Airlines rushed to disseminate guidelines on how Trump’s order would affect travel, even as officials in the United States were still puzzling over how exactly to interpret the order’s language. The order also indefinitely bars Syrian refugees from resettlement in the United States and suspends entry of all refugees from any country for 120 days. Ali, the Iraqi citizen, said that two Syrians were also stopped from boarding the same flight to Texas. In Egypt, security officials stopped five Iraqi citizens and a Yemeni national from boarding a flight from Cairo to the United States, because their visas “had a problem,” an Egyptian security official said. The data and reports so far “suggest there is confusion among border agents about how to treat” the various categories of visa holders, Rahmandad said, adding that his parents are green-card holders, but are currently in Iran.

Source: National Post January 28, 2017 21:09 UTC