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dcnovice -> RE: ACLU blocks Trump's unconstitutional Muslim ban (1/29/2017 7:05:09 PM)
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This is the latest coverage I could find of the detainees at Dulles.
A few excerpts below. Emphases mine.
Despite that order, throughout [Saturday] evening it was reported that attorneys still hadn’t been let into the areas in which the detainees were being held by CBP. By about 1 a.m. Sunday, it appeared that all but one of the people they were holding had been allowed to enter the country, in part because Sen. Cory Booker went to Dulles at midnight and demanded that he be allowed to communicate with the detainees.
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Reports abound of lawful immigrants who have been turned away, denied access to medication, and prevented from speaking to counsel. The Aziz brothers’ story is particularly stunning because, says Sandoval-Moshenberg, not only were they handcuffed while they were detained by CBP at Dulles, and not only were they turned away and sent to Ethiopia, but they were also made to sign a form, known as the I-407. In doing so, they surrendered their green cards, under the threat of being barred from the U.S. for the next five years if they did not.
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As the weekend’s events were unspooling, no one even knew whether the executive order applied to green cards. As this CNN report notes, “Friday night, DHS arrived at the legal interpretation that the executive order restrictions applying to seven countries—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen—did not apply to people with lawful permanent residence, generally referred to as green card holders. The White House overruled that guidance overnight, according to officials familiar with the rollout.” And then on Sunday morning, Reince Priebus said that the order actually doesn’t apply to people with green cards.
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And immigration officials have told more than one detainee that if they don’t like their treatment, they should “call Mr. Trump.”
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Lawyers at Dulles on Sunday tell me that CBP is simply refusing to answer any of their questions anymore.
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For Tareq and Ammar Aziz, the fact that their lawyers scored a big win in Virginia on Saturday night doesn’t change the fact that they are in an airport in Ethiopia today, stranded without passports, and still do not have a home.
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