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President Donald Trump: "It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over.” | Getty Judge blocks deportations as Trump order sparks global outrage White House faces legal challenges over executive order after travelers with visas to enter the U.S. were detained. 
  
 NEW YORK — A judge has blocked the federal government from deporting citizens of seven countries who were detained at U.S. airports over the past day or so as a result of an executive order President Donald Trump issued Friday. 
  
 Advocates said 100 to 200 travelers from those Muslim-majority countries were being held at various airports around the U.S. as a result of Trump’s order, which was billed as an anti-terrorism measure. The detentions sparked protests outside many international airports, including John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and Dulles Airport outside Washington. 
  
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 U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly issued her injunction over the government’s objection during an emergency hearing Saturday night as several hundred people opposed to Trump's order chanted and milled about outside the Brooklyn, N.Y., federal courthouse. 
  
 During the brief court session, the judge said it was difficult to see the harm in allowing the newly arrived immigrants to stay since they were being routinely admitted just a couple of days ago. 
  
 "If they had come in two days ago, we wouldn't be here, am I right? ... These are all people who have been through a vetting process," the judge said. 
  
 "Explain to me how these petitioners won't suffer irreparable damage if I don't grant this stay?" Donnelly asked. 
  
 Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Riley complained that the court proceeding was unduly rushed. "This has unfolded with such speed, we haven't had an opportunity to address any of the important legal issues," Riley said. 
  
 However, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Lee Gelernt said the immigrants affected were essentially the victims of bad timing that caused them to be caught in limbo just as Trump's order was being issued. 
  
 "These people were caught in transit," Gelernt said. "The government is putting someone back on a plane to Syria now." 
  
 Donnelly, an appointee of President Barack Obama, said she was freezing the status quo by blocking the deportations. 
  
 "The whole point of this hearing is to preserve the status quo. I don't think it's unduly burdensome to identify people we are talking about here," the judge declared. "Nobody is to be removed in this class." 
  
 The White House had no immediate comment on the legal setback for one of the new president's signature policy moves. Justice Department spokespeople did not immediately indicate whether an appeal was planned. 
  
 Donnelly's order does not appear to interfere with most of Trump's directive, since the judge only moved to protect a limited number of individuals who were already on or were about to board flights to the U.S. when Trump signed his measure. Now, such travelers will likely be blocked from boarding flights in the first place. 
  
 Several other judges also stepped into the legal fray over the implementation of Trump’s executive order Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning. A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., issued an order barring the deportation of all green card holders being detained at Dulles Airport In Virginia for seven days. Judge Leonie Brinkema’s order also required that Customs and Border Protection grant lawyers access to those individuals. 
  
 "Department of Homeland Security officials are refusing to allow lawyers to talk with the detained people, who are legal permanent residents, even though the judge’s order requires the government to permit lawyer access,” one of the attorneys involved, Andrew Pincus, said later Saturday night. 
  
 Also, a federal judge in Seattle blocked the deportation of two immigrants from the airport there until a hearing set for Friday. 
  
 Early Sunday morning, two federal judges in Massachusetts issued an edict that seemed to further undermine Trump’s order. The restraining order from U.S. District Court Judge Susan Burroughs and Magistrate Judge Judith Dein appeared to be the first one to require the actual release of people being detained under Trump’s order. 
  
  
  
 Burroughs and Dein ruled that for the next seven days immigration officials “shall not by any manner or means detain or remove individuals” with valid visas, or green cards, or refugees who would be permitted to enter the U.S. in the absence of Trump’s order. 
  
 The Massachusetts federal judges’ order appeared to apply nationwide, although a portion of it focused on instructions for airlines serving Boston’s Logan Airport. The judges instructed Customs and Border Protection to advise those airlines that “individuals on these flights will not be detained or returned based solely on the Executive Order.” 
  
