Following President Trumps executive order green card, visa holders already blocked by airports

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: New York Daily News

Within hours of President Trump’s executive order limiting immigration from Muslim countries, green card and visa holders were already being blocked from getting on flights to the U.S.

The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee said people who had already landed were being sequestered at airports and told they have to return to their point of origin.
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People who were still in the air as of 10:30 p.m. likely face being blocked at the airport when their planes land, he said.
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"We had a few folks land who landed right around the time the order was issued, who were permitted to go through. I guess it was the luck of the draw.”



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-order-blocks-green-card-visa-holders-airports-article-1.2957910

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Google has been trying to get staff back into the USA: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38781420

[hlthe2b]

1. gasp...

[HoneyBadger]

2. This is pissing me off

So if you are coming from these countries, you are on the no fly list? How about flying to Canada and walking through the border crossing?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Since they were asking non-Americans coming from Canada if they were marching last weekend

and turning back if they said 'yes', I doubt that would help. I don't think the Canadian border is held to a lower standard these days.

[HoneyBadger]

13. Then stay in Canada

At least try. If America does not want somebody, it is America's loss. I am sure that Google is planning to move a lot of their employees out of California at this minute. They can buy a campus anywhere in the world that they want to.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. He is such an idiot.

A man who makes profit based on his global reach, is closing our borders down.

This isn't going to make America great. It's going to take us out of contention for growth.

[sarah FAILIN]

21. I hope his hotels empty out and golf courses grow kudzu on the greens

Big garish mausoleums all over the world completely empty. That is how you piss this man off, take his money. When other countries figure this out he will really be mad.

[babylonsister]

5. So no one but dt has to approve of this before it's a done deal? nt

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

6. There needs to be a massive organized protest

Directed at all lawmakers, demanding impeachment. Instead of taking the protests to the streets take them to the doorsteps of lawmakers. Protest their offices, their homes, anywhere they go. Do it every day, all day...follow them everywhere. Spam their email, spam their phone lines...don't leave them alone until they get rid of the orange asshole.

[Fast Walker 52]

7. this is FASCISM and insane! Greencard holders???

There's a LOT of scientists and professionals doing important work on greencards. Jesus christ.

[OKNancy]

8. Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges to Trumps Immigration Order

Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges to Trump’s Immigration Order

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0


President Trump’s executive order closing the nation’s borders to refugees was put into immediate effect Friday night. Refugees who were in the air on the way to the United States when the order was signed were stopped and detained at airports.

The detentions prompted legal challenges as lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees held at Kennedy Airport filed a writ of habeas corpus early Saturday in the Eastern District of New York seeking to have their clients released. At the same time, they filed a motion for class certification, in an effort to represent all refugees and immigrants who they said were being unlawfully detained at ports of entry.

Mr. Trump’s order, which suspends entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, created a legal limbo for individuals on the way to the United States and panic for families who were awaiting their arrival.

Mr. Trump’s order also stops the admission of refugees from Syria indefinitely, and it bars entry into the United States for 90 days from seven predominantly Muslim countries linked to concerns about terrorism. Those countries are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

[yodermon]

9. Wait. GREEN CARD holders?

This can't possibly be legal. An executive order can't just nullify a green card, a green card has force of law.
My wife is a green card holder. Fuck this shit and sideways.

[underpants]

10. Wow I'm sorry

What a re horrible situation of uncertainty you all must be going through. This is just plain nuts and it's all for grandstanding to his base.

[NYC Liberal]

11. Fortunately, it's not:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/trumps-immigration-ban-is-illegal.html?_r=0

Mr. Trump appears to want to reinstate a new type of Asiatic Barred Zone by executive order, but there is just one problem: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 banned all discrimination against immigrants on the basis of national origin, replacing the old prejudicial system and giving each country an equal shot at the quotas. In signing the new law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said that “the harsh injustice” of the national-origins quota system had been “abolished.”

Not the Trump and the GOP care about those pesky "laws".

This will almost certainly be struck down -- but it's anyone's guess how long that will take.

[Fast Walker 52]

12. this cannot stand legally but it's going to hell until it gets cleared up

fucking Trump and his people are fucking evil, insane and clueless.

This will affect SO MANY people, and mostly professionals.

[HoneyBadger]

15. Not mostly professionals, at least not mostly work visas

Refugees are not coming on work visas. It will affect travel to Hajj this summer bigly.

[Kablooie]

14. This is the beginning.

His decrees are annoying But once they start to actually cause pain in people's lives it becomes real. This is the start of real world consequences and we are going to see a quick escalation from disgust to actual horror.
Wait till the deportations start.

This is going to get Real.
Real bad.

Four legs good. Two legs Bad!

[HoneyBadger]

16. I predict an Underground Railroad

Taking refugees somewhere safe like Canada or Mexico, because America is no longer safe for even the refugees that are already here. Read the tea leaves.

[OnlinePoker]

18. Won't be safe in Canada

I predict he will invade here within the next 4 years.

[HoneyBadger]

19. It is a stepping stone

Once Canada and Mexico give Americans refugee status, they can move further. Before WW2, the Jews knew the deal before 1932, there was a decade to get out.

[Hugin]

17. "Make Smuggling Great Again."

True to his Mob Origins... Ol' Yeller is putting the profit back into Prohibition.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. It affects people with dual nationality, too

A state department spokesman confirmed that travellers from the named countries who have dual nationality will not be able to enter the US for 90 days.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/28/airports-us-immigration-ban-muslim-countries-trump

So, for instance, Iman, if Wikipedia is correct that she's a dual Somali and American citizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_%28model%29

If the countries allowed it, all kinds of people may have held dual citizenship from the USA and one of these countries, possibly for decades. And it presumably also applies to people with dual citizenship from an 'acceptable' country and one of Trump's "pariahs", like Zeinab Badawi, a prominent British journalist (Wikipedia lists her nationality just as 'Sudanese', though she's worked in British TV for over 30 years).