The State Department says previously banned travelers will be allowed to enter the United States after a federal judge in Washington state on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of President Trump’s controversial immigration ban. “We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas under” Trump’s executive order, a State Department spokesperson said Saturday. “This ruling is another stinging rejection of President Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. The judge’s order does not mean the U.S. has no say on who can enter it, only that the new restrictions in Trump’s executive order cannot be implemented. The figure, though, was immediately disputed by the State Department, which said the number of visas revoked was roughly 60,000.

Source: Washington Post February 04, 2017 15:33 UTC