The Department of Justice informed us of the Washington state court ruling barring the U. S. government from enforcing certain provisions of Executive Order 13769, including those related to visas and travel.





We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas under Executive Order 13769. Those individuals with visas that were not physically cancelled may now travel if the visa is otherwise valid.





We are working closely with the Department of Homeland Security and our legal teams.





We will provide further updates as soon as information is available.</s>The malevolence of President Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly—and perhaps only—by the astonishing incompetence of its drafting and construction.</s>NEW YORK - A federal judge has granted an emergency stay to allow travel detainees with valid visas to remain in the U.S.

The American Civil Liberties Union went to court following President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries for the next 90 days.

The district judge in Brooklyn sided with the ACLU, blocking part of the order that has kept refugees, immigrants and others in limbo at airports across the U.S.

The ruling stopped short of allowing all refugees and immigrants in -- just those who have arrived in the U.S. already and those who are in transit with valid visas to enter the U.S.

“We jumped into court, arguing that the accord was unconstitutional, that it was un-American, and that it flew in the face of established statutes that we have long regarded in this country,” ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said on Facebook.

The team of lawyers convinced the judge to hold all of the movements and efforts to deport individuals who have lawfully come into the country, including immigrants with green cards or those with visas, he said.

“The courts can work,” Romero added. “When President Trump enacts laws or executive orders that are unconstitutional and illegal, the courts are there to defend everyone’s right.”

Warning: This video may contain language that is not suitable for all agesACLU succeeds in blocking parts of executive order banning immigrants</s>After an emergency hearing in Brooklyn tonight, a federal judge put a stay on Trump's executive order banning people from 7 primarily Muslim countries from entering the country.

US District Judge Ann Donnelly issued the stay after holding the first hearing on a challenge to the order. Further proceedings in the case challenging the constitutionality of Trump’s order are set for February. The lawsuit was brought early Saturday on behalf of Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, two men detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport for several hours after their arrival at the airport in the wake of Trump’s signing of the ban. In addition to the two men, however, the group of lawyers backing the men also filed a motion to turn the lawsuit into a class action, which could result in protection for all of those who would be covered by the class. Later, they sought immediate action, filing a request that the court issue a stay of removal — an order preventing deportation — not only for the two men, but for the entire proposed class.

Lawyers have rushed to airports all over the country to file writs of habeas corpus for detained people from those countries, all of whom held valid visas.

In the judge's order, she found that "there is imminent danger that, absent the stay of removal, there will be substantial and irreparable injury to refugees, visa-holders, and other individuals from nations subject to the January 27, 2017 Executive Order."

The judge then ordered that the government was restrained from "removing individuals with refugee applications approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen legally authorized to enter the United States."

This is just the first step, of course. It doesn't invalidate the order, but it does stop the enforcement of it for the time being. There are some lawyers arguing that it's limited to those en route to the country only (detained in airports, etc), but I'm unclear on their reasoning for that and will update with any more information as I find it.

There will be more arguments on the constitutionality of the order as a whole, but for people who were barred from traveling and detained at airports, it's certainly a relief.

Update: A second stay has been granted by a different judge in Virginia staying a ban on those who hold green cards</s>A federal judge in New York has issued an emergency order temporarily barring the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly issued the order Saturday evening after lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a court petition on behalf of people who were detained at airports across the country as the ban took effect.

Cheers broke out in a crowd of demonstrators outside a Brooklyn courthouse as the decision, effective nationwide, was announced.

The order barred U.S. border agents from removing anyone who arrived in the U.S. with a valid visa from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

It also covered anyone with an approved refugee application.

It was unclear how quickly the order might affect people in detention.

Click here for the complete story from WHYY Newsworks</s>Protesters gather outside Terminal 4 at JFK airport in opposition to U.S. president Donald Trump's proposed ban on immigration in Queens, New York City, U.S., January 28, 2017.

A federal judge granted an emergency stay Saturday to bar deportation of people with valid visas who landed in the U.S., following chaos and detentions after President Donald Trump's executive order related to immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.



