Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights project, told The NY Post late Saturday that federal customs agents continue to follow President Trump’s executive order on banning travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries. The agents have been willfully ignoring US District Court Judge Ann Donnelly’s emergency stay which temporarily barred the expulsion of those foreign nationals.
The judge ruled in favor of an ACLU habeas corpus petition on behalf of two Iraqi men who had been detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday.
“The court’s order could not be clearer… they need to comply with the order,” Jadwat said, according to the Post. “It’s enough to be a serious concern.”
The American Civil Liberties Union has requested class-action status to represent foreigners who have been unlawfully detained at US ports of entry. President Trump, for his part, said in the Oval Office on Saturday afternoon that the government was prepared to implement the executive order, expaining that “it’s not a Muslim ban.”
“It’s working out very nicely,” the president said about his new executive order. “You see it at the airports, you see it all over.”