February 04, 2017 - 7:40 PM
NEW YORK - Travellers at New York's Kennedy International Airport seem to be entering the United States undeterred a day after a federal judge blocked Donald Trump's executive order banning people from seven mostly Muslim countries.
Speaking for a dozen attorneys monitoring arrivals Saturday evening, Alan Kaplan told The Associated Press that no one under the ban Trump signed a week ago appears to have been detained. The lawyers say that's a vast improvement over the high anxiety that filled airports worldwide as travellers were turned back.
On Friday, a Seattle federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of Trump's ban. The Department of Justice filed a notice Saturday to appeal the ruling in court.
In his executive order, Trump named seven countries as harbouring potential terrorists: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen.
News from © The Associated Press, 2017