Over 100,000 Visas Revoked Due To Trump Travel Ban
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 3, 2017
Over 100,000 visas have been revoked following President Trump’s ban on travel from seven mostly Muslim countries the WaPo and NBC reported citing a government attorney in Alexandria federal court Friday. The attorney, Erez Reuveni from the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation, did not say how many people with visas were sent back to their home countries in response to the travel ban. However, he said no returning legal permanent residents have been denied entry.
Reuveni told the court on Friday that in addition to the 60 people who were allegedly stripped of their legal status and deported, some 100,000 others have had their visas revoked since last Friday, when Trump signed an executive order barring citizens of Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen from entering the US for 90 days while the federal government revisits its screening processes.
The number was revealed during a hearing in a lawsuit filed by attorneys for two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport last Saturday. They allege they were forced into giving up their legal resident visas, they argue, and quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia. According to the lawsuit, they were detained by Customs and Border Protection agents at Dulles Airport and “forced to sign” I-407 forms “against their will and without their knowledge or consent.”
“The Immigration and Nationality Act provides no way to legally effectuate such a ban against this category of immigrants,” the Virginia lawsuit states. “Congress has provided that immigrants in petitioners’ situation are entitled to enter the United States, and that if the government disagrees, it must institute regular removal proceedings before an immigration judge.”
“The number 100,000 sucked the air out of my lungs,” said Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg of the Legal Aid Justice Center, who represents the brothers. Others meanwhile have said that Trump is merely doing what he promised, and that his immigration “ban” has been seen approvingly by a plurality of the US population as a recent Reuters poll found.
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