CNN editor sues after being detained at Atlanta airport under Trump travel ban

A CNN editor has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s travel ban, after being detained at Atlanta’s (GA) airport recently because of the controversial executive order. Mohammed Tawfeeq, an Iraqi citizen and US green card holder since 2013, was returning from Iraq on Sunday following a CNN assignment in his role as manager for CNN’s international desk. Officials at Atlanta Hartsfield/Jackson international airport told him he could be refused entry because of the executive order, questioned him on why he was in Iraq and then “told Mr Tawfeeq to wait because they needed to seek ‘an email’ concerning whether he would be allowed into the United States”, according to the lawsuit filed in the northern district of Georgia federal court.