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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: 2) by edIII on Monday January 30 2017, @09:10PM
For some of the Trump supporters, it is absolutely more productive to tell them to fuck off. These are the people that no amount of science, no amount of evidence based reasoning, no amount of facts, no amount of discussion WILL EVER move them away from fear based reasoning and blind obedience to authoritarianism in accordance with their burgeoning ethnocentrism.
These are the people that cannot have a productive discussion at all. Unable to debate, even a little, and ONLY capable of the most juvenile and intellectual debased behaviors. That applies to some fuckers around here like linkdude64whatthefuckhisnameis. That infuriating joy in a delusional concept of "winning", while ALL THE WHILE BEING IN THE DANGER YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE SUGGESTS. They literally cannot acknowledge the big huge fucking cliff we have steered the bus called America towards. You're in horror, perhaps with real tears, begging them to look and see the cliff, and they can only take the time to troll you. Sometimes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can only drown the sob trying to get them to drink. What's so fucked, and why I'm so ANGRY, is that they're taking us down with them.
Yes, they can fuck off and die in a fire. These are the DEPLORABLES that Hillary mentioned that can only act like racist, bigoted, misogynistic alpha male dickwads. You tell them, "Ummm, hey dude. The sky might be falling here, and by falling, I mean actual evidence we have a problem". The response? "Haha, you fucking lost. Just get over it. Liberal tears! mmmmmmmmmmm". Meanwhile, we are ALL OF ON THE FUCKING BUS HEADING TO THE CLIFF AND THEY ARE CELEBRATING LIKE THE DELUSIONAL DEPLORABLE MONKEYS THEY ARE. I see them suffering from the same mental, and societal, failures that lead to the children killing Piggy in The Lord Of The Flies. Yeah, talking works real with these dickheads.
There are poor people who don't fall for that bullshit and still have well thought out and principled positions. Not all poor people are instantly the deplorables that prop up the Child Emperor. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, those RACIST SCUM need to lie in the bed they made.
Poor, rich, or middle class, there are some Trump supporters (which i referenced) that can be spoke too and dealt with. I haven't, in a blanket fashion, kicked out all Trump supporters out my life. Just the ones that cannot, and will not, speak reasonably and are fucking obsessed with Islam, Big Media, and killing the towelheads. No time for that bullshit.
For the record, the reasonable Trump supporters are ALL SILENT AND NOT SAYING SHIT. A good many of them made the decision like The Mighty Buzzard to vote out of fear and specific hate for the Establishment. I actually share Bannon's sentiment of completely destroying the Establishment, but I cannot condone his White Nationalism while doing it.
The Trump supporters that actually have a fucking brain and want real positive change, I can speak with and offer my hand in friendship and cooperation. The fucking deplorables that can only act like the aggressive gone-full-retard monkeys that they are, can go fucking die painfully. Hopefully, quite soon.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.