Court Rules Migrants at Immigration Detention Centers Be Allowed In.....
January 29 2017 By Abiodun Giwa
A Brooklyn court has ruled that migrants in various immigration detention centers, who have been disallowed entry, following the signing of an executive order, barring certain migrants from the United States, be allowed in.
The ruling follows a petition by the ACLU on behalf of two iraqis, who have been detained at the JFK. Judge Ann M. Donnely's ruling, according to the Los angeles' Times, says that any refugees or others with valid visas, can remain.
The court's order affects about 100 t0 200 migrants, who have been held at various detention centers around the country, immediately after the signing of the order by President Donald Trump, according to news reports.
Obviously, many people had gone through check in procedure or about to board flights at various airports in affected countries, when the president signed the order.
Many people would have been in the air as well and other would have been arriving at the same moment. And according to the immigration, all those who arrived immediately after the president's order were not allowed into the country, but were detained. It is such migrants that the court order has affected to be allowed into the country.
As we reported on Friday, there have been opposition from various pro-migration groups, criticizing the president's order. And as the New York Times reported on Sunday, the court's order stopped short of letting people caught in the web of the hours the president signed the order and detention at various airports into the country and has not issued a broader ruling on constitutionality of the government order.Therefore, the court order is not a clear ban or stoppage of any provision in the government clampdown on migration on affected countries.
What is playing out has just started, observers say. They believe that the constitutionality of the order banning Muslims from seven Islamic nation would face constitutionality challenges in court. How it plays out will be there to be seen by all.
Of course, people say that the massive demonstration at the JFK airport in New York, in support of arriving migrants, who have been unfortunately detained, because of the mix up in the time of the signing of the order and their time of arrival, bares witness to the battle royale ahead, concerning government's immigration decision and the people's wishes.
Today, about 8000 protesters are expected at the Battery Park in Downtown Manhattan over the same immigration issue and companies around there are frantically putting security measures in place to protect their premises.
The ruling follows a petition by the ACLU on behalf of two iraqis, who have been detained at the JFK. Judge Ann M. Donnely's ruling, according to the Los angeles' Times, says that any refugees or others with valid visas, can remain.
The court's order affects about 100 t0 200 migrants, who have been held at various detention centers around the country, immediately after the signing of the order by President Donald Trump, according to news reports.
Obviously, many people had gone through check in procedure or about to board flights at various airports in affected countries, when the president signed the order.
Many people would have been in the air as well and other would have been arriving at the same moment. And according to the immigration, all those who arrived immediately after the president's order were not allowed into the country, but were detained. It is such migrants that the court order has affected to be allowed into the country.
As we reported on Friday, there have been opposition from various pro-migration groups, criticizing the president's order. And as the New York Times reported on Sunday, the court's order stopped short of letting people caught in the web of the hours the president signed the order and detention at various airports into the country and has not issued a broader ruling on constitutionality of the government order.Therefore, the court order is not a clear ban or stoppage of any provision in the government clampdown on migration on affected countries.
What is playing out has just started, observers say. They believe that the constitutionality of the order banning Muslims from seven Islamic nation would face constitutionality challenges in court. How it plays out will be there to be seen by all.
Of course, people say that the massive demonstration at the JFK airport in New York, in support of arriving migrants, who have been unfortunately detained, because of the mix up in the time of the signing of the order and their time of arrival, bares witness to the battle royale ahead, concerning government's immigration decision and the people's wishes.
Today, about 8000 protesters are expected at the Battery Park in Downtown Manhattan over the same immigration issue and companies around there are frantically putting security measures in place to protect their premises.