Two Iraqi refugees are being detained there after they were refused entry following President Trump’s executive order halting refu­gee admissions to the United States. (Trevor Collens/AFP/Getty Images)Refugees who were en route to the United States on Friday evening have been detained at U.S. airports and restricted from the country as a result of President Trump’s executive order banning their entry. Lawyers for two Iraqi refugees detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport filed a middle-of-the-night lawsuit in federal court challenging Trump’s executive order as unconstitutional and seeking the release of their clients. Immigration advocates say at least one refu­gee family is detained at San Francisco International Airport, but it is not clear how many refugees are currently detained at airports nationwide. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)The executive order drew immediate condemnation from advocates for refugees and from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which announced plans to file a lawsuit next week challenging Trump’s order as unconstitutional.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2017 15:05 UTC