  
  
 The early-morning judicial order came shortly after the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement indicating plans to release all green-card holders who had arrived in the United States on Friday or Saturday who were detained under the Trump order. However, the Massachusetts judges’ order included categories beyond green-card holders. It was not immediately clear whether the Massachusetts federal judges’ order effectively guaranteed the rights of green-card holders to board flights headed for the U.S. or even for Boston. 
  
 If that order doesn't free all the immigrants being detained as a result of Trump’s executive action, the legal battle will likely move to a series of individual cases filed in New York, Chicago and elsewhere Saturday, where immigrants will be seeking to be released from detention to travel or settle in the U.S. 
  
 Donnelly acted on a petition filed early Saturday in the Eastern District of New York, seeking to release Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi from detention at JFK Airport. The case was filed by the ACLU, the International Refugee Assistance Project the National Immigration Law Center and a Yale Law School legal clinic. 
  
 Darweesh was released early Saturday afternoon, according to aides to New York Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Nydia Velazquez, who went to JFK to try and free the men. Alshawi was released Saturday night, said a Nadler spokesman who indicated earlier that at least 10 others had been detained at the airport. 
  
 “This should not happen in America," the two lawmakers said in a statement earlier Saturday. "We shouldn’t have to demand the release of refugees one by one. We must fight this executive order in the streets, in the courts, anywhere, anytime. We must resist. We must fight. We must keep working to keep America the land of the free and the home of the brave.” 
  
 Pandemonium over Trump's new executive order erupted at airports nationwide on Saturday, with reports of dozens of immigrants and travelers stranded or turned back in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York and Dallas as demonstrators flooded airports to denounce Trump's directive. One Syrian Christian family who had been working with Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) were detained at Philadelphia International Airport and then subsequently forced to leave, according to the congressman. 
  
 During a press conference at Dulles International Airport, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said one family had been detained as he slammed Trump's order as one that will "breed hatred toward Americans around the globe." Fifty people were being held at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, according to local reports. 
  
 Protesters rally at a demonstration against the new ban on immigration issued by President Donald Trump at Logan International Airport in Boston on Jan. 28. | Getty 
  
 But at the White House, Trump said his order was being carried out just as he planned. 
  
 “It’s not a Muslim ban, but we were totally prepared," Trump said. "It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over.” 
  
 Customs and Border Protection agents who detained the men at JFK pointed to Trump’s executive order, telling the immigrants’ attorneys: “Mr. President. Call Mr. Trump,” according to the 20-page lawsuit. 
  
 Darweesh, now 53, worked on behalf of the U.S. military in Iraq for a decade as an interpreter and electrical engineer, earning him a so-called “special immigrant visa” that are allotted to Iraqi nationals who aided the U.S. government during the Iraq War and now face threats staying there. Darweesh applied for the visa in Oct. 1, 2014, which was issued on Jan. 20, the same day Trump was inaugurated. 
  
 And Alshawi, 33, was granted a visa Jan. 11 to join his wife and son, who have already been resettled as refugees in Houston. 
  
 The lawsuit argues that the detention of two men is “part of a widespread pattern applied to many refugees and arriving aliens detained after the issuance of” Trump’s executive order on Friday. 
  
 On a call with reporters Saturday, Abed Ayoub, legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said CBP officials had told advocates dozens of people were being held at JFK as a result of the executive order. 
  
 He also cited reports of people being held at airports in Atlanta, Detroit, Houston and Washington, D.C. 
  
 “We’re already hearing about hundreds of people being detained at airports,” said Marielena Hincapie, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center. “It got issued late on a Friday afternoon, it was not released to the public for several hours and then here on a Friday night over the weekend, we’re dealing with hundreds of people who have been arriving with no guidance to Border Patrol personnel.” 
  
 Trump’s far-reaching executive order does allow for some exemptions at the discretion of administration officials, including “when the person is already in transit and denying admission would cause undue hardship.” But advocates such as Hincapie say the messy rollout of Trump’s controversial directive is triggering confusion and chaos at airports nationwide, since border patrol officers have received little guidance on how to implement the order. 
  
