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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.
[Ed Note (martyb): Original text and links from The Intercept are reproduced here — to bypass indirections and Javascript use the following links.]
[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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @04:43PM
Two brothers, their wives and children left war-torn Syria with 16 suitcases and crossed the border into Lebanon. They were finally on their way to the United States after working for almost 15 years to join their family members stateside.
But after a flight from Beirut to Doha, Qatar, and then to Philadelphia on Saturday, the two families were told to get on a flight back to Doha. It was because President Donald Trump had just signed an executive order denying citizens from seven countries, including Syria, entry into the United States.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/28/us/syrian-family-trump-travel-ban/ [cnn.com]
Of the more than 8,000 Syrian refugees admitted to the country so far, 78% are women or children, according figures released by the State Department this month. Fifty-eight percent are children, with a roughly even split between girls and boys.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/08/09/syria-refugees-united-states-women-children/88446226/ [usatoday.com]
Don't let facts get in your way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @05:26PM
Don't let facts get in your way.
They won't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @07:05PM
That family sent back to Doha was christian.
I guess this isn't a muslim ban after all!
Nah... Just unintended consequences.
Hey derpaway, how's that christofacism working out?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @08:47PM
The 7 countries under Donnie Tiny Hands' blanket ban are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, and Somalia.
The Christian sect in Egypt are called Copts.
They are a minority of the population and are persecuted.
That non-Muslim sect and other non-Muslim sects have also taken root in adjoining lands. [msu.edu]
Note the overlap with the list of 7.
In their countries, those Christians are being targeted.
2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya [wikipedia.org]
At least 25 killed in explosion at Coptic Christian chapel in Cairo [upi.com]
Christian Persecution in Somalia [opendoorsuk.org]
Cheating Donald [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [commondreams.org] claims to be a Christian, but his actions aren't anything like what the Nazarean taught.
It should come as no surprise that he has no empathy for those persecuted Christians.
...or even knowledge of their existence.
Expecting a president who gets his "information" from cable TeeVee to be well-informed and make wise decisions is just silly.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 29 2017, @07:26PM
Second link first - looks like a partisan paid advertisement. FFS, MSM makes some claim that Obama is bringing in women and children. But - that's not what your first link says, either. The wives and the children didn't come until the fathers were on their way, as well.
That first link is pretty tough, really. They flew all the way here, only to be turned around. But - wait a second.
"According to the Assalis, their family members do not speak English very well and were told by authorities they could either be detained and have their visas taken away, or they could take the first flight back to Doha.
Frightened and facing a language barrier, the six family members chose the second option. Sarmad Assali told CNN she wished she had been able to speak with them, since she would have told them to stay until she could arrive with her attorney."
So, the Assalis weren't *exactly* "kicked out". They were given a choice between detention, or returning to whence they came. They chose to return. Now, if they had just left a hot war zone, why didn't they choose to stay in a relatively safe detention center, until things could be worked out one way or the other?
It's still a rough deal for them, but they chose.
Maybe they aren't actually flying back into the danger you paint?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @07:33PM
What a masterful display of motivated reasoning!
First, straight up widely reported facts are actually "partisan paid advertisement."
Because everybody knows reality has a well-known liberal bias. So who needs reality anyway?
Second "eh, fuck'em they were weak, tough shit!"
You are the best, man!
I think I saw you on American Horror Story: Freakshow.
You were the logical contortionist!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2017, @07:44PM
Yup, this is the example where Runaway goes from reasonable questions / points and wanders into the crazy zone. I'm all for personal responsibility, but you have to take extenuating circumstances into account. Instead, you double down on "their fault if they made a mistake" instead of "fucking fascists screwing with people's lives for no good reason". And it is no good reason, as many have pointed out the ban doesn't target the right countries and so does nothing to keep us safe. Not to mention that protecting against "terrorism" is statistically the worst allocation of resources possible.
Why would a family opt to take their chances in their home country instead of being "detained"? Gee, because many people detained in the US spend several years in detention along with the very real chances of abuse or even torture. Yeah, why would a responsible parent not send their kids into a foreign system they know nothing about? Come on Runaway, time to work on your "compassion" circuits.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday January 30 2017, @02:30AM
Or forced labor or extermination, as our own dear VLM has advocated. Let's hope that's a bridge too far for Trump's team.
Washington DC delenda est.