More than 100,000 people lost their visas because of Trump's immigration ban, government lawyer says

President Trump executive order revoked visas.
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President Trump's immigration executive order caused more than 100,000 visas to be revoked, government lawyer Erez Reuveni revealed Friday in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia. Per The Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff, there was an "audible gasp" in the courtroom when Reuveni announced the number during a hearing for a lawsuit filed for two Yemeni brothers who were put on a return flight to Ethiopia after arriving Saturday at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.:

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