 “They failed to inform airports about what to do,” Hincapie said. 
  
 Darweesh’s wife and three children were also granted visas and traveled with him, but were not detained. They are supposed to resettle in Charlotte, N.C. And neither men had been allowed to contact their lawyers, the lawsuit says. 
  
 Iraq is one of seven countries whose citizens, under Trump’s executive order released late Friday, are barred from entering the United States for 90 days, along with Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. 
  
 Ted Hesson contributed to this report. ||||| President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
  
 President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
  
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S. President Donald Trump and his ban on refugees from Muslim-majority countries (all times local): 
  
 3 a.m. 
  
 The Homeland Security Department says a New York court order temporarily barring the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump's travel ban will not affect the overall implementation of the White House executive action. 
  
 The agency said the court order affected a relatively small number of travelers who were inconvenienced by security procedures upon their return. 
  
 The department's statement said: "President Trump's Executive Orders remain in place— prohibited travel will remain prohibited, and the U.S. government retains its right to revoke visas at any time if required for national security or public safety," according to the DHS statement. 
  
 Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the White House, said that nothing in the judge's order "in anyway impedes or prevents the implementation of the president's executive order which remains in full, complete and total effect." 
  
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 11 p.m. 
  
 Foreign-born U.S. residents who could have been barred from re-entering the United States under President Donald Trump's immigration order have been allowed back into the country. 
  
 That's according to a Department of Homeland Security official who briefed reporters on Saturday night. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to publicly discuss details of the matter. 
  
 Trump's order Friday barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States for 90 days. That meant that even those with permanent residency "green cards" or other visas risked not being let back in to the United States. 
  
 However, the official said all green card holders from the seven countries who sought to enter the U.S. Saturday were granted special permission. 
  
 It's not clear if other green card holders will be admitted. The official said cases are being reviewed individually. 
  
 — Alicia Caldwell 
  
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 9:40 p.m. 
  
 A federal judge in New York has issued an emergency order temporarily barring the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump's travel ban. 
  
 U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly issued the order Saturday evening after lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a court petition on behalf of people from seven predominantly Muslim nations who were detained at airports across the country as the ban took effect. 
  
 Cheers broke out in a crowd of demonstrators outside a Brooklyn courthouse as the decision, effective nationwide, was announced. 
  
 The order barred U.S. border agents from removing anyone who arrived in the U.S. with a valid visa from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. 
  
 It also covered anyone with an approved refugee application. 
  
 It was unclear how quickly the order might affect people in detention. 
  
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 7 p.m. 
  
 New York City's Kennedy Airport became a scene of anguish Saturday for relatives of people detained after arriving in the U.S. from nations subject to President Donald Trump's travel ban. 
  
 Lawyers and advocates working at the airport say they didn't have a hard count on the number of people taken into custody after getting off their flights. 
  
 Yosre Ghaled was among about a dozen distraught people waiting at a terminal Saturday to see if loved ones would be released or deported. 
  
 She says her mother-in-law's sister had been detained. 
  
 The 67-year-old Yemeni citizen had flown to the U.S. to live with family because she is sick from heart problems and diabetes. 
  
 Two members of congress joined hundreds of protesters at the airport, demonstrating against the detentions. 
  
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 1 a.m. 
  
 The government of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is taking exception to the Israeli prime minister's praise of a border wall to keep out illegal immigration. 
  
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Twitter Saturday that "President Trump is right" for building a wall. 
  
 "I built a wall along Israel's southern border," he wrote. "It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea." 
  
 Mexico's Foreign Ministry said in a communique that it had expressed its "profound surprise, rejection and disappointment in the prime minister's message on Twitter" to Israel's ambassador. "Mexico is Israel's friend and should be treated as such." 
  
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 12:20 a.m. 
  
 President Donald Trump says his crackdown on refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries "is not a Muslim ban." 
  
