Five Iraqis, one Yemeni barred from Cairo-New York moody after Trump ban
Area Muslims and internal immigration activists attend in a request and convene opposite President Donald Trump’s immigration policies on Jan 27, 2017 in New York City. PHOTO: AFP
CAIRO: Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir moody from Cairo to New York on Saturday following President Donald Trump’s anathema on a entrance of adults from 7 Muslim-majority countries, sources during Cairo airfield said.
Trump on Friday put a four-month reason on permitting refugees into a United States and temporarily barred travellers from Syria and 6 other Muslim-majority countries, observant a moves would assistance strengthen Americans from militant attacks.
The 6 passengers, firm for John F Kennedy International Airport, were prevented from boarding EgyptAir Flight 985 during Cairo airfield notwithstanding holding current immigration visas, a sources said.
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The 5 Iraqis had arrived in movement from Erbil and were being hold during a airfield until they could be re-boarded on flights behind to Iraq, since a Yemeni newcomer had arrived during a airfield from elsewhere in Cairo, they added.
Trump halted a entrance of travellers from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen for during slightest 90 days, observant his administration indispensable time to rise some-more difficult screening procedures for refugees, immigrants and other visitors.
A UN interloper group orator pronounced it was not nonetheless famous either a 6 travellers had been postulated visas progressing underneath a US interloper programme.
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