Posted on 02/03/2017 1:25:03 PM PST by Uncle Sam 911
At least 100,000 visas have been revoked in a single week in response to President Trump's executive immigration order, a lawyer for the Justice Department revealed in court Friday.
The number came to light in a Virginia courtroom as a federal judge granted the state's motion to join a lawsuit challenging the immigration ban that caused chaos at airports over the weekend.
"The number 100,000 really sucked the air out of my lungs," said Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg of the Legal Aid Justice Center, who represents two brothers from Yemen who were detained after arriving at Dulles Airport on Saturday and filed the original lawsuit that Virginia just joined.
Attorney Erez Reuveni, from the DOJ's Office of Immigration Litigation, announced the staggering number after Judge Leonie Brinkema pressed for the number of people who were detained and sent back from airports
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Just goes to show....the sue-happy Yemenis NEVER intended to become Americans, and to respect us, and our laws.
These people do not meet the criteria our president has set for admittance into our country.
They have no legal standing here.
Send them back to their accursed Muslim homelands.
If there were actually 100,000 people from these Terror hot spots trying to get into the United States then Trump’s order was clearly necessary. There’s no way we could properly vet that many potential jihadists.
that’s a start.
They probably just make this stuff up.
60,000 Visas Revoked Not 100,000 Says State Department Since Immigration Ban
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