Airports becoming legal war rooms after Trump’s immigration order

Source: fox2now.com - Monday, January 30, 2017
The Central Diner at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 30, 2017. (Avi Asher-Schapiro/Tribune Media) by Avi Asher-Schapiro The Central Diner restaurant in the arrivals hall of New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport resembled a law office on Monday morning: dozens of lawyers and translators worked the phones and inhaled Dunkin Donuts coffee while portable printers spat out documents. Theirs was just one of nearly a dozen such makeshift legal war rooms that immigration attorneys set up at airports across the country beginning on Friday evening, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order halting the United States refugee program, and temporarily barring travelers with valid visas from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. Trump’s order caused mass confusion on Friday. The text didn’t originally specify how the ban would be applied to the wide range of visas—green cards for legal permanent residents, students visas, fiancée visas, or temporary work permits—that various arriving travelers might have. “There was total confusion about who this even applied to,” said Liz Budnitz, an immigration lawyer from Brooklyn. Within hours, though, all visa holder were being detained upon arrival at U.S. airports. At JFK, 44 travelers were stopped, including Hameed Khalid Darweesh, an Iraqi who worked as a translator for the U.S. military. Budnitz arrived at JFK 6 a.m. Monday to volunteer with Internation

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