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US President Donald Trump’s immigration order against people from some Muslim-majority countries has hit a roadblock as a US judge issued an emergency order temporarily barring authorities from deporting refugees and other visa holders who have been detained.
Hearing a petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, US District Judge Ann Donnelly in New York issued the emergency order today.
The petition was filed on behalf of two Iraqi men detained at the John F Kennedy International Airport as the immigration ban took effect triggering protests at major airports across the country. The Judge ordered that the government could not remove individuals with refugee applications approved by US Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the US Refugee Admissions Programme. The judge ordered the government to provide lists of all those detained at US airports since the measure went into effect.
The judge said that sending those travellers back to their countries following Trump’s order exposes them to substantial and irreparable injury.
The order barred US border agents from removing anyone who reached US with a valid visa from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. It also covered anyone with an approved refugee application.
President Trump yesterday ordered extreme vetting of people entering the US from the seven countries and banned the entry of Syrian refugees until further notice, as part of new measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of America.