 A day after signing an executive order implementing the ban immediately, Trump says it's "working out very nicely." 
  
 But confusion, worry and outrage boiled over Saturday as airlines blocked people from traveling to the United States and legal challenges were mounted. 
  
 Included is a 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. The U.S. refugee program is suspended for 120-days. 
  
 Trump's order imposed the most aggressive ban on Syrians, indefinitely blocking entry to the U.S. by anyone from that country, including those fleeing civil war. 
  
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 12:10 a.m. 
  
 Airlines around the world are turning away passengers, refunding tickets and rebooking flights in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's immigration order. 
  
 The order signed Friday included a 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. It also suspended the U.S. refugee program for four months. 
  
 That forced airlines to tell some customers they couldn't proceed on flights to the U.S. 
  
 Dubai-based Emirates said a small number of its passengers were affected Saturday, and it was helping them rebook. Delta Air Lines and British Airways both said they were offering refunds for passengers who couldn't complete their trips. 
  
 Several airlines, including Qatar Airways, posted travel alerts on their websites warning customers about the changes. 
  
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 11:50 p.m. 
  
 In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his country's decision to not issue give Americans visas will not be retroactive. 
  
 Zarif says on Twitter: "Unlike the U.S., our decision is not retroactive. All with valid Iranian visa will be gladly welcomed." 
  
 U.S. visa restrictions that took effect on Saturday for people from several countries, including Iran, ban travel even for those who already had American visas. 
  
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 11:20 p.m. 
  
 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you. 
  
 Trudeau tweeted Saturday "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada ." 
  
 Trudeau also tweeted a picture of him greeting a Syrian child at Toronto's airport. 
  
 Trudeau oversaw the arrival of more than 39,000 Syrian refugees soon after he was elected in late 2015. 
  
 The young prime minister has been reluctant to criticize President Donald Trump. His government has been trying to balance his liberal view of the world while not offending the new Trump administration. 
  
 More than 75 percent of Canada's exports are to the U.S. 
  
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 10:20 p.m. 
  
 An Iraqi who was detained overnight at a New York City airport because of President Donald Trump's ban on refugees from certain Muslim nations has called America "the land of freedom" after being released from custody. 
  
 Hameed Khalid Darweesh worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army when it invaded Iraq in 2003. Later he was a contract engineer for the U.S. 
  
 He was granted permission to relocate to the U.S., but was detained along with another traveler from Iraq after arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport Friday night. 
  
 Lawyers petitioned a federal court early Saturday to let them go. Two Democratic U.S. Representatives, Nydia Velazquez and Jerrold Nalder, were at the airport trying to get 11 other detainees released. 
  
 After he was freed Saturday, Darweesh told a waiting crowd that "America is the greatest nation, the greatest people in the world." 
  
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 9:50 p.m. 
  
 In Somalia, people are reacting with dismay and warnings that countries could retaliate against the United States' new immigration and visa policies with restrictive policies of their own. 
  
 "I am shocked beyond words. This will mean that my new husband will never be able to join me in the U.S.," said Fatima Ashkir, a Somali-American woman from Florida who came to Mogadishu to marry her Somali boyfriend. 
  
 Others say they are not surprised at President Donald Trump's executive order imposing a three-month ban on refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Somalia. 
  
 "His intentions of hurting rather than to help were clear from the very beginning," said Ahmed Abdullahi, a university student in Mogadishu. "But you have to know that this will have a serious effect on relations between Americans and the Muslim world. A tit-for-tat response by Muslim countries, in which Americans could be barred from entering countries affected, is likely to be seen." 
  
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 8:30 p.m. 
  
 Iran's foreign ministry is suggesting the country will limit issuing visas to American tourists in retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump's suspension of immigration and visas for nationals from Muslim countries including Iran. 
  
 The official IRNA news agency Saturday carried a statement by the Iranian foreign ministry that says Iran will resort to "counteraction" to Trump's executive order. 
  
