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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: 2) by Entropy on Sunday January 29 2017, @07:24PM

    by Entropy (4228) on Sunday January 29 2017, @07:24PM (#460367)

    Just because you can find positive examples, doesn't mean as a whole they are good. France: Rape Gangs raping children then the press under reporting the problem, then getting light penalties. Here's a couple references:
    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/346059 [digitaljournal.com]
    http://joeforamerica.com/2015/11/muslim-gang-rape-marathons-continue-across-europe-wheres-press/ [joeforamerica.com]

    How about bombings...The paris bomber used guess what, a Syrian refugee passport:
    http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/15/europe/paris-attacks-passports/index.html [cnn.com]

    We don't really have to worry too much about rape gangs, and bombings here in the US. Europe didn't have to either, until the let a ton of "Refugees" in... Now they have those sorts of problems. Unless the "Refugees" start exterminating the extremists among them, they area cancer.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday January 30 2017, @05:47PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday January 30 2017, @05:47PM (#460720)

    Just because you can find positive examples, doesn't mean as a whole they are good.

    Just because you can find negative examples doesn't mean as a whole they are bad.

    Also, many of your claims about the Paris attack are wrong:
    - It wasn't a bombing, it was a mass shooting.
    - While a Syrian refugee passport was found at the scene, that turned out to not belong to any of the perpetrators. Which isn't surprising, because none of them were Syrians. An Egyptian passport was also found at the scene, and was determined to belong to one of the victims of the attack.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.