Border Patrol flouted a federal injunction against Trump's order, barring lawyers from reaching legal U.S. residents detained at Dulles airport.
Late
Saturday night, in the jam-packed baggage terminal for international
arrivals at Washington Dulles International Airport, dozens of lawyers
and hundreds of protesters watched as the first major Constitutional
crisis of the Trump presidency played out. The day before, Trump signed
an executive order barring people from seven majority-Muslim countries
from entering the United States. But many people traveling to the U.S.
from those countries––including legal permanent residents of the
U.S.––were already in the air and couldn’t turn around. As a result,
airports across the country turned into lawfare zones, with cadres of
volunteer lawyers squaring off against bureaucrats in the Customs and Border Protection agency.
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