The American Civil Liberties Union estimates it will affect between 100 and 200 people detained at or in transit to U.S. airports, though they do not have to be released from detention. It did not, however, appear to cover Trump's full order, suspending visas from certain nations for 90 days.

The ACLU and other activist groups filed a class action lawsuit on Saturday, seeking to challenge the president's order, as acrimony widened over the policy and the number of detainees waylaid in transit appeared to swell. Demonstrations sprang up at airports around the country in response to the detentions.

"This ruling preserves the status quo and ensures that people who have been granted permission to be in this country are not illegally removed off U.S. soil," Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said in a statement.



A senior Homeland Security official said Saturday that the agency is monitoring the litigation and has not seen the stay, but will implement any appropriate orders accordingly. The officer said 109 travelers were denied entry into the U.S., while another 173 were stopped from boarding flights in the first 23 hours of the order.

Late Friday, the Trump administration announced that it would temporarily bar entry to refugees from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen due to terrorism concerns. The order seeks "extreme vetting" procedures for those it did allow to enter the U.S. In signing the order, Trump said he pledged to "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America."

In a habeus corpus petition filed Saturday in a New York federal court on behalf of two Iraqis detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the ACLU called Trump's move "unlawful." They were later released.

The case's two lead plaintiffs were held by authorities and threatened with deportation, the ACLU argued, even though both are authorized to enter the U.S. As a number of immigrants in transit were waylaid by the sudden shift in policy, spontaneous demonstrations erupted at JFK Airport on Saturday afternoon.

The ACLU's briefing called the ban a part of a "widespread pattern applied to many refugees and arriving aliens" in the wake of Trump's executive order. Critics have blasted it as a de facto ban on many Muslims entering the United States, though Trump denied that characterization Saturday.

"It's not a Muslim ban, but we were totally prepared. It's working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over," Trump said.

</s>U.S. judge allows travelers who landed with visas to stay in country

NEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York issued an emergency stay on Saturday that temporarily blocks the U.S. government from sending people out of the country after they have landed at a U.S. airport with valid visas.

The American Civil Liberties Union estimates the stay will affect 100 to 200 people detained at U.S. airports or in transit, but government lawyers could not confirm that number.

The ruling by Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York came during a hearing called after President Donald Trump issued an executive order blocking people from seven Muslim-majority from entering the United States and putting a temporary halt to refugee admissions. (Reporting by Mica Rosenburg, Writing by Frank McGurty; Editing by Nick Zieminski)</s>A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York issued an emergency stay on Saturday that temporarily blocks the US government from sending people out of the country after they have landed at a US airport with valid visas.

The American Civil Liberties Union estimates the stay will affect 100 to 200 people detained at US airports or in transit, but government lawyers could not confirm that number.

The ruling by Judge Ann Donnelly of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York came during a hearing called after President Donald Trump issued an executive order blocking people from seven Muslim-majority from entering the United States and putting a temporary halt to refugee admissions.</s>A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York issued an emergency stay on Saturday that temporarily blocks the U.S. government from sending people out of thecountry after they have landed at a U.S. airport with valid visas.</s>NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York has barred the U.S. from deporting travelers with valid visas covered by President Trump’s executive order.

The federal judge, in Brooklyn, issued an emergency stay on Saturday. It temporarily prevents the U.S. government from sending people out of the U.S. after they landed with valid vises at U.S. airports, Reuters reported.

The stay will affect between 100 and 200 people who are in transit or detained, the American Civil Liberties Union estimated. Government lawyers, however, couldn’t confirm the figure, according to Reuters.

Judge Ann Donnelly made the ruling on Saturday, a day after Mr. Trump signed an executive order that changed American immigration and refugee policies. The order banned people from seven countries with Muslim majorities from entering the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has not seen the judge’s order issuing an injunction and therefore could not say how it will change how they implement the president’s orders tomorrow, CBS News’ Paula Reid reported.
U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly in New York grants a stay of the executive order that allows people with valid visas who landed in the U.S. to temporarily remain in the country.