Federal judges in Boston stay immigration, visa ban for a week

By adamg on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 10:21am

The ACLU of Massachusetts reports two judges in US District Court in Boston early today ordered the government to let immigrants and green-card and visa holders from seven predominantly Muslim countries enter the US through Logan Airport.

The ruling comes in a case involving two UMass Dartmouth professors with green cards who were detained for several hours at Logan yesterday.

Arghavan Louhghalam and Mazdak Pourabdollah Tootkaboni are both civil-engineering professors originally from Iran.

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Comments

And Trump's response...

By FlyingToaster on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 1:16pm.

Warning: Downfall again.

Mostly Excellent

By Irma la Douce on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 2:48pm.

Thank you for the much needed laughs. A minor quibble: people have actually been making fun of the tiny hands for decades (cf "short-fingered vulgarian")

Graydon Carter

By BikerGeek on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 7:51pm.

was the original author of that phrase, published in SPY magazine in 1988.

Carter recently wrote that he still gets photos from Trump of Trump's hands, with the notation: "See? Not so short."

Like, this one-time, throwaway comment that should have been forgotten a week after the magazine it was printed in faded from newsstands, has been the genesis of this ongoing feud between Carter and Trump that's lasted nearly 30 years. WTF?