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Judge bars deportations US judge bars deportations under Trump travel ban ALICIA A. CALDWELL

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued an emergency order Saturday night temporarily barring the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban. U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly in New York issued the emergency order after lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a court petition on behalf of people from seven pre-

dominantly Muslim nations who were detained at airports across the country as the ban took effect. As the decision was announced, cheers broke out in crowds of demonstrators who had gathered at American airports and outside the Brooklyn courthouse where the ruling was issued. The order barred U.S. border agents from removing anyone who arrived in the U.S. with a valid visa from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. It also covered anyone with an approved refugee application. It was unclear how quickly the order might affect people in detention. Under Trump’s order, it had ap-

peared that an untold number of foreign-born U.S. residents now traveling outside the U.S. could be stuck overseas for at least 90 days even though they held permanent residency “green cards” or other visas. However, an official with the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday night that no green-card holders from the seven countries cited in Trump’s order had been prevented from entering the U.S. Some foreign nationals who Please see JUDGE, Page A9

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order on extreme vetting during an event at the Pentagon in Washington, Friday.

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‘Not the American way’ Idaho refugee advocates condemn executive order NATHAN BROWN

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executive orders signed by the president Wednesday. “Everybody who advocates for immigrants is extremely worried,” said Chris Christensen, an immigration lawyer with

BOISE — There will still be plenty to do at the Idaho Office for Refugees on Monday morning, helping people who already live here. What the office won’t be doing anytime soon is greeting new refugees at the airport and helping them start their new lives in America. “We will have our hands full making the best of a bad situation,” Idaho Office for Refugees Director Jan Reeves said. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a far-reaching executive order that ends all refugee resettlement for four months while changes are made to the screening process, bans all travel from seven Middle Eastern and African countries for 90 days and suspends any resettlement of Syrian refugees indefinitely. When the four-month moratorium is lifted, only 50,000 refugees will be allowed to resettle in the fiscal year running from Oct. 1, 2016, to Sept. 30, 2017, as opposed to the 110,000 that former President Barack Obama would have allowed. And the order says to prioritize, as much as legally possible, “refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality.” In the case of people from the Middle East, this would mean prioritizing in the future Christians and other

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Maria Rivera of Burley prepares for the 4 p.m. start of a swing shift at J.R. Simplot Co.’s Heyburn potato-processing plant in November 2002. Preparing to be laid off as the plant shut down, the quality-assurance lab tech struggled to keep up with college classes as her work schedule changed. Simplot’s work load increased as its staff thinned, she said that fall. ‘Things have gotten really bad. They’re expecting a lot more out of us, and it’s really stressful.’

In 2002, when J.R Simplot Co. announced it would close its Heyburn potato-processing plant and put nearly 650 people out of work, many feared Mini-Cassia would dry up like Idaho’s mining ghost towns. But as the 15th anniversary of that day approaches, Mini-Cassia’s economy is thriving. And on the site where Simplot made french fries, workers now make cheese, provide drug counseling and wash semi trucks. How did Mini-Cassia accomplish its phoenix rise? See the story on E1.

Many see problems with Trump’s immigration orders ALEX RIGGINS

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TWIN FALLS — Could Magic Valley police soon be roaming local neighborhoods in search of illegal immigrants to deport? If

executive orders signed by President Donald Trump are carried out to their full extent, that could be the case. While much of the attention this week was focused on Trump’s executive orders halting refugee resettlement and ordering a bor-

der wall be built along the southern border with Mexico, immigrant-rights advocates are just as troubled by the orders calling on local and state law enforcement agencies “to perform the functions of immigration officers.” That wording was used in two

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