{"id":432252,"date":"2017-01-28T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=432252"},"modified":"2017-01-28T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T18:24:56","slug":"first-lawsuit-filed-to-challenge-trumps-refugee-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/de\/2017\/01\/first-lawsuit-filed-to-challenge-trumps-refugee-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"First lawsuit filed to challenge Trump\u2019s refugee policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ Civil liberties groups filed the first lawsuit Saturday morning challenging President Trump \u2019s pause on migration from countries troubled by terrorism, saying the halt has already snared two Iraqis who\u2019d already been approved to come to the U. S., and who fear for their lives back home.
The lawsuit says that when lawyers for one of the men demanded to speak to the person responsible for keeping them out, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers told them they would have to take it up with new chief: \u201cCall Mr. Trump.\u201d
One of the two men refused entry is an interpreter and engineer who was to be admitted under a program rewarding those who helped the U. S. efforts in Iraq, at risk to themselves. The man\u2019s family was admitted, but he was detained.
The other man was coming to the U. S. to rejoin his wife and seven-year-old son, who were admitted as refugees three years ago.
Both men were denied entry at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in the hours after Mr. Trump issued his executive order Friday.
The lawsuit said the Trump order is unconstitutional because it discriminates based on someone\u2019s country of birth, and \u201cwas substantially motivated by animus\u201d toward Muslims.
\u201cPresident Trump \u2019s war on equality is already taking a terrible human toll. This ban cannot be allowed to continue,\u201d said Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s Immigrants\u2019 Rights Project.
Mr. Trump \u2019s new policy pauses the refugee program and halts admissions from countries troubled by terrorism, including Syria and Iraq.
The pause is intended to give the new administration a chance to improve screening, Mr. Trump said in the executive order.
The order makes good on his campaign pledge to impose \u201cextreme vetting\u201d of those coming to the U. S.
Human rights groups have called it a \u201cMuslim ban,\u201d saying they believe that\u2019s what Mr. Trump was really trying to achieve with his policy.
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