“These are all children, parents and the spouses of U.S. Gartland said two major airlines have turned them down, but they are trying to work with smaller airlines that will follow Birotte’s order. Julie Goldberg, the Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer who filed the lawsuit that prompted Birotte’s order, is trying to arrange flights for dozens of Yemeni citizens who have immigrant visas and are stranded in the tiny African nation of Djibouti, including the 12-year-old girl Gartland represents. “It’s just a matter of getting it into the right hands of someone who’ll obey the court order.” “This court order is a major victory and definitely gives us a path forward,” said Gartland. under Birotte’s order, but said she’s optimistic. citizens living in California, acknowledged Wednesday that her client and hundreds of others with immigrant visas still may not be allowed in the U.S. Stacey Gartland, a San Francisco attorney who represents a 12-year-old Yemeni girl whose parents and siblings are U.S. The State Department ordered all visas from the seven countries revoked on Friday, and the government has maintained that orders similar to Birotte’s do not apply because the visas are no longer valid.ĬNN Journalist Says He Was Wrongly Detained Under Trump Order ordered the government not to cancel any validly obtained immigrant visas or bar anyone from the seven nations holding them from entering the U.S.īut it was unclear whether the order will have any effect. In a temporary restraining order issued late Tuesday, Judge Andre Birotte Jr. despite President Donald Trump’s executive order banning them.
government to allow people holding immigrant visas from seven majority-Muslim nations into the U.S. A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the U.S.
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