State Dept. says about 60,000 visas revoked due to travel ban; Justice Dept. atty says 100,000

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Over 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Trump’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, an attorney for the government revealed in Alexandria federal court Friday.

The number came out during a hearing in a lawsuit filed by attorneys for two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport last Saturday. They were coerced into giving up their immigrant visas, they argue, and quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia.

That figure was immediately disputed by the State Department, which said the number of visas revoked was roughly 60,000. Virginia Elliott, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department, said the revocation has no impact on the legal status of people already in the United States. If those people were to leave U.S. soil and try to return, the visas would no longer be valid.

 During the hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Erez Reuveni from the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation, could not say how many people with visas were sent back to their home countries from Dulles in response to the travel ban. However, he did say that all people with green cards who came through the airport have been let into the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/government-reveals-over-100000-visas-revoked-due-to-travel-ban/2017/02/03/7d529eec-ea2c-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?utm_term=.d689e14e6f83&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation

[tblue37]

1. My Iranian students are afraid to go home over break, and I have strongly advised them

NOT to travel outside the US for any reason as long as the BannonTrump regime is in control, because even if the ban were to be lifted, there is no guarantee it would not be suddenly reinstated.

[mwooldri]

2. That's much more than the 100-odd claimed by WH.

[kwassa]

3. oh, it's only a few extra zeros.