{"id":12020,"date":"2017-02-03T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T02:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2017-02-03T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T02:22:50","slug":"tens-of-thousands-of-legal-visas-revoked-since-trump-muslim-ban-bradcast-232017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12020","title":{"rendered":"Tens of Thousands of Legal Visas Revoked Since Trump ‘Muslim Ban’: ‘BradCast’ 2\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: The ‘Muslim Ban’, one week after it was ordered, is even worse than it initially appeared. But, despite the chaos and heartbreak, the response from Americans and those around the world, is heartening. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

Chaos continues in the wake of Trump’s executive order banning most travel from 7 majority-Muslim countries. And there were reportedly audible gasps<\/a> in a federal courtroom in Virginia on Friday, as a U.S. Government attorney revealed<\/a> that some 100,000 legal visas had been rescinded in the week since Donald Trump’s order was signed. (A State Department official later claimed<\/a> the number was really ‘only’ about 60,000.)<\/p>\n

Jess Hanson<\/b> of the National Immigration Law Center<\/a> joins us to describe the continuing crises as “terrifying”, as her organization works to assist green card holders who are still being prevented from entering or returning to the U.S., immigrants and other legal visa holders still being detained without legal representation or blocked from traveling here despite federal court orders, and those who are otherwise unconstitutionally losing their rights under the order.<\/p>\n

“There have been a lot of organizing efforts with volunteer attorneys on the ground, in U.S. airports, and a massive effort to try to communicate with people who are traveling to the U.S. who are in this situation, to let an attorney on the ground know what airport they’re arriving to so that if the individual is allowed to board their flight, when they land in the United States, there is an attorney waiting for them,” she explains. But, she adds, “not everyone has the opportunity or resources to find a U.S. attorney before they leave their country of origin” and “a lot of these cases of detention and not allowing someone to speak with an attorney are simply slipping through the cracks.”<\/p>\n

“Tens of thousands of people…their family, their friends, whatever reason they were going to come to the United States or return to the United States, that has a ripple effect. It’s affecting all of us,” Hanson tells me. “It’s easy to dehumanize numbers — ‘Oh yeah, 60,000 out of 11 million, that’s just a drop in the bucket’. But 60,000 or 100,000, whatever the numbers are, that’s a lot of people, and it’s having global — honestly global — effects.”<\/p>\n

We discuss all of that, as well as the other immigration-related Executive Orders receiving much less coverage since Trump’s ban was enacted. Hanson also details a number of ways that you can help<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also today<\/i>: The Dept. of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General announces a probe<\/a> into the Trump Administration’s disastrous<\/a> implementation of the ban; A large swath of Americans already want to see the wildly unpopular Trump impeached<\/a>; GOP Senators are apologizing<\/a> to our allies for Trump; Phones are ringing off the hook<\/a> at the U.S. Capitol; And we share a few more signs of hope and encouragement<\/a> (and even some laughs!) from both home and abroad after just two weeks(!) of this insanely inept and calamitous Administration.<\/p>\n

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