Trump immigration ban: Airport officials are already turning away visa holders and refugees

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Just hours after President Donald Trump signed his executive order on an immigration ban on refugees and those from certain Muslim-majority countries, people were already being turned away from the United States. 

Already, seven people, six from Iraq and one from Yemen, were turned away on Saturday, stopped from boarding a plane from Cairo, Egypt. And on Friday, two Iraqis were detained after arriving in JFK airport in New York.

Of the two Iraqi detainees, one, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, has been working in Iraq on behalf of the United States government for years, while the other, Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, was on his way to join his wife and child in the United States.

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After the executive order was signed, the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee tweeted out this description of the after-effects: “Visas being denied immediately. Chaos at airports and in the air. #MuslimBan will apply to green card holders attempting to return tonight.”

The order has created a state of limbo for many people, including refugees who were already coming to the United States and had been approved to come as well as those who have green cards but are being denied re-entry into the United States.

The ban put a 90-day freeze on visas and immigration from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. It also banned refugee entry into the United States for the next 120 days and declared that refugees from Syria would not be allowed entry until future notice. In the order, the Trump administration declared that the steps were being taken “to protect its citizens from foreign nationals who intend to commit terrorist attacks in the United States; and to prevent the admission of foreign nationals who intend to exploit United States immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”

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