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| Donald Trump immigration ban: More than 100,000 visas revoked after travel restrictions imposed on seven Muslim-majority countries | Donald Trump immigration ban: More than 100,000 visas revoked after travel restrictions imposed on seven Muslim-majority countries |
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| More than 100,000 visas have been revoked from travellers heading to the US under Donald Trump's travel ban, according to court documents. | More than 100,000 visas have been revoked from travellers heading to the US under Donald Trump's travel ban, according to court documents. |
| The Washington Post reported the figure, citing a government attorney at a federal court hearing in Virginia. | The Washington Post reported the figure, citing a government attorney at a federal court hearing in Virginia. |
| The number was revealed during a hearing for a lawsuit filed by two Yemeni brothers who flew in to Dulles International Airport on Friday and were put on a return flight to Ethiopia. | The number was revealed during a hearing for a lawsuit filed by two Yemeni brothers who flew in to Dulles International Airport on Friday and were put on a return flight to Ethiopia. |
| NBC News' Washington affiliate also reported the same number from the hearing. | |
| It is not yet clear who has been affected or what countries they came from. | |
| The executive order, signed by President Trump last Friday, indefinitely suspended Syrian refugees, and barred nearly all travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries - Iran, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Somalia, Libya and Sudan - for 90 days and blocked refugees for 120 days. | |
| Within hours of the order being signed, there was widespread confusion around the country, including in neighbouring countries such as Canada and Mexico. | |
| Hundreds of people who had flown to the US from the seven nations while the order was being signed were detained and placed in handcuffs at airports, questioned for hours, and many of them sent back on a return flight. No clear guidance had been sent to airports or airlines; there were also questions of dual citizenship and no exceptions laid out for people who lived and worked in the US or who were travelling to receive emergency medical treatment. | |
| The ban also entangled US university students from abroad, and tore families apart who, within hours, became standed by the signing of Mr Trump's pen. | |
| Thanks to massive protests at airports around the country like at John F Kennedy Airport in New York, several detainees were freed, including an Iraqi man who had worked as a translator for many years for the US military and whose family lived in the US. | |
| Civil rights groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations were outraged at the order, which they deemed unconstitutional and targeting the most vulnerable sectors of society. | |
| At least four states filed lawsuits to challenge the constitutionality of the executive order. In California and Michigan, federal judges ordered the order could not ban lawful, permanent US residents or green card holders who had also been caught up in the ban. | |
| Steve Bannon, Mr Trump's chief strategist, was said to be behind the green card mandate, and he had overruled the Department of Homeland Security. The unelected adviser is now a permanent member of the National Security Council. | |
| Once the refugee resettlement programme is resumed, the US has vowed to only take in 50,000 people in one fiscal year. | |
| Mr Trump has consistently defended the ban, saying it would prevent "bad people" with "bad intent" from coming to the US. | |
| House Speaker Paul Ryan also defended the ban, saying it made sense for the US to take a pause and review its vetting procedures, but said the roll-out of the order was done poorly and the confusion it caused was "regrettable". | |
| A report from the Cato Institute found that there had been no Syrian-related terrorist event in more than four decades on US soil, and countries that had carried out larger attacks in the US, such as Saudi Arabia or Egypt, were not featured on Mr Trump's hit list. |