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Federal judge partially lifts Trump’s latest refugee restrictions

A federal judge in Seattle partially blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s newest restrictions on refugee admissions on Saturday, the latest legal defeat for his efforts to curtail immigration and travel to the United States. The decision by U.S. District Judge James Robart is the first judicial curb on rules the Trump administration put into place in late October that have contributed significantly to a precipitous drop in the number of […]

today24 December 2017

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US Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ to take full effect

The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday to allow President Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect. The court, with two of the nine justices dissenting, granted the US administration's request to lift two injunctions imposed by lower courts that had partially blocked the ban. The open-ended ban, announced in September, targets people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea, as […]

today5 December 2017

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U.S. judge questions government on Trump’s latest travel ban

U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland heard arguments for and against President Donald Trump’s new travel ban, set to take effect on Wednesday. It indefinitely limits travel from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea. Certain government officials from Venezuela were also barred. All those countries except Chad, North Korea and Venezuela were included in two earlier temporary versions of the travel ban, which Trump’s opponents […]

today17 October 2017

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US settles first Muslim ban lawsuit with campaigners

The US government will allow people barred from entering the country in the early days of President Donald Trump's travel ban to reapply for visas following a legal settlement with campaigners. Under the terms of the agreement, announced on Thursday, the government must contact all individuals who had been turned away at borders as a result of the president's first executive order that came into force on January 27 and […]

today1 September 2017

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Trump administration defends interpretation of travel ban ruling

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump opposed opening the door to grandparents from six Muslim-majority countries on Monday, arguing in a court filing that the government's interpretation of how to implement its temporary travel ban is based on U.S. immigration law. The U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling last Monday revived parts of Trump's March 6 executive order that banned people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen […]

today4 July 2017

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Court maintains block on Trump’s Muslim travel ban

An appeals court from the US state of Virginia refused on Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on travellers from six Muslim-majority nations, stating it was rooted in "intolerance". The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10 to 3 against Trump's travel ban, and indicated opponents of Trump were likely to succeed at trial in showing the policy violates US constitutional prohibitions on religious discrimination. The decision, […]

today26 May 2017

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US appeals court upholds suspension of Trump travel ban

A US federal appeals court panel on Thursday unanimously upheld a temporary suspension of President Donald Trump's order that restricted travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The ruling came in a challenge to Trump's order filed by the states of Washington and Minnesota. The US Supreme Court will likely determine the case's final outcome. "We hold that the government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its […]

today10 February 2017

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