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ACLU National on Twitter

Lee Gelernt:  “The judge, in a nutshell, saw through what the government was doing and gave us what we wanted, which was to block the Trump order and not allow the government to remove anybody who has come and is caught up in the order, nationwide.  They cannot remove anybody.  Plus, she said they need to give us a list of the names who are being detained, because as you all know, we have not been ale to track everyone down despite diligent efforts.  The government must now give us a name.  We’re going to go see each of the people, provide counsel, try to get them out of detention, right now.  But at minimum, they will not be returned back to danger.  The court has set further briefing and will hear this case some time in February, but the key tonight was making sure that no one was put back on a plane and some people were threatened to be put back on a plane as of 9:30 tonight.  Hopefully that will be blocked.  She told the government to get the word out to their people at airports, “Don’t put people on planes.” So, if you hear of that, you need to let us know immediately, because it would be in defiance of a court order.”

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Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban

1/28/17 at about 8:45 EST:  Per Dale Hoe, Director, ACLU Voting Rights Project

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updated to add:  from The New Civi Rights Movement

A federal judge in New York on Saturday evening issued a nationwide order blocking the deportation of people detained in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s immigration and refugee ban.

U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly, an Obama nominee who took the bench in 2015, issued the ruling in response to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center and other groups on behalf of two Iraqi men detained at JFK Airport earlier Saturday.

Both men had U.S. Visas and were in the air when Trump signed the order Friday, which blocked people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country for 90 days. The order also halted the U.S. refugee program for 120 days, and indefinitely suspended the intake of refugees from Syria.

Initial reports on Twitter indicated that the judge’s order applies only to those who were either in transit or had already been detained. That means it won’t necessarily prevent the Trump administration from implementing the ban going forward.

So, it looks like it only includes those who are currently detained or are in the process of traveling to the US.

Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban

theweekmagazine:

Scientists are planning their own march on Washington

The Scientists’ March on Washington is still in its early stages of development, but it already has its own logo, website, Twitter account, and a rapidly growing Facebook group, where more than 140,000 people have already joined.

The march is for “anyone who uses and values these tools for understanding the world, not just professional scientists.”