Yemenis stuck in Africa by travel ban arrive in Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES — More than two dozen Yemenis who were stranded in Africa by President Donald Trump’s travel ban flew into Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The group’s flight landed at about 4:30 p.m. at Los Angeles International Airport after court orders allowed their travel from Djibouti by way of Turkey. The travellers and their attorney came out of customs about 90 minutes later to little fanfare and few greeters other than a handful of reporters and TV news cameras.
The State Department had claimed their visas were invalidated as part of Trump’s temporary ban on travel from Yemen and six other majority Muslim countries. The order also barred visitors from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, for three months and Syrians indefinitely.
Migrants have begun arriving in the U.S. after a federal judge in Seattle put Trump’s executive order on hold. Trump administration lawyers have appealed that decision and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule later this week.
