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发帖数: 4736 | 1 Fear, anger at O’Hare: Travelers freed after being held over Trump order,
lawyers say!
The couple — jet-lagged from their 20-hour trip home from Iran — looked
tired and confused as they exited customs around 5:30 p.m. Noorian carried
the names of about a dozen people he said were still being held and phone
numbers for their relatives.
Noorian’s brother-in-law, Mohammad Amirisefat, said before Noorian’s
release: “This is insulting. This is insane, this is truly insane.” After
the release, Noorian’s wife said: “I can’t believe something like this
can happen to someone with a green card.”
Trump’s executive order, signed late Friday afternoon, suspends entry of
all refugees to the United States for 120 days, bars Syrian refugees
indefinitely and blocks entry for 90 days for citizens of seven
predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and
Yemen.
The Department of Homeland Security said the order also bars green card
holders from those countries from re-entering the United States. White House
officials said Saturday that green card holders from the seven affected
countries would need a case-by-case waiver to return to the United States.
Illinois Democrats express 'disbelief' at Trump immigration order. Hundreds
of people protested inside and outside O’Hare’s international terminal
Saturday night, chanting, “The whole world is watching.” As the crowds
swelled, police shut down vehicle access to the terminal.
“It’s horrifying,” protester Rachel Shinville, 24, said of the ban. “It
’s inhumane and I’m pretty sure it’s illegal. It takes a lot of people to
allow something like this to happen.”
About 150 lawyers summoned by the International Refugee Assistance Project
gathered near McDonald’s at O’Hare to represent those being held. The
lawyers paced through the arrivals terminal, making their presence known to
people waiting for travelers.
Heidi Walczak, 40, of Arlington Heights, bought coffee for the lawyers at O
’Hare. Another person bought pizzas. Cheers erupted. “We just wanted to
help out and come and show our support,” Walczak said. “I’m not a lawyer,
so I can’t do any of the legal stuff.”
Members of the lawyers group said 17 people were taken into custody, and
shortly after 10 p.m. they confirmed that all had been let go. None of them
held refugee status, said Hannah Garst, a Chicago lawyer.
Mohammad Amirisefat of Chicago waits for news about relatives at O'Hare
International Airport on Jan. 28, 2017. His sister, Zehra Amirisefat, 30, a
U.S. citizen, landed at O'Hare with her 6-month-old child after returning
from Iran before her husband, a green card holder, was detained.
Another Chicago area resident temporarily caught in the federal net was
Iranian Kasra Noohi, 70, of Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood.
His sons, Ayden, 37, and Bardia, 32, waited for hours at O’Hare for their
father, who they said had a U.S. green card. According to the sons, Noohi
was on his plane, traveling from the United Arab Emirates, when Trump signed
his order.
“Part of me is angry, part of me is scared,” Bardia Noohi said. “I feel
like this is just the beginning.”
Ayden Noohi said this incident made him think of when people of Japanese
descent were put into internment camps during World War II. “Is history
going to repeat itself?” he said. “Are we going to go down this path of
racism?”
After a long wait for their father to emerge, they found out that he had
been freed earlier, had not seen them in the confusing, protester-filled
crowd, and had simply taken a cab home to the South Loop.
“The protesters are great but if I can’t see my dad coming out then it’s
kind of missing the point," said Bardia Noohi.
As protesters marched through the arrivals gate, the Noohi brothers took
video of them.
Another person held, Abdulsalam Mused, 67, of Oak Lawn, was freed after more
than six hours of questioning, and he stopped to shake hands with the
volunteer attorneys and protesters. He said authorities repeatedly asked him
whether he was carrying weapons and whether he had visited his native Yemen
while on his trip to Saudi Arabia for his son’s wedding.
He said he was treated nicely, but the experience still left him shaken.
“I received political asylum in the United States because I stood up to
terrorists in Yemen,” said Mused, who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years.
“This is the first time in my life that I was made to feel like a terrorist
.”
Wearing a pinstripe suit and tie, Mused encouraged the president to rescind
his order. “This is not what America is about,” he said. “America is
about freedom of expression and freedom of religion. It’s a country of
immigrants. It’s not this.”
His son Nasser Mused, 36, also of Oak Lawn, said his father was looking
forward to seeking citizenship this May.
“He did everything right,” Nasser Mused said. “He feels safe here because
you have freedom of speech and freedom to be who you want to be. This is
our country. He would do anything to serve this country.”
Nour Ulayyet, 40, of Valparaiso, Ind., told The Associated Press that her
sister, a Syrian living in Saudi Arabia, was sent back after arriving at O’
Hare from Riyadh and told she couldn’t enter the U.S. to help care for
their sick mother. Ulayyet said some officials at the airport were
apologizing to her sister, who had a valid visa.
“My mom was already having pain enough to go through this on top of the
pain that she’s having,” Ulayyet said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-several-reportedly-detained-at-o-hare-international-airport-20170128-story.html | C*I
发帖数: 4736 | | t*********l
发帖数: 778 | 3 这也太狠了 绿卡的都要律师出面去捞人 没绿卡的直接送回去 | C*I
发帖数: 4736 | 4 你看不懂英语？ 瞎扯个毛！ 17个被捞走的全是难民，拿的是签证，有个屁绿卡。
【在 t*********l 的大作中提到】
: 这也太狠了 绿卡的都要律师出面去捞人 没绿卡的直接送回去
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发帖数: 16963 | | f*******e
发帖数: 3433 | 6 Members of the lawyers group said 17 people were taken into custody, and
shortly after 10 p.m. they confirmed that all had been let go. None of them
held refugee status, said Hannah Garst, a Chicago lawyer.
【在 C*I 的大作中提到】
: 你看不懂英语？ 瞎扯个毛！ 17个被捞走的全是难民，拿的是签证，有个屁绿卡。
| C*I
发帖数: 4736 | 7 Nour Ulayyet, 40, of Valparaiso, Ind., told The Associated Press that her
sister, a Syrian living in Saudi Arabia, was sent back after arriving at O’
Hare from Riyadh and told she couldn’t enter the U.S. to help care for
their sick mother. Ulayyet said some officials at the airport were
apologizing to her sister, who had a valid visa.
them
【在 f*******e 的大作中提到】
: Members of the lawyers group said 17 people were taken into custody, and
: shortly after 10 p.m. they confirmed that all had been let go. None of them
: held refugee status, said Hannah Garst, a Chicago lawyer.
| C*I
发帖数: 4736 | 8 “I received political asylum in the United States because I stood up to
terrorists in Yemen,” said Mused, who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years.
“This is the first time in my life that I was made to feel like a terrorist
.” | l***o
发帖数: 7937 | 9 麻痹左逼律师趁着司法部群龙无首称霸王
After
【在 C*I 的大作中提到】
: Fear, anger at O’Hare: Travelers freed after being held over Trump order,
: lawyers say!
: The couple — jet-lagged from their 20-hour trip home from Iran — looked
: tired and confused as they exited customs around 5:30 p.m. Noorian carried
: the names of about a dozen people he said were still being held and phone
: numbers for their relatives.
: Noorian’s brother-in-law, Mohammad Amirisefat, said before Noorian’s
: release: “This is insulting. This is insane, this is truly insane.” After
: the release, Noorian’s wife said: “I can’t believe something like this
: can happen to someone with a green card.”
| x*********0
发帖数: 651 | 10 你看不懂英语？ 瞎扯个毛
【在 C*I 的大作中提到】
: 你看不懂英语？ 瞎扯个毛！ 17个被捞走的全是难民，拿的是签证，有个屁绿卡。
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