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The Intercept reports
A Federal judge in New York issued a nationwide temporary injunction [1], halting the implementation of President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration on Saturday night, blocking the deportation of travelers with valid visas detained at airports in the past 24 hours.
Judge Ann Donnelly, a United States District Court Judge in Brooklyn, issued the ruling at an emergency hearing on a lawsuit [2] filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups on Saturday, as Trump's executive order temporarily banning citizens of seven nations with Muslim majorities from entering the U.S. took immediate effect.
The judge ruled that the government must immediately stop deporting travelers from those nations, including refugees who already went through a rigorous vetting process, and provide a complete list of all those detained, immigrants rights lawyer Lee Gelernt told reporters in Brooklyn.
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[1] Direct link to a PDF of the Emergency Motion for Stay of Removal (Case 1:17-cv-00480 Document 8 Filed 01/28/17).
[2] Direct link to a PDF of the Original ACLU Complaint (Case 1:17-cv-00480 Document 1 Filed 01/28/17).
Previously:
Breaking News: Immigration Ban Includes Green Card Holders
(Score: 3, Informative) by jelizondo on Sunday January 29 2017, @03:13PM
Technically you are asking a judge for protection against an act of the Federal Government which will be/is harmful to you, so it doesn’t matter where the judge is, what matters is where you are. The judge granted a motion of stay pending a review of the legitimacy of the act.
A motion of stay means to keep things as they were before the act of the government, i.e. if you are detained, you are to be freed; if you were denied entry, to allow you entry, etc. After the legal review you may be detained, deported or whatever, but no before due process.
It does not apply to all cases, only to the particular cases where the judge has ruled a motion of stay. As someone else pointed out, it only applies to people already in transit to the U.S. or at airports in the U.S.; others will have to petition their cases separately.