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Update (9:00 P.M.): After a day of nationwide protests and legal challenges, a federal judge has halted some enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order suspending refugee and select non-citizen entry. The emergency stay, granted in the Eastern District of New York, is national.
Importantly, the stay does not permanently ban implementation of the order, and is limited in effect to individuals who already arrived in the United States. It does not halt the Trump administration's orders on future entry. But it does mean that individuals previously granted visas or refugee status and detained Saturday in airports across the country must be released.
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of two Iraqi men detained at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. The A.C.L.U. says it will produce additional legal actions, in the hopes of rolling back limits on new arrivals of refugees and individuals from the seven nations the Trump administration banned. For critics of the executive order, Saturday night's emergency stay as granted represents a glimmer of hopeand a call for continued resistance and action.
The Hive's original report on the events of this remarkable day follow below.
Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending entry of all refugees and barring entry from non-U.S. residents traveling from seven Muslim-majority nations, protesters, lawyers, and elected representatives converged on airports throughout the country.
The protesters wanted to send a message of solidarity to Muslim Americans and register their dissent against the White House's actions. The lawyers sought the release of dozens of detained refugees and immigrants who had the misfortune of being airborne when Trump signed the order. And the politicians lent their credibility to both causes.
In New York City, legal advocates and two members of Congress periodically updated protesters and press on the situation inside John F. Kennedy Airport. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey removed all protesters and media from the airport's international terminal.
"Mr. President, what you have done is shameful, and it's un-American," said Rep. Nydia Velázquez, a Democrat whose Congressional district includes parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Lower Manhattan. "This executive order is arbitrary, and it is unjust. One by one, street by street, if we have to go to court: we will fight this, anywhere."
Customs and Border Patrol officers refused to identify the detained individuals, cutting them off from legal advocacy groups that wished to work on their behalf. According to individuals who interacted with C.B.P., the Trump administration had provided no guidance on how the order should be carried out, sowing confusion and putting individual officers in the position of deciding whether or not to allow some refugees traveling on special visas and so-called "green card" holders (permanent residents) into the country. There were reports of tense confrontations between customs agents and members of congress.
"There are hundreds of people who are going to be put into jail today because the Department of Homeland Security is choosing to interpret the policy to allow them to detain people who are attempting to lawfully enter this country after years and years of vetting, and we can not stand by while that happens," Becca Heller, the executive director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, said outside of Kennedy airport.
Additionally, Heller said there were reports that the Department of Homeland Security had instructed its officers to detain arriving individuals and "coerce them into being deported voluntarily, which is also illegal, if someone is afraid to return."
Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat representing parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, described the actions as "disgusting" and a violation of "every tradition in this country."
Protest organizers and immigration and refugee advocacy groups in New York said they expected the protest to continue throughout the remainder of the day and evening. A group of rabbis was scheduled to lead a solidarity vigil. (Trump signed the order blocking refugees on National Holocaust Remembrance Day, thereby inviting disturbing comparisons the U.S. decision to turn away refugees from Nazi Germany, many of whom returned home to be killed.)
Dozens of lawyers flocked to airports throughout the country, with some forming groups to comb crowds and look for families awaiting relatives affected by the executive order. At times, this work was done discreetly, to avoid drawing the attention of authorities looking to clear terminals of anyone not waiting to meet a specific traveler. It was not immediately clear how many families had been identified at Kennedy.
At Texas's Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, representatives from the Council on American Islamic Relations gathered and briefed relatives of refugees and other passengers.

"The mayor and the mayor's office are deeply disappointed by the executive order," said CommissionerNisha Agarwal, of the New York City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. "We will work very closely with all the lawyers and activist groups who are here today, because this has to be all hands on deck. It's really just a mess, and the impact on human lives is devastating."
Hameed Khalid Darweesh, an Iraqi man who worked as an interpreter for the United States, was released from Kennedy airport after an hours-long detention. Darweesh's release provided a burst of energy for the assembled protesters and advocates, who chanted "Welcome home!" as he exited the terminal.
"America is the greatest nation in the world," Darweesh said, when asked how it feels to be released. "The greatest people in the world."
During his detention, Darweesh said that someone told him, "Do not worry, this is Americawhen you arrive here, there is a Constitution, and there are laws."
The White House did not respond yet to a request for comment on the detained refugees, protests, and condemnations by members of Congress and human rights advocates.