Sunday, January 29, 2017

A US federal judge has blocked part of President Donald Trump's controversial executive order barring citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for the next 90 days.

This is nevertheless being ignored as the Judge did not rule on the constitutionality of the Presidents executive order

CNN ....

A US federal judge has blocked part of President Donald Trump's controversial executive order barring citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for the next 90 days.

Amid global turmoil, the judge ruled that authorities could not deport citizens of the seven countries who had already arrived in the US with valid visas, or who were in transit.

The ruling was made after the American Civil Liberties Union brought a challenge on behalf of two Iraqis detained at John F Kennedy airport in New York on Friday night, hours after Trump issued his executive order at the White House, banning entry to people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.