Nearly 2,000 people from the seven countries affected by President Donald Trump’s first travel ban faced additional screening at airports and other entry points in the days before a federal judge fully blocked the measure nationwide, according to a newly released document that calls into question the government’s initial assessments of the impact of the ban.
The document was released by the American Civil Liberties Union just as the civil liberties organization and others settled their legal case against the government over the president’s first attempt to bar citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.