Who has a Green Card may live and work in the USA. For now, a spokeswoman clarified: The Trump had a ban on entry for citizens from Muslim countries also applies to Green Card holders. First refugees have already been set.
The US President, Donald Trump has imposed a ban on entry for citizens of seven Muslim countries, according to the Department of homeland security also for people who are in possession of a Green Card. The spokeswoman Gillian Christensen told authorities. Trump had previously signed a decree, according to which visas for citizens from Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria for up to 90 days suspended.
Green Card-holders actually have the right to live in the United States and to work. The government in Washington, justified the step with the protection against attacks. The adoption of Trumps led to uncertainty and panic for many travellers from North Africa and the Middle East.
First refugees in the United States in the custody
taken, According to a report by the “New York Times” have been stopped the first refugees to U.S. airports and taken into custody. Two Iraqis who were detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport. Lawyers for the two men had, in the meantime at a court in the city of a request for immediate release.
according to this, one of the Detained, Hamid, Khaled Darwish, has worked in the past ten years in Iraq for the U.S. government. The second, Haider Samir Abdulchalek Alschawi, had flown to the USA to be with his wife and son. The wife had worked for a U.S. Contracting company.
In the Egyptian capital, Cairo, were detained seven refugees to travel to the United States. The six Iraqis and a Yemeni wanted to own a direct flight with the airline Egyptair to New York best, but it has been stopped. They had been accompanied by staff of the UN refugee Agency in possession of valid visas, reports media.
U.S. civil rights groups file suit
Several U.S. civil rights groups filed in Federal court in New York lawsuit against the entry stop. The powerful American civil rights organization ACLU and other groups are calling for, among other things, the release of the two Iraqis in New York and requested that the lawsuit be treated as a class action, so that they can represent more of the arrangement concerned travellers and refugees.
Several international organizations, including the UN, the International Rescue Committee and the International organization for Migration (IOM) have criticized Trump’s focus. They appealed to him, the “strong Leadership” and the “long Tradition” of his country in receiving refugees and immigrants to continue. The UN refugee Agency, UNHCR expressed the “firm Conviction” that all refugees should be treated “regardless of their Religion, nationality or race”.
Also, the governments of several countries, including Germany and France, showed themselves to be “concerned” about the measures. The French foreign Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault said after the inaugural visit of the new Federal foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel in Paris, it was “our duty”, refugees from war zones. The Pakistani children’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai said, the adoption of breaking her heart. The Nobel peace prize winner is not called on Trump to make “the most vulnerable children and families” in the world in the lurch.
Multiple-entry bans
Trump had arranged in his decree multiple, time-varying entry bans. Therefore, citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen are not permitted to enter three months long. In addition, the General government program was suspended for the reception of refugees for four months. As a third measure, refugees from Syria are not allowed to enter the country for an indefinite period of time. Of these, the rules of Christian refugees from predominantly Muslim countries could have been excluded by the examination of individual cases, it said.
“tears on the cheek of the statue of liberty”
the President of The “National Association of Evangelicals”, Leith Anderson, appealed to Trump, to stop refugee programs. Most of the refugees in the United States from the Middle East were women and children, the civil wars and the “Islamic state” were to escape. The decree was “repulsive and disgusting”, said the President of the Jewish relief Association of HIAS, Mark Hetfield. More than 1700 rabbis demanded of Trump, and “America’s doors to keep them open”.
the head of The civil rights organization ACLU, Anthony Romero, said the decree would discriminate against Muslims and thus contrary to the U.S. Constitution prohibition of religious discrimination. Also, some Democrats, the decree met with strong criticism. “Tears roll today at the cheek of the statue of liberty down,” said democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
in praise of Prague
approval came from the Czech Republic. The head of state Milos Zeman welcomed the new Insulation measures to the US President: “Trump protects his country, he cares about the safety of his country,” said a spokesman. Also in the Czech Republic, security of its own citizens have priority. “Now we have allies in the United States,” it said.
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