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The botched rollout of the Trump administration's first executive order banning travel from several majority Muslim nations resulted in federal agents violating court orders by telling airlines not to admit certain passengers, according to a Homeland Security watchdog.
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) inspector general informed lawmakers this week that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents violated at least two court orders in their zeal to enforce the new mandate and prevent specific passengers from the nations on the ban from boarding a plane.
"While CBP was compliant at U.S. ports of entry with travelers who had already arrived, CBP was very aggressive in preventing affected travelers from boarding aircraft bound for the United States, and took actions that, in our view, violated two separate court orders that enjoined them from this activity," Inspector General John Roth wrote.