Kelly Says Green Card Holders Won’t Be Stopped by Travel Ban

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said green-card holders from the predominantly Muslim Middle East countries covered by an executive order on travel won't be stopped from returning to the U.S., as criticism mounted over President Donald Trump's action. Trump defended Friday's order, which halted entry to the U.S. from seven countries for 90 days, after judges blocked parts of the plan and companies, lawmakers and foreign leaders weighed in.

Lawsuit trying to stop destruction of municipal ID records under review :0

Two Congressional committees are reviewing a lawsuit seeking to stop the city from destroying municipal-ID card records , sources told The Post. Officials with the Senate Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Investigations and the House Committee on Homeland Security have received copies of a suit seeking to preserve such records and are discussing whether to investigate Mayor de Blasio's policy that seeks to destroy them, sources said.

McCain, Graham lead in GOP criticism of Trump ban, many others stay mum

FEBRUARY 14: U.S. Senator John McCain , and Senator Lindsey Graham speak to the press during a news conference on the terror attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi February 14, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The senators questioned why the Obama Administration did not seek enough help from the Libya government during the attack.

Trump to honour refugee swap deal with Australia – source

U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that his administration will honour a refugee resettlement deal with Australia, Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Monday. Trump spoke by telephone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday, officials in both countries said, one of a number of conversations the new U.S. president held with world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Most religious groups come out against Trump refugee order

Liz Glusman, from Washington, joins a crowd protesting in Lafayette Park near the White House during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority... . Protesters carry signs and chant in Lafayette Park near the White House during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from enteri... .

Mexico summons Israeli envoy over Netanyahu’s wall comment

Israel's Ambassador to Mexico, Jonathan Peled, was summoned on Sunday for a reprimand following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's comment in which he appeared to support President Donald Trump's plan to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Channel 10 News reported that it was Mexico's Foreign Minister himself who summoned Peled, a sign of Mexico's outrage over the incident.

The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump

Picking on immigrants and refugees is the act of a sadistic bully, since they are the one fairly large group of residents of the United States whose constitutional rights are disputed. The executive order Trump signed late on Friday suspending entrance to the United States for citizens of seven countries and cancelling the US refugee program for four months is probably illegal.

Inslee calls Trump order ‘cruelty;’ protests at Sea-Tac

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee blasted President Donald Trump's executive order banning people from certain Muslim-majority nations as "unjustifiable cruelty," and about 1,000 pro-immigration protesters gathered Saturday at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Attorneys from the ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project said a Somali national was not allowed to enter and two other people were detained at the airport.

How Trump’s abrupt immigration ban sowed confusion at airports, agencies

After immigration agents detained two Iraqis on Saturday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, their lawyers and two U.S. representatives accompanying them tried to cross into a secure area - and were stopped themselves. A few minutes later, Heidi Nassauer, chief of passenger operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the airport, was called over.

Trumpa s Immigration Ban Sends Shockwaves

President Donald Trump's seismic move to ban more than 130 million people from the United States and to deny entry to all refugees reverberated worldwide Saturday, as chaos and confusion rippled through US law enforcement agencies, airports and foreign capitals trying to grasp the US's new policy. Trump's executive order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for the next 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days.

The Latest: Judge stays enforcement of Trump travel ban

The Latest on U.S. President Donald Trump and his ban on refugees from Muslim-majority countries : A federal judge in New York has issued an emergency order temporarily barring the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump's travel ban. U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly issued the order Saturday evening after lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a court petition on behalf of people from seven predominantly Muslim nations who were detained at airports across the country as the ban took effect.

Federal judge blocks deportations mandated by Trump’s order

Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from the ACLU to stay deportations of those detained on entry to the United States following President Donald Trump's executive order. After a brief hearing in front of a small audience that filtered in from a crowd of hundreds outside, Donnelly determined that the risk of injury to those detained by being returned to their home countries necessitated the decision.

Nation-Now 22 mins ago 9:48 p.m.ACLU blocks Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban

Protesters gather at JFK International Airport's Terminal 4 on Jan. 28, 2017, to demonstrate against President Trump's executive order to suspend refugee arrivals. President Trump's ban on immigration by citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries ran into at least a temporary roadblock Saturday night, after a U.S. District judge in Brooklyn granted an emergency stay sought by immigrants' rights lawyers.