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Trump Bars Door To Refugees, Visitors From Seven Mainly Muslim Nations

... important to do more screening. "I am pleased that President Trump is using the tools granted to him by Congress and the power granted by the Constitution to help keep America safe and ensure we know who is entering the United States," Goodlatte said in a statement. Without naming Trump, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticized steps towards cancelling world trade agreements. Trump on Wednesday ordered the construction of a U. S.-Mexican border wall, a major promise during his election campaign, as part of a package of measures to curb illegal immigration. "Today is not the time to erect walls between nations. They have forgotten that the Berlin wall fell years ago," Rouhani said in a speech carried live on Iranian state television. He made no direct reference to Trump's order regarding refugees and travelers from ...

Lawyers To Green Card Holders

... approved refugees and other immigrants with valid visas should apply nationally because it was filed on behalf of a national class of petitioners, but Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, said federal agents have not universally complied with it. “We continue to face Border Patrol noncompliance and chaos at every airport across the country and the world, despite the fact we had a great victory last night,” the told reporters on the same conference call on Sunday. The Burroughs restraining order is in effect for seven days; the court will schedule a hearing prior to its expiration. Lisa Wangsness can be reached at __link__. Loading comments. © 2017 Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. You're reading  1 of 5 free articles. Get UNLIMITED access for only 99¢ per week ...

Trump's Muslim Ban Is Keeping A Green Card Holder Stuck In Iran Away From His Kids

... Sabouri became a manager at a David’s Cookies store, before going on to pursue two master’s degrees from the New School for Social Research — where he is currently a Ph D candidate — and an MBA degree from Pace University. In 1979, Sabouri married his wife Taraneh, now a sociology professor at La Guardia Community College. They have two children: Monna, an actor and aspiring playwright, and Dariush, a freshman at New York City College of Technology. Sabouri created the Iranian Friendship Association of New York in 1986, to help low-income Iranian families and refugees receive medical treatments and social services. Trump's Muslim ban means that this American dream might be ripped away from Sabouri. He says he can’t grasp how Trump could enact such a discriminatory ban towards vetted legal permanent residents. “Why Mr. Trump?” he asked, addressing the president. “We’re not terrorists. My wife, ...

Legal Residents With Green Cards Warned Not To Leave U.s

... Civil Liberties Union Foundation and other legal groups, filed a lawsuit on Saturday on behalf of two Iraqi men with immigrant visas detained at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The two were blocked from entering the U. S. after Trump signed an executive order on Friday barring people from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya from entering the U. S. for 90 days. Trump’s order includes more – it will prevent green card holders from those nations traveling outside the U. S. from entry back into the U. S. A green card grants the holder the legal right to be a permanent resident of the U. S. At a White House briefing on Saturday, reporters were told green card holders from the seven listed nations who are currently outside the U. S “will need a case by case waiver to return to the ...

Utah News, Sports, Weather And Classifieds

... Utah politics, if he could just stay out of trouble. Daphne Chen and Jesse Hyde, Deseret News  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - 4:42 pm. The Utah speaker of the house is a brash, Trump-like figure on Capitol Hill. But he also attracts controversy and scandal. Group gathers to discuss spirituality in films at Sundance.  Sam Penrod  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - 4:00 pm. While people are lining up for screenings at the Sundance Film Festival, faith-based filmmakers and students are crowding into an LDS stake center to discuss the spiritual they see in the independent films. 'Miley's Bill' calls for felony child abuse registry.  Ryan Morgan  |  Posted  Jan 29 th - 3:21 pm. Rep. Derrin Owens, R-Fountain Green, has introduced HB 149, also known as "Miley's Bill." The bill proposes to add a child abuse registry to the existing sex offender registry website, providing ...

