Hawaii Blocks Trump Travel Ban
- Ife Adedoyin
- Mar 16, 2017
- 1 min read
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A federal judge in Hawaii has issued a nationwide restraining order on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, temporarily blocking the executive order from going into effect on Thursday as planned.
In his ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson argued that the revised ban still discriminates on the basis of nationality and prevents Hawaii residents from receiving visits from relatives living in the six Muslim-majority countries the executive order targets, according to the Associated Press.
The revised travel ban applies only to new visas from Somalia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen and temporarily shuts down the U.S. refugee program. It does not apply to travellers who already have visas.
The ban was scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, 10 days after Trump signed the revised order. The delayed effect of the ban was to give fair warning to those who could potentially be affected ― completely different to Trump’s original executive order, which left thousands stranded, detained or with their visas canceled without notice.
Signed on Jan. 27, the first travel ban went into effect immediately, unleashing chaos as attorneys and volunteers spent days at airports trying to assist people who had been detained. Protests went on in cities around the world and in many US airports.
You can read the full order below.
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