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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 09:59 PM Jan 2017

I've a friend who is on a cruise ship that's returning tomorrow and there are passengers who are

afraid they won't be able to disembark and go home.

He's posting from the ship scheduled to return tomorrow and there are people afraid. They've contacted the media and are aware that there is a protest planned for the ship terminal at Fort Lauderdale.

There's a cruise ship heading back that's full of pissed off Americans.

#Fucktrump

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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. There aren't any old conservatives on that boat
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 10:15 PM
Jan 2017

Not to be stereotypical or homophobic, it's a gay cruise and my friend has been posting pics and vids all week.

It's full of young, in shape people who raved all night every day.

It's now a big angry gay cruise, he says.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
7. AH thank you - ugh - hopefully FLA will get the word! Good luck to all on board!!
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 10:21 PM
Jan 2017

"The Stay is granted and is national".

Brother Buzz

(36,211 posts)
8. The ban has been temporarily lifted for now
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 10:26 PM
Jan 2017

So they should be good to go, but DAMN, I can't fathom the stress they have been having to endue

progree

(10,864 posts)
11. Not really. Will be detained rather than immediately sent back. That's better but still sux lots
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:30 PM
Jan 2017
Judge Blocks Part of Trumps Immigration Order. New York Times, 1/28/17

'A federal judge blocked part of President Trump’s executive order on immigration on Saturday evening, ordering that refugees and others trapped at airports across the United States should not be sent back to their home countries. But the judge stopped short of letting them into the country or issuing a broader ruling on the constitutionality of Mr. Trump’s actions.

Lawyers who sued the government to block the White House order said the decision, which came after an emergency hearing in a New York City courtroom, could affect an estimated 100 to 200 people who were detained upon arrival at American airports in the wake of the order that Mr. Trump signed on Friday afternoon, a week into his presidency.

Judge Ann M. Donnelly of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama, ruled just before 9 p.m. that implementing Mr. Trump’s order by sending the travelers home could cause them “irreparable harm.”

Dozens of people waited outside of the courthouse chanting, “Set them free!” as lawyers made their case. When the crowd learned that Judge Donnelly had ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, a rousing cheer went up in the crowd.

While none of the detainees will be sent back immediately, lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case expressed concern that all those at the airports would now be put in detention, pending a resolution of the case. Inviting the lawyers to return to court if the travelers were detained, Judge Donnelly said, “If someone is not being released, I guess I’ll just hear from you.”'

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html?


Credit: elleng http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016175764

phylny

(8,352 posts)
9. There was a man on my flight from the Caribbean this afternoon
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 10:34 PM
Jan 2017

who was not allowed to board.

Miami's airport looked like it was under seige with TSA/law enforcement everywhere.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
10. They are talking abou this more on MSNBC. Supposedly 'anyone with a legal visa etc. should be
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:00 PM
Jan 2017

allowed to enter the country...but it is not clear if they will be released to the community'.

You might want to have your friend tell the others to do some research what to expect.

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