Iranian-born Green Card Holder Says He Was Detained, Released After Departing Cruise Ship At Port Everglades

... known instances of cruise ship passenger being subjected to further scrutiny upon re-entry to the country since President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that temporarily banned refugees, visa holders, and green card holders from seven majority Muslim nations, including Iran, from entering the United States. Maysam Sodagari, of San Francisco, a permanent resident who has lived in the U. S. for nine years, said he was singled out, ushered into a small interview room in the terminal and questioned by federal agents after arriving on the Allure of the Seas following a week-long cruise in the Caribbean. "I was very nervous, confused," said Sodagari, a researcher in biotechnology who said he has not been back to Iran since he emigrated to the U. S. A spokesperson for U. S. Customs and Border Protection did not respond to emails or phone calls Sunday. A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, issued an emergency stay Saturday night that temporarily blocks the government from sending people out of the country after they arrived in the U. S. with valid visas. Iranian-born green card holder says he was detained, released after departing cruise ship at Port ...

Donald Trump’s Travel Ban Sparks Protests, Confusion For Green Card Holders At Us Airports

... of people he wants,” Krikorian said. Some leaders from the U. S. technology industry, a major employer of foreign workers, issued warnings to their staff and called the order immoral and un-American. “This ban will impact many innocent people,” said Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber Technologies Inc UBER. UL, who said he would raise the issue at a White House meeting on Friday. Our CEO's reaction to immigration order: "We'll compensate drivers impacted by the ban pro bono for next 3 months." __link__/me CT 1 ah Ej H. — Uber (@Uber) January 29, 2017. In a memo sent to employees Saturday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company does not support Trump’s policy, noting that its HR and legal departments had been in contact with employees affected by the travel ban. “We have reached out to the White House to explain the negative effect on our coworkers ...

Refugees, Visa And Green Card Holders Detained, Turned Away At O'hare

... / Chicago Tonight). What began as a normal day at O’Hare International Airport slowly grew into a dizzying scene of demonstrators and pro-bono attorneys working feverishly to release travelers who had been detained by U. S. customs and border patrol officials. By 10:30 p.m. Saturday, all of the detainees had purportedly been released following a New York federal judge’s ruling blocking part of President Donald Trump’s executive order that put a halt to refugees entering the U. S. from seven predominantly Muslim countries. All of those who had been detained at O’Hare airport had green card status, advanced parole for green card status or United States travel visas, according to attorneys present. None were refugees. An Iranian citizen and Case Western Reserve University student said his wife and their 2-year-old daughter were detained upon their flight’s arrival at O’Hare airport at 9 a.m. Saturday. He was jubilant when they were both released by 10 p.m. Saturday. Mohammed Amirisefat of Park Ridge said he had been waiting for his sister, a U. S. resident of Iranian descent, brother-in-law, ...

Green Card Holders Won’t Be Subject To Travel Ban

... said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” that green card holders were detained at airports, handcuffed, their social media accounts reviewed, interrogated and “also asked their view on Donald Trump.”. “This is pretty scary,” Parsi said. Dems pledged to “battle” the ban legislatively and with public pressure. “We think this administration poses a real threat to our reputation, our values and our people,” said Sen. Tim Kaine [D-Va.] on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And we’re going to battle.”. Kaine called out the White House for issuing the ban the same day it eliminated reference to Jews from its statement Friday on Holocaust Remembrance Day. “The irony is not lost on me that it was issued the same day as the White House issued their Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation that unlike any previous administration removed all reference to Jews,” Kaine said. “So you put a religious test on Muslims and you try to scrub reference to Jews in the Holocaust Remembrance. This was horribly, horribly mishandled…. This is what Holocaust denial is.”. Priebus said he doesn’t regret the statement, but meant no ill-will. The ...

Amid Protests And Confusion, Trump Defends Executive Order

... to Trump ]. Trump, who centered his campaign in part on his vow to crack down on illegal immigration and to impose what became known as his “Muslim ban,’ remained unbowed Sunday. As White House officials insisted that the measure strengthens national security, the president stood squarely behind it. Just after 8 a.m. Sunday, Trump tweeted: “Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world — a horrible mess!”. Later in the morning, Trump tweeted, “Christians in the Middle-East have been executed in large numbers. We cannot allow this horror to continue!”. Many Americans agreed with Trump. “He doesn’t hate Muslims,” said Kelley Anne Finn of Manassas, Va., who was interviewed at Dulles airport Sunday. “He doesn’t hate anybody. He’s trying to protect us.”. Administration officials said Sunday that they think it is possible for the White House to both comply with a judge’s order and continue ...