For now, anyone with a valid visa for the U.S. from any country will be allowed in through U.S. airports. How long this will be true is debatable, however. The problem being "How much authority in the end does the president have?" But, if it can be proven he was discriminating against any one religion like the Muslims, Trump will fail in court and the Executive order will be declined and become invalid.
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Airlines, federal agencies, foreign travelers and others scrambled …
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US agencies, airlines dash to respond to judge's immigration ruling; Justice Department files notice of appeal
Now Playing New look at President Trump's agenda after second week
Airlines,
federal agencies, foreign travelers and others scrambled throughout
Saturday in response to a weekend court order blocking President Trump’s
immigration ban -- almost identical to the international response last
weekend after Trump issued the executive order that temporarily stopped
travelers, immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim
countries from entering the U.S.
A
federal judge late Friday in Seattle issued the temporary halt to
Trump's order. And by early afternoon, the departments of State and
Homeland Security effectively said that they had responded accordingly.
However,
the U.S. Department of Justice annoucned that it had filed a formal
appeal of the Seattle ruling Saturday night with the 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals.
President
Trump, at Mar-a-Lago for the weekend with the first lady to attend the
Red Cross Ball, had this to say when a pool reporter asked if has
confident he would prevail in court: "We'll win," he replied. "For the
safety of our country, we'll win."
The
State Department said it had reversed cancelling visas for related
foreigners, after provisionally revoking as many as 60,000 of them to
comply with Trump's Jan. 27 order.
Then
Homeland Security announced that it would no longer be directing
airlines to prevent visa-holders affected by the order from boarding
U.S.-bound planes.
The agency also said that it had suspended “any and all actions" related to putting in place the terms of the order.
However,
by late Saturday afternoon, the response from international airlines
still appeared in flux. Several were honoring the temporary halt, while
some immigrants were still having trouble boarding planes to America.
Royal
Jordanian, for example, had resumed flights from six of the seven
countries -- Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iran and Somalia -- as long as
people presented valid visas or green cards.
But
African immigration lawyer Julie Goldberg was struggling Saturday to
arrange flights at Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport for stranded
Yemeni citizens with visas.
And
Goldberg said she was told by Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines that
immigrants from the seven countries are still not being allowed to fly.
Trump’s
executive order also halted a refugee program from the seventh country,
war-torn Syria. He issued the temporary ban following his winning
campaign promise to further protect Americans from what he calls
"radical Islamic terrorism."
Like
last weekend, when thousands of air travelers were detained at U.S.
airports because the executive order was issued with no clear warning,
widespread, peaceful demonstrations broke out Saturday.
They occurred again in New York and Washington, D.C., and in such places as Philadelphia, London and Paris.
Trump
went Saturday afternoon to his Florida getaway, Mar-a-Lago, where he’ll
attend a Red Cross gala. But protests are also forming outside the Palm
Beach County resort.
Later
in the day Saturday, Trump said on Twitter: "What is our country coming
to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone,
even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?" He added that "very bad
and dangerous" people may now come into the U.S. because of the judge's
"terrible" ruling.
Earlier,
Trump called the judge who issued the temporary restraining order a
“so-called judge” and vowed that the order would be “overturned!”
Trump’s tweet about Robart also resulted in criticism from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“The
president's attack … shows a disdain for an independent judiciary that
doesn't always bend to his wishes and a continued lack of respect for
the Constitution,” the New York Democrat said.
Trump’s
tweet also followed White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer releasing a
statement late Friday saying the administration "will file an emergency
stay of this outrageous order and defend the executive order of the
president, which we believe is lawful and appropriate."
Soon after, the White House sent out a new statement that removed the word "outrageous."
"The
president's order is intended to protect the homeland and he has the
constitutional authority and responsibility to protect the American
people," the statement said.
The
halt late Friday was issued by U.S. District Judge James Robart in
Seattle, who is an apointee of George W. Bush. He said that Washington
state and Minnesota had standing to challenge Trump's executive order on
immigration. So he issued the temporary, nationwide restraining order
based on his opinion that the states showed their case is likely to
succeed.
Washington became the first state to sue over the order, and Minnesota joined the lawsuit two days later.
Federal
attorneys had argued that Congress gave the president authority to make
decisions on national security and immigrant entry.
The
two states won a temporary restraining order while the court considers
the lawsuit, which aims to permanently block Trump's order. Court
challenges have been filed nationwide from states and advocacy groups.
Justice Department lawyers say about 100,000 visas -- not 60,000 -- had been revoked.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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