In Defiance of Court Orders?

During yesterday's Muslim ban crisis, some airport customs and border patrol officials were refusing to release detainees.

It's not clear to me whether they had the legal right to do so in every instance.

The ruling does not necessarily mean the people being held at airports across the US are going to be released, said Zachary Manfredi, from Yale's Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, who helped draft the emergency stay motion.

"The judge's order is that they (lawful visa/green card holders) not be removed from the US -- it doesn't immediately order that they be released from detention," he told CNN.

"We are hoping that CBP (Customs and Border Patrol), now that they no longer have a reason to detain them, will release them. But it is also possible they could be transferred to (other) detention facilities." "We are getting the order to as many CBP officers as possible right now," he added.

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As many as possible? Are some of the agents incommunicado?

A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the order Saturday night for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries who have already arrived in the US and those who are in transit, and who hold valid visas, ruling they cannot be removed from the US.

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Similar legal rulings were made in Virginia and Washington State. In Massachusetts, however, two judges went further, saying the government should notify travelers who would have been affected by the executive order that for the next seven days they are free to travel to Boston.

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Federal judges in Boston have ruled early Sunday that officials may not detain a person on the basis of President Trump's executive order.

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The US Department of Homeland Security said on Sunday it will comply with judicial orders not to deport detained travelers affected by President Donald Trump's seismic move to ban more than 130 million people from entering the United States.

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President Trump said the government was "totally prepared" for the ban. "It's working out very nicely," Trump told reporters Saturday. "You see it at the airports. You see it all over."

  

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Alternative facts.

Also:

Protests are scheduled Sunday at least even cities: Orlando, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington and Chicago, mostly at airports.

By the way, this is a very thorough and professional article at the Fort Wayne Home Page. Too bad our national news services can't do as good a job as these three reporters: ARIANE DE VOGUE , ELI WATKINS AND ALANNE ORJOUX.