Iraqi immigrant freed after being detained at New York airport in wake of Trump immigration action
An Iraqi immigrant was freed Saturday after being detained overnight at one of New York’s airports in the wake of President Trump’s latest executive action on immigration.
Hameed Khalid Darweesh appeared outside John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday afternoon with two members of Congress.
“America is the greatest nation, the greatest people in the world,” Darweesh told reporters.
Darweesh worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army when it invaded Iraq in 2003. Later he was a contract engineer for the U.S. He was granted permission to relocate to the U.S., but was detained along with another traveler from Iraq after arriving at Kennedy Airport Friday night.
Lawyers petitioned a federal court early Saturday to let them go. Two Democratic U.S. Representatives, Nydia Velazquez, D-New York, and Jerrold Nalder, D-New York, were at the airport trying to get 11 other detainees released. Nadler and Velazquez appeared with Darweesh outside the airport.
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Iraqi immigrant freed after being detained at New York's JFK airport in wake of Trump immigration action https://t.co/4LFBbiWPLX pic.twitter.com/wLKfqithTk
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Trump is using EOs liberally. One day, doing so will come back to bite him in the posterior.
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