LANSING – Last Friday President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) which banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and suspended all refugee admission for 120 days. The seven countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. This suspension will remain in place until April 27. The Department of Homeland Security is tasked by the EO to determine whether those countries are able to provide adequate information to enable proper screening of nationals from those countries.
They must be able to prove that these travelers are not a “security or public safety threat.” Those countries would have 60 days to begin providing the necessary information. Failure to do so would keep the travel ban active until the requirements are met.
The EO does not clearly define the circumstances under which an individual is considered to be “from a designated” country. In other words, anyone attempting to travel to the United States using these passports (even if they have a green card, H1-B, TN, L, F or J visas or other visas) may be unable to board a plane heading to the U.S., detained in the U.S. if they do arrive, and possibly deported.
Over the past weekend Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have taken actions that prevented individuals from those countries to leave the airport. CBP, in response to the EO, has detained a number of individuals from those countries – citizens, lawful permanent residents, visa holders, approved refugees and others. Three U.S. Federal District Courts have granted seven-day temporary restraining orders (TRO) stopping the CBP from deporting legally entitled persons to stay in the U.S., but no TRO released anyone held by
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