An Iranian citizen with a U.S. student visa, who was denied entry at Los Angeles International Airport last month under President Donald Trump’s travel ban, will return to the airport Sunday afternoon, the American Civil Liberties Union announced.
Sara Yarjani, a graduate student at the California Institute for Human Science in Encinitas, is returning two days after a federal judge in Seattle issued an immediate and temporary halt nationwide against the immigration order involving nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iran.
“She was removed nearly two hours after a federal court in New York ordered that the government halt all removals immediately,” the ACLU said in a statement. “CBP officers removed Yarjani in violation of the court order, despite the fact that Yarjani pled that it was now against the law to put her on the plane.”
Yarjani was detained more than 22 hours by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and then forced to leave the U.S. after arriving at LAX from Vienna, Austria on Jan. 27, according to the ACLU.
Yarjani is due to arrive at 12:45 p.m. Sunday at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.
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