Donald Trump's 2016 presidential race opponent Hillary Clinton reacted to his executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
On Sunday (IST), a federal judge blocked the deportation of dozens of travellers and refugees from seven Muslim-majority nations, stranded at US airports as a result of Trump's order.
In the lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the two men challenged Trump's directive on constitutional grounds. The suit said that their connections to US forces made them targets in their home country and that the pair had valid visas to enter the United States.
The lawsuit highlights some of the legal obstacles facing Trump's new administration as it tries to carry out the directive, which the president signed late on Friday, to impose a four-month ban on refugees entering the United States and a 90-day hold on travellers from Syria, Iran and five other Muslim-majority countries.
In an emergency ruling on Saturday, US District Judge Ann Donnelly ordered authorities to refrain from deporting previously approved refugees as well as "approved holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas and other individuals ... legally authorised to enter the United States" from the countries targeted in Trump's order.
(With agency inputs.)
