Hawaii seeks to block Donald Trump’s new travel ban

Can Trump’s new order be stopped like the last one?

Yet Trump stands a good chance of prevailing in court, as presidents maintain broad latitude in matters of immigration and national security. But civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers are not buying it.

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The three-judge panel with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, for example, said that exempting green card and current visa holders from the ban would not address their concern about USA citizens with an interest in noncitizens’ travel. Chaos ensued as thousands of protesters crammed airports that weekend, and judges began barring the government from deporting certain passengers. Hawaii wannts to challenge that new executive order in court.

The state’s compalint will need permission from the federal court that heard the original suit to go forward, and the its lawyers seek an expedited ruling to block the new ban before it goes into effect on March 16.

The new ban, which will be phased in after 10 days, excludes Iraq but still includes Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It does not apply to travellers who already have visas. Citizens from those nations will be exposed to the 90-day hold on issuances of visas, just as they were in the original order that Trump signed in late January.

“Given that the new Executive Order began life as a “Muslim ban”, its implementation also means that the State will be forced to tolerate a policy that disfavors one religion and violates the Establishment Clauses of both the federal and state constitutions”, the proposed complaint states. Spicer has called the second order part of a “dual-track system” that would ensure a higher level of border scrutiny while the court case on the first order is litigated.

“They dotted their i’s and crossed their t’s in trying to anticipate what litigation might result”, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a Cornell Law School professor.

Stock said he is already aware of academic conferences that are being scheduled outside the USA, and he believes the ban will prompt foreign students to think twice about applying to US schools.

“This new executive order is nothing more than Muslim ban 2.0”, Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said in a statement Monday.

Iraqi government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said the revision to the travel ban shows that the two countries have a “real partnership”. They said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now investigating 300 refugees already inside the United States for suspected terror links or sympathies. It depends on how well the countries comply with U.S. requirements.

In a lawsuit from Washington state and Minnesota over the ban, plaintiffs argued that residents were being harmed because families were being separated, green-card holders were stranded aboard, and foreign scholars and students with valid visas in the USA were afraid to leave the country.

Top Republicans welcomed the changes. Sen. Her comments Monday are the first time an administration official had definitively and publicly said the nation will be removed from the order. It said there has not been a deadly terrorist attack by a refugee since the US resettlement program was launched in 1980. “The executive has pretty broad authority in general in the immigration context and the authority is at its broadest with respect to non-citizens who have never entered the USA”.

“This ban is a racist and anti-Islamic attempt to divide us up”. It doesn’t affect some Gulf and Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, which, he argued, have had many citizens involved in terror attacks.