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Week In Review: Trump's Executive Order On Immigration And Boston's Federal Hearing

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Crowds gather in Copley Square protesting President Trump's executive order on immigration. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Crowds gather in Copley Square protesting President Trump's executive order on immigration. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

In Boston federal court today, Massachusetts civil liberties lawyers argued that President Trump's executive order on immigration violates the Constitution, and should be permanently overturned.

The case comes at the end of a tumultuous week in Boston, following the president's signing of the ban on Friday night — one that immediately barred visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries. Tens of thousands of visas have been revoked.

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Shannon Dooling, WBUR reporter. She tweets @sdooling.

Tiziana Dearing, co-director of the Center for Social Innovation at Boston College, and a member of WBUR's executive advisory board. She tweets @tiziana_dearing.

Charlie Chieppo, senior fellow at the Pioneer Institute and research fellow at the Ash Center of Harvard's Kennedy School. He tweets @CharlieChieppo.

This segment aired on February 3, 2017.

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