Trump Immigration Order to Be Blocked Temporarily Nationwide
Trump Immigration Order to Be Blocked Temporarily Nationwide
by Elizabeth Amon
and Kartikay Mehrotra
February 3, 2017, 3:47 PM PST February 3, 2017, 4:08 PM PST
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Demonstrators hold signs and chant in Boston’s Copley Square protesting President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking visitors from seven predominantly Muslim nations on Jan. 29, 2017.
Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions were temporarily blocked nationwide by a federal judge who said the states of Washington and Minnesota can sue claiming their residents were harmed by the ban.
The ruling came after a federal judge in Boston on Friday refused to extend a temporary ruling blocking enforcement at that city’s airport of Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. The administration has also been sued over the order in Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles and Alexandria, Virginia.
U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle rejected a request by the federal government to put his temporary restraining order on hold. The judge told them he would help expedite an appeal.
Robart’s ruling is among the most comprehensive legal admonishments of Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order prohibiting immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Syria and four other nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days. The court order, effective immediately, will remain in place until the judge considers a motion to permanently invalidate the president’s order, Washington State Attorney general Bob Ferguson said in a statement.The case is State of Washington v. Trump, 17-cv-00141, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington (Seattle).
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