The State Department has been forced to restore thousands of visas after a judge suspended the temporary immigration veto yesterday. Trump called this decision "ridiculous" and said that failure to implement it would cause "major problems"
The White House has announced that its lawyers will present "as soon as possible" an appeal to the ruling with the aim of restoring the veto that, in its view, is "legal" and "appropriate."
"The (executive) order aims to protect the country and the president has the constitutional duty and responsibility to do so," the White House said in a statement.
The blockade marks the first slap for the Trump government and a political victory for Democrats whose general prosecutors in Washington and Minnesota had filed a lawsuit that resulted in the suspension.
The judge who blocked the veto
It was Federal Judge James Robart, with a court in Seattle (Washington state), which immediately blocked the controversial executive order, which vetoed the entry into the United States of America of immigrants from Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Somalia , Sudan, Syria and Libya, in addition to the Syrian refugees.
That suspension is temporary and governs until Robart makes a final decision on the legality of the presidential order or until a higher judicial body than the government, such as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court as a last resort, Decide to lift it.
Robart, a judge nominated by former Republican President George W. Bush (2001-2009), said in his ruling that the "circumstances presented" to him "are such as to require intervention to comply with constitutional order."
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