Donald Trump Wants The Country To Pay More Attention to Boston

President Trump on Saturday evening asked a simple question Bostonians ask all the time: Why isn't anyone paying more attention to Boston?

Trump of course was talking (well, tweeting) about the decision made Friday by a federal judge in Boston that declined to extend a temporary stay on his immigration ban. The hold was set to expire Sunday.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton was rendered moot shortly after he made it, as a federal judge in Seattle issued a nationwide ruling to temporarily halt Trump's controversial executive order made last weekend.

Trump didn't take kindly to U.S. District Judge Robart's decision, calling him a "so-called" judge in one of his trademark morning tweetstorms.

Robart granted Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson's motion for an immediate restraining order to put Trump's executive order on hold nationwide until Ferguson's larger lawsuit over the travel ban is heard in court. Robart ruled Trump's ban "adversely affects" U.S. citizens.

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Trump's executive order indefinitely banned Syrian refugees from entering the country, temporarily barred other refugees and also stops immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days. It halted dozens held on incoming flights.

The government has since filed an appeal to the judge's ruling in Washington. Meanwhile the Department of Homeland Security has stopped implementing parts of the order affected by the federal ruling and the State Department said it has reversed the tens of thousands of visa revocations issued due to the executive order.

Trump did not take kindly to the judge's decision, repeatedly tweeting about it four times on Saturday.

Trump's claim that "many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country" is not supported by any hard evidence.

Protests erupted across the country, including at Logan Airport, where some passengers were detained the day after the order was issued when the impact to foreign travelers became clear. Travelers, even those with valid visas and green cards, were being denied entry into the country. Two Boston judges then issued a temporary suspension of the order in the city, one of many similar orders that were issued to grant temporary stays against parts of the order.

Officials were forced to clarify how the order would be implemented, later saying it would not apply to green card holders or citizens of dual nationality.

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Feroze Dhanoa, Patch Staff, contributed to this report