Rep. Nydia Velazquez breaks down crying. Iraqi man, a former U.S. Army translator, released as another national remains detained at JFK Airport. A heroic Iraqi man who worked as a U.S. Army translator in his homeland was released Saturday after his detention at JFK Airport under President Trump’s arriving refugee ban. A second Iraqi national remained in the custody of federal officials as lawyers filed a federal writ of habeus corpus seeking his immediate release. Both men were taken into custody Friday in the hours after Trump signed his executive order barring refugees from entering the United States. Hameed Khalid Darweesh was turned loose after U.S. Reps. Jerry Nadler and Nydia Valazquez went to the Queens airport to meet with the detained man. Darweesh said his lawyer told him the hold-up would be temporary. “He said, ‘This is America. There is a Constitution. Just be patient,’” said Darweesh, who pumped his fist to cheers at the airport once he was freed. Lawyer Lara Finkbeiner said she was told a dozen refugees were in custody Saturday at JFK. Attorneys for Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, speaking in the arrivals hall of Terminal 4, said they were blocked from meeting with their clients.
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Rep. Nydia Velazquez breaks down crying. Iraqi man, a former U.S. Army translator, released as another national remains detained at JFK Airport. A heroic Iraqi man who worked as a U.S. Army translator in his homeland was released Saturday after his detention at JFK Airport under President Trump’s arriving refugee ban. A second Iraqi national remained in the custody of federal officials as lawyers filed a federal writ of habeus corpus seeking his immediate release. Both men were taken into custody Friday in the hours after Trump signed his executive order barring refugees from entering the United States. Hameed Khalid Darweesh was turned loose after U.S. Reps. Jerry Nadler and Nydia Valazquez went to the Queens airport to meet with the detained man. Darweesh said his lawyer told him the hold-up would be temporary. “He said, ‘This is America. There is a Constitution. Just be patient,’” said Darweesh, who pumped his fist to cheers at the airport once he was freed. Lawyer Lara Finkbeiner said she was told a dozen refugees were in custody Saturday at JFK. Attorneys for Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, speaking in the arrivals hall of Terminal 4, said they were blocked from meeting with their clients.
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