emperor is gone, so you hate the current God Emperor. So far, Trump hasn't reached into my wallet to pay for some hare-brained insurance scheme that could never work.

          • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Sunday January 29 2017, @03:06AM

            by Sulla (5173) on Sunday January 29 2017, @03:06AM (#460086) Journal

            Confused. Bush is still an excuse for the left. Yet a week in and we can't blame Obama for stuff he actually did?

            Tell you what. If you want to bitch then go back and not be a hypocrit. When Obama did the same unconstitutional things Bush did, protest instead of making an excuse. Obama codified everything Bush did wrong. Now everyone is stuck with the consequences.

            --
            Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @03:16AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @03:16AM (#460091)

              > Confused. Bush is still an excuse for the left. Yet a week in and we can't blame Obama for stuff he actually did?

              Blame Obama for everything he did.
              But what Trump actively does today is what Trump owns.
              It isn't like the drone bombings have stopped.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @06:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @06:34AM (#460161)

    Then they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out—
    Because my 15yo daughter was repeatedly raped by muslims who laughed at us, her parents, when we tried to get her out of there and I was arrested for trying and now I can only watch them pick her up from outside the school gates

    Google it.

  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday January 29 2017, @11:07AM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Sunday January 29 2017, @11:07AM (#460207)

    "Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me, except for all of my guns, and all of my friend's guns, then they left me alone."

    ftfy

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:52PM (#460248)

      Did you spooge yourself in that wet dream?
      Waco was loaded to the gills with guns.
      How'd that work out for them?