The Justice Department Friday settled a class action lawsuit filed by those unable to enter the U.S. following President Donald Trump’s initial travel ban.
The settlement would allow for people who attempted to enter the country at first but could not to enable anyone whose visas were rejected the right to reapply.
The lawsuit was filed last January by two Iraqi nationals attempting to enter the U.S., one day after the president signed an executive order to prevent travelers from several Muslim majority nations from getting into the country. A judge initially sided with the two men and stopped the implementation of the executive order.
The DOJ, however, said in a statement to UPI that the plaintiffs’ arguments were essentially debatable because both were allowed to enter the U.S. after Trump rolled back the order and filed a second executive order, which did not include Iraq on the list of banned countries.
In a statement, the Justice Department said the settlement, filed Thursday in federal district court in Brooklyn, N.Y., was largely moot because the two plaintiffs had already been allowed to enter the country after Trump rescinded the order and filed a second one, which did not include Iraq on the list of nations from which travel is banned.
Neither the federal government nor the plaintiffs would mention many people the settlement covered and the government did not admit wrongdoing or pay plaintiffs legal fees, but the American Civil Liberties Union said the government must make contact with every person who was not allowed into the U.S. as a result of the first travel ban and give each the opportunity to reapply.
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