US appeals court upholds block on Trump travel ban

BTN News
Tuesday, 13 June 2017

A US appeals court has upheld a decision blocking president Trump's revised 90-day 'travel ban' on people from six mainly-Muslim nations. The administration had claimed the travel ban is needed to prevent terrorism in the US. A lower court had issued the injunction on the grounds that the ban was discriminatory (after a challenge by the state of Hawaii). The ban was to apply to people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen and also called for a 120-day block on all refugees, but lawyers for Hawaii had described Mr Trump's executive order as a "thinly veiled Muslim ban".
In their ruling, the judges said that "immigration, even for the president, is not a one-person show".
They said Trump had failed to show that the entry of people from the six countries mentioned in the ban as well as refugees would be detrimental to US interests.
But the judges said the government was allowed to review the vetting process for people entering the US - something the earlier Hawaii ruling had blocked.
An earlier version of Trump's travel ban, issued in January, was blocked by a judge because it "probably violated the due process rights of individuals with valid residency papers and visas".

US appeals court upholds block on Trump travel ban

BTN News
Tuesday, 13 June 2017

A US appeals court has upheld a decision blocking president Trump's revised 90-day 'travel ban' on people from six mainly-Muslim nations. The administration had claimed the travel ban is needed to prevent terrorism in the US. A lower court had issued the injunction on the grounds that the ban was discriminatory (after a challenge by the state of Hawaii). The ban was to apply to people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen and also called for a 120-day block on all refugees, but lawyers for Hawaii had described Mr Trump's executive order as a "thinly veiled Muslim ban".
In their ruling, the judges said that "immigration, even for the president, is not a one-person show".
They said Trump had failed to show that the entry of people from the six countries mentioned in the ban as well as refugees would be detrimental to US interests.
But the judges said the government was allowed to review the vetting process for people entering the US - something the earlier Hawaii ruling had blocked.
An earlier version of Trump's travel ban, issued in January, was blocked by a judge because it "probably violated the due process rights of individuals with valid residency papers and visas".