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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @12:49AM
> This will postpone the extinction of American culture for years.
America was literally built on the back of muslims.
The first man the british killed in the revolution [wikipedia.org] was muslim
30% of the slaves brought here were muslim. [startribune.com]
In the south, nearly a quarter of all white men's income came directly from slavery.
And it was slave grown products that enabled the north to industrialize starting with textile factories to process slave-grown cotton.
So take your racist version of "american culture" and go die in a ditch nazi scum.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 29 2017, @01:54AM
Wikileaks page says little is known of Crispus, and the words "muslim" or "moslem" don't appear on that page.
Oh, you are presuming that Crispus was Muslim based on your second link? I'm not going to argue that 30% of slaves were or were not Muslim. I don't really believe it, but it's not worth arguing, to much trouble to research. I do know that a lot of slaves believed a lot of different things. Africa was not some homogenous pot of Islamic culture, after all.
But, you've had your exercise today, leaping to conclusions.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:01AM
Oh look, yet again derpaway is angered by facts that contradict his worldview so he posts an empty self-aggrandizing post to sooth his hurt feelings.
Literally bragging about being intellectually lazy.
Get a fucking safe-space, dumbass. Nobody gives a shit about what you think.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:27AM
Then, try presenting some FACTS, fuckface. Don't offer up some bullshit guesses - Crispus was half Native American and half African, and you're GUESSING that he was Muslim?