Government reveals over 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban
By Rachel Weiner and Justin Jouvenal February 3 at 12:40 PM
Over 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Trump’s
ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, an attorney
for the government revealed in Alexandria federal court Friday.
The
number came out during a hearing in a lawsuit filed by attorneys for
two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport last
Saturday. They were coerced into giving up their legal resident visas,
they argue, and quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia….
The government attorney, Erez Reuveni from the Justice Department’s
Office of Immigration Litigation, could not say how many people with
visas were sent back to their home countries from Dulles in response to
the travel ban. However, he did say that all people with green cards who
came through the airport have been let into the United States. …
Government reveals over 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban
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