 The statement says: "Iran, to defend the dignity of the great Iranian nation, will implement the principle of reciprocity until the removal of the insulting restriction against Iranian nationals." 
  
 The statement adds: "It will apply corresponding legal, consular and political actions." 
  
 The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since 1979 when militants stormed the U.S. embassy. 
  
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 8 p.m. 
  
 Cairo airport officials say five U.S.-bound Iraqi migrants from one family who have been prevented from boarding an EgyptAir flight to New York's John F. Kennedy airport would return to Iraq. 
  
 They said the five will spend Saturday night at Cairo airport and leave for Irbil, capital of Iraq's Kurdish region, Sunday morning. 
  
 They added that the sixth U.S.-bound migrant, a Yemeni national, left the airport to return to Cairo, where he resides. 
  
 The officials said Saturday's action by the airport was the first since President Donald Trump imposed a three-month ban on refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. 
  
 The officials said the six migrants, escorted by officials from the U.N. refugee agency, were stopped from boarding the plane after authorities at Cairo airport contacted their counterparts in JFK airport. 
  
 The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. 
  
 (This story corrects the number of U.S.-bound Iraqi migrants to five, not six) 
  
 — Hamza Hendawi. 
  
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 7:05 p.m. 
  
 Dutch airline KLM says it has had to turn away seven would-be passengers because they would no longer have been accepted into the United States under President Donald Trump's ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. 
  
 Manel Vrijenhoek, at KLM's press office, said: "We would love to bring them there. That's not the problem. It's just that this is what the U.S. sprang on the rest of the world — that these people are no longer welcome." 
  
 She said the seven were due to fly with KLM from different airports around the world. Vrijenhoek said she had no specifics on their nationalities, although she confirmed they were from countries affected by the three-month immigration ban: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. 
  
 Trump signed the order Friday. 
  
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 6:40 p.m. 
  
 A U.S. federal law enforcement official says any non-U.S. citizen from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen is now barred from entering the United States. 
  
 That covers legal permanent residents — green card holders — and visa-holders from those seven countries who are out of the United States after Friday, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the temporary ban. They cannot return to the U.S. for 90 days. 
  
 The official says there's an exemption for immigrants and legal permanent residents whose entry is in the U.S. national interest, but it's unclear how that exemption will be applied. 
  
 The official says visa and green card holders already in the U.S. will be allowed to stay. 
  
 The official wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the details of how Trump's order is being put in place and spoke only on condition of anonymity. 
  
 Customs and Border Protection is notifying airlines about passengers whose visas had been canceled or legal residents scheduled to fly back to the U.S., and the airlines are being told to keep them off those flights. 
  
 — Alicia Caldwell 
  
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 6:35 p.m. 
  
 Israel's leader has endorsed President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border. 
  
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted Saturday that Israel's wall along its border with Egypt has been successful in stopping a swell of African migrants. 
  
 "President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea," he wrote, with images of the Israeli and American flag. 
  
 The tweet marked a rare public foray for the Israeli leader into a charged American domestic affair. The two leaders spoke earlier this week and Netanyahu is planning to visit Trump in the White House next month. 
  
 After repeated clashes with President Obama, Netanyahu has high expectations for Trump, who has signaled he will take a kinder approach. 
  
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 5:45 p.m. 
  
 Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012 to stop her campaigning for girls' education and co-winner of the 2014 Nobel peace prize, says she is heart-broken by U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on refugees from entering the United States for four months. 
  
 The order Friday suspends a program that saw around 85,000 people displaced by war, political oppression, hunger and religious prejudice resettled in the U.S. last year. Trump indefinitely blocked people fleeing Syria's civil war, and imposed a 90-day ban on U.S. entry from seven Muslim majority nations. 
  
 In a statement Saturday, Yousafzai implores Trump "not to turn his back on the world's most defenseless children and families." 
  
 Refugees and immigrants, she says, have "helped build your country." 
  
 Trump's mother was born in Scotland. 
  
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 5:15 p.m. 
  
 Qatar Airways is advising passengers bound for the United States from seven newly banned majority Muslim countries that they need to have either a U.S. green card or diplomatic visa to travel. 
  
 A statement on the company's website says: "Nationals of the following countries: Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen ... may travel to the U.S. only if they are in possession of a permanent resident card (Green card) or any of the below visas." 
  
 It listed foreign government, United Nations, international organization and NATO visas. 
  
 President Donald Trump has issued a 90-day ban on all entry to the U.S. from countries with terrorism concerns, including Syria, Iraq and Libya. 
  
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 3 p.m. 
  
 Cairo airport officials say seven U.S.-bound migrants — six from Iraq and one from Yemen — have been prevented from boarding an EgyptAir flight to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. 
  
 The officials said the action Saturday by the airport was the first since President Donald Trump imposed a three-month ban on refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. 
  
 The officials said the seven migrants, escorted by officials from the U.N. refugee agency, were stopped from boarding the plane after authorities at Cairo airport contacted their counterparts at the Kennedy airport. 
  
 The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. 
  
 — Hamza Hendawi. 
  
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 2:45 p.m. 
  
 The head of a leading refugee aid agency says President Donald Trump's decision to ban Syrian refugees hurts innocents fleeing violence. 
  
 Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council tells The Associated Press on Saturday that Trump's decision "will not make America safer, it will make America smaller and meaner." 
  
 Trump on Friday suspended refugee admissions for four months and indefinitely banned those from war-torn Syria, pending program changes that are to ensure refugees won't harm national security. 
  
 Egeland says the decision dealt a "mortal blow" to the idea of international responsibility for those fleeing persecution. He says the U.S. is leading a "race to the bottom" in which politicians in wealth countries provide "zero moral leadership." 
  
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 1 p.m. 
  
 Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the time has come for removing walls between nations rather that building new ones. 
  
 Rouhani did not name any particular country but his remarks come shortly after President Donald Trump's executive order Friday suspending all immigration and visa processes for nationals from a handful of countries with terrorism concerns, including Iran, for 90 days. 
  
 Rouhani said Saturday that, "It is not the day for creating distance among nations." 
  
 Speaking at a tourism conference broadcast on state TV, Rouhani said that those seeking to create such walls, "have forgotten that the Berlin Wall collapsed years ago." 
  
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 12:30 p.m. 
  
 The International Rescue Committee is calling President Donald Trump's suspension of the U.S. refugee resettlement program a "harmful and hasty" decision. 
  
 In a statement issued late Friday night after the suspension was announced, IRC President David Miliband said, "America must remain true to its core values. America must remain a beacon of hope." 
  
 The IRC statement declared that the U.S. vetting process for prospective refugees is already robust — involving biometric screening and up to 36 months of vetting by "12 to 15 government agencies." 
  
 Miliband praised The United States' record as a resettlement destination and said, "This is no time for America to turn its back on people ready to become patriotic Americans." |||||Summary:
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– With chaos reigning and scores of travelers being held in the nation's airports in the wake of President Trump's executive order banning travelers from seven countries, a federal judge issued an injunction barring the government from deporting anyone, reports Politico. During an emergency hearing Saturday night in Brooklyn, US District Court Judge Ann Donnelly appeared to focus on the timing, and Politico notes that the scope of her ruling is limited, applying to people who were already in transit when the executive order was made. "If they had come in two days ago, we wouldn't be here, am I right? ... These are all people who have been through a vetting process," she said. A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., also moved to block the deportation of green card holders being held at Dulles airport, as well as force the government to provide them with lawyers, while another judge in Seattle blocked the deportation of two immigrants being held until a hearing could take place. The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, said that green card holders from the affected nations were granted special exemption Saturday and allowed to enter the country, reports the AP. For his part, Trump had this to say: "It’s not a Muslim ban, but we were totally prepared. It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over."