U.S. judge grants stay against Trump’s travel ban

President Donald Trump’s travel ban barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations entry into the USA has sparked protests around the country.

The federal court for the Eastern District of NY issued an emergency stay halting deportations under President Donald Trump’s executive order.

The federal judge’s emergency stay could affect 100 to 200 people detained at US airports, including at least 12 detained at O’Hare.

“Saskatoon has a long history of being a safe place of arrival for people seeking refuge, beginning with the welcome by First Nations people to the first settlers on this land”, said Clark.

HUNDREDS and thousands of fuming Americans have flooded the streets in protest against Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.

It didn’t take long for these orders to be implemented as commuters from those 7 Muslim nations have already been either barred from getting on their flights or detained at U.S. airports after landing.

A law enforcement source told The Times that 13 people had been detained at Terminal 2 on Saturday night, but each of them held a green card and was eventually let in.

The executive order the president signed on Friday bars Syrian refugees indefinitely and halts the country’s refugee resettlement program for four months.

“America is a free country to everyone; Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and all the people looking for freedom”.

Betsy Fisher, policy director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, said the group had started preparing to handle this kind of situation when they saw a leaked draft of Trump’s order earlier this week.

“Let the lawyers in, let the families out!” was one of many chants that echoed through the airport’s global terminal.

“This is insane. I mean, there’s an 18-month-old USA citizen who’s been in secondary inspection – basically in detention – for like seven hours”.

She says the location of the protest is significant – “showing that we are a community that welcomes refugees and don’t want them out”.

“Imagine being put back on a 12-hour flight and the trauma and craziness of this whole thing”, said immigration attorney Mana Yegani to Rueters.

Dozens of refugees and citizens of the seven nations listed in the ban were traveling to the US after it was enacted and have been detained at several airports, including San Francisco, almost 50 passengers alone at Dallas, Dulles and two at JFK who, earlier, were not allowed to even meet with attorneys.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Evanston, reached by phone Saturday night, said she was almost in a state of “disbelief, ” seeing what was happening at airports across the country. “It’s absolutely appalling that someone would be detained when they’re already a US resident”.