So what is to prevent visa holders in the banned countries from boarding a flight tomorrow? Once here, the ruling applies to them too. Not a lawyer, but I read nothing in the stay limiting it to travelers already here.
Going forward, the airlines are not allowed by law to let ineligible aliens board flights to the USA. But I just saw on Twitter some UK based airline employees (they claim) saying they are going to defy the US govt and fly them anyway. Hope that we can put a stop to that fast, bc otherwise there will be a growing mass of ppl arriving and kept in custody tomorrow etc. Hope that does not happen! No one should be boarding flights to USA if they are subject to the EO.
I have read that people who fall under this order have not been permitted to board transit to the U.S. since the order took effect Friday around 4:45 PM EST.
The problems arise from people who were already in transit at the time of the order.
Once this initial batch of people who were in transit have been processed, the issues on our soil should subside.
There will still be the issue of dealing with the non-citizens who may reside temporarily in the U.S., but at this time are overseas. My understanding is that those people will be processed on a case by case basis.
Also sounds like non-citizens from those countries who are here legally now will not be able to freely travel back and forth. Once they leave, they will have to be approved for re-entry after extreme vetting.
No more of this crap where Mohammed, the college student, goes back home to “visit his mother and father” and while he’s there he takes part in terrorist training and methods.