A 39-year-old Sudanese student with a legal US residency said she was briefly handcuffed at a New York airport, following President Donald Trump's order restricting entry into the country for people from seven Muslim-majority nations. Nisrin Elamin, 39, a Stanford PhD student in anthropology who has lived in the United States since 1993, said she landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday night and was detained for about five hours. After presenting her U.S. green card, a designation of legal permanent residence, at JFK, she said she was questioned, patted down and handcuffed. Elamin said the handcuffs were soon removed and it appeared authorities were using them to escort people between areas of the airport. The executive order also upended the plans of some people planning to leave the United States.

Source: India Today January 29, 2017 10:34 UTC