Hawaii in challenge over new Trump travel ban

It keeps a 90-day ban on travel to the United States by citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, but excludes Iraq and applies the restriction only to new visa applicants.

The revised ban, set to take effect March 16, impacts “a smaller number”.

The state of Hawaii requested emergency court intervention on Wednesday to halt a revised executive order from President Donald Trump placing USA entry restrictions on refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.

The man had challenged Trump’s first travel order as well but U.S. District Judge William Conley had put the lawsuit aside after a federal judge in Washington state blocked that the Trump ban in February. It just suspends all visas for individuals in six Muslim-majority countries and completely shuts down the refugee program.

A Syrian man filed a complaint in federal court in Madison on Friday alleging the travel ban is unconstitutional and will prevent his family from leaving Aleppo and joining him in Wisconsin.

“Even for the thousands of refugees who have already followed all the rules, and have already been subject to extreme security vetting, President Trump will not allow them into the United States”.

“The test is whether or not a motivating factor behind the travel ban was an improper religious bias against Muslims”, Ferguson said. “You bet”, Ferguson told NPR. “The language is virtually identical”.

The legal arguments against the original order still hold, Ferguson believes.

“It can not be a game of whack-a-mole for the court”, Ferguson said.

“We are going to enforce the law respectfully, humanely, and with professionalism, but we will enforce the law”, Kelly said of implementing the new order. This time, Iraq’s off the list but six other majority-Muslim countries are still on it. Critics say it’s a watered-down repackaged Muslim ban and vow to fight it in court.

In an indication that the Washington challenge would likely become a major focal point of the continued legal resistances to Trump’s order, the states of NY and OR requested to join the case brought by Ferguson.

“We feel very confident with how that was crafted and the input that was given”, Spicer said.

Like the original executive order, the new order directs the Department of Homeland Security to set new standards for how much information other countries will have to give the USA when their citizens apply to come here.

Trump administration has made significant changes to its previous order.

Ferguson – who is joined in the suit by the Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson – said that he and his team would review their legal options over the weekend.