Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is filing a lawsuit seeking to invalidate key provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring refugees and limiting travel by citizens of seven majority Muslim countries.
Ferguson said the lawsuit will be backed by declarations from companies including Expedia and Amazon.com that will testify to the economic impacts of Trump’s immigration order.
Signed on Friday, Trump’s order sparked a wave of protests across the country over the weekend, with huge crowds pouring into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport amid reports that refugees and immigrants from countries targeted by the travel ban were being detained there.
Two men – citizens of Yemen and Sudan – were released Sunday morning after being detained at the airport by agents from Customs and Border Protection. Volunteer lawyers for the two obtained an emergency temporary restraining order preventing their removal from the country pending a hearing this week.
Other elected officials, including U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Governor Jay Inslee, and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, have condemned the executive order. (Seattle Times)
