...A complaint filed with the inspector general for Homeland Security details what two legal advocacy groups call “systemic abuses and violations of the rights of individuals lawfully entering the United States” after an executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

People caught up in the confusion after the travel ban was imposed were denied access to lawyers, held in detention for hours without food, and were in some instances coerced into signing away their entry visas, the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic at Cardozo School of Law and the Center for Constitutional Rights said in the 99-page complaint filed late Monday. ...

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