After President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 immigration order upended the travel plans of a 12-year-old Iranian girl scheduled for surgery in the United States and placed her visa in peril, Shaimaa Hussein, a senior associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York, hopped a plane to Istanbul to personally escort the child to America.
Meanwhile at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents summarily began deporting arrivals, two Mayer Brown partners–Paul Hughes and Andrew Pincus–and Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg of the Legal Aid Justice Center, secured a temporary restraining order from a federal judge on behalf of two Yemeni brothers to try to prevent their removal.
