Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday that all travel from Ireland and the United Kingdom to the U.S. will be suspended, effective midnight EST on Monday. He said Americans and legal residents abroad in those countries can return home.
Why it matters: The administration initially left the two off its restricted travel list, but that case has been weakened due to an uptick in cases in the UK.
Details: The travel restrictions do not apply to cargo or economic shipping, officials with the coronavirus task force said. Continue reading.
The following column by the Washington Post Editorial Board was posted on their website September 10, 2017:
ONCE AGAIN, a federal court has ruled against the Trump adminis
FILE – In this May 15, 2017 file photo, protesters wave signs and chant during a demonstration against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, rejected the Trump administration’s limited view of who is allowed into the United States under the president’s travel ban, saying grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people in the U.S. should not be prevented from coming to the country. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) (Ted S. Warren/AP)
ration’s temporary ban on admission into the United States of refugees and citizens of six majority-Muslim countries. And once again, the Justice Department is appealing the ruling to the Supreme Court — this time arguing that the government should not have to exclude from the ban grandparents or other close family members of people within the United States, along with refugees sponsored by American resettlement organizations, while the case is pending before the court.
It’s not clear what the Justice Department hopes to gain by appealing this injunction against Mr. Trump’s executive order, as the Supreme Court was already set to hear arguments on the ban’s legality on Oct. 10. What’s more, a significant portion of the ban will likely have expired by that date — and the rest before the justices can even rule on the case.
Mr. Trump’s order halts entry into the United States by citizens of the six banned countries for 90 days and suspends refugee admissions for 120 days. After courts blocked the ban, Mr. Trump clarified that these clocks would begin ticking as soon as the policy was allowed to go into effect. Because the Supreme Court lifted in part the lower-court injunctions against the order on June 26, the refugee ban will expire in late October, and the entry ban at the end of September. Continue reading “Trump’s travel ban may expire before it reaches the Supreme Court”
The following article by Matt Zapotosky and Robert Barnes was posted on the Washington Post website June 13, 2017:
Can President Trump actually “break up” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which has blocked two of his executive orders, as he has said he’s considered? (Gillian Brockell,Osman Malik/The Washington Post)
A West Coast federal appeals court upheld the freeze on President Trump’s travel ban Monday, declaring that Trump had exceeded his lawful authority in suspending the issuance of visas to residents of six Muslim-majority countries and suspending