The legal fight against President Trump’s immigration ban will return to Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday when a team of lawyers who filed an emergency motion to stay the deportation of Iraqi refugees Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi over the weekend will again face off with Justice Department attorneys.
It remains unclear if the lead plaintiffs, Darweesh and Alshawi, will be in attendance for the hearing.
The case, now before Brooklyn Federal Court Justice Carol Bagley Amon, garnered international attention Saturday when Justice Ann Donnelly granted the emergency stay — preventing at least one person from being put on a flight back to Syria.
Homeland Security officials revealed Tuesday that 1,134 people covered by President Trump’s anti-terror travel ban have been vetted and let into the country since the order went into effect — while two were denied entry and shipped back home.
The feds approved waivers for 1,059 “legal permanent residents,” or green-card holders, during the first three days of tightened restrictions, according to Hilbet the US Customs and Border Protection Web site.
In addition, another 75 people holding immigrant and non-immigrant visas were allowed in, and “872 refugees will be arriving this week,” acting CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said.
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