Trump deportations blocked, protests on

Washington, January 29

In a significant blow to US President Donald Trump, a US judge has issued an emergency order staying deportations for people who have arrived in America with valid visas from seven Muslim-majority nations but were detained on entry due to the immigration ban.

US District Judge Ann Donnelly in New York issued the emergency order after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a petition on behalf of two Iraqi men detained at the Kennedy International Airport as thousands joined demonstrations at airports across America to protest over Trump’s immigration ban on Muslims.

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Judge Donnelly,  appointed by Barack Obama, ordered that the government could not remove “individuals with refugee applications approved by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, holders of valid visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen legally authorised to enter the US.”

She ordered the government to provide lists of all those detained at US airports. The judge said sending those travellers back to their home countries following Trump’s order exposes them to “substantial and irreparable injury.” — PTI