A.G Schneiderman Files Suit against Pres. Trump’s Second Immigration Ban
The State of New York officially joins the Western district of Washington lawsuit which is alongside Washington State, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Oregon.
The A.G Schneiderman has filed 20 declarations from very important NY institutions, locations, businesses, and how this has also impacted certain individuals.
A.G Schneiderman: “Pres. Trump’s Second executive order is just a Muslim ban by another name.”
Today, A.G. Schneiderman has formally filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s second immigration ban. With this New York is now officially joining Washington State’s lawsuit in the Western District. They also include Washington, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Oregon in filing a complaint which would affect this second executive order and the impact it would have against the U.S., its residents and most importantly our economy.
Along with this, the state of New York has also filed 20 declarations which include from institutions, localities, businesses, and organizations. These also include from the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY); also the cities of Ithaca and Rochester; the Greater New York Hospital Association: the International Institute of Buffalo: also tech companies have added which include famous companies such as Kick starter, Etsy and Meet up. Scientists from Iran and Yemeni-Americans have also been impacted as they are separated by their families. A list of all declarations by the states can be viewed here. The declarations made of the city of New York can be also viewed here.
“As our complaint details, President Trump’s second executive order is just a Muslim Ban by another name, seeking to accomplish the same unlawful and unconstitutional goals of the first ban” said by the A.G himself. “The Trump administration’s continued intent to discriminate against Muslims is clear- and it undermines New York’s families, institutions, and economy . I’m proud to join my fellow Attorney Generals as we marshal our resource to take on this latest unconstitutional executive order.”
The amended complaint details President Trump’s continued intention to discriminate against Muslims, with actual statements from the President himself and also from administration officials and surrogates. It quotes senior advisor Stephen Miller which the following was said on the 21st of February that with this second executive order would “mostly minor technical differences” from the first; even our current Press Secretary Sean Spicer comments made on the 27th of February state that “the goal [of the second executive order] is obviously to maintain the way that we did the first time.”
With this recent complaint made it shows that this newly “revised” ban violates the Equal Protection, Establishment, and Procedural Due Process clauses of the Constitution, as well as the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, The Administrative Act, and finally our Tenth Amendment.
The complaint made today also describes the effects and harms made to individual plaintiff states. In the state of New York there is over 4.4 million foreign-born residents, including more than 13,000 who were born in one of the six countries which Trump has listed in his recent executive order. Over 2 percent or nearly about 400,000 of people in the state of New York identify themselves as a Muslim.
Below are reasons on how this revised immigration ban is a negative towards us:
It would undermine New York colleges and Universities’ ability to accept, hire, or keep their best students or scholars if they are international parts of the world. With that said CUNY (City University) enrolls more than 850 students and SUNY (State University) enrolls 232 from the countries that are currently in danger. International students from those countries enrolled to New York are estimated to have contributed $28.8 million to state’s economy in 2015.
It would harm health care institutions in the state, which rely heavily on foreign nationals- including from the six countries mentioned in the President’s executive order to provide healthcare to New Yorkers, train and teach the next generation of New York’s medical professionals, and conduct critical research. This highlights New York’s safety-net hospitals’ reliance on foreign national physicians.
It Hurt New York State’s tourism industry. This second executive order has already had a very chilling effect on tourism, with NYC, Ithaca, and other places excepting a huge drop in tourism.
This could harm refugees, that would include children or those residing in New York and those already vetted for resettlement in the United States, this would cause fear and uncertainty. It would reintroduce the type of persecutory and government-instilled fear that caused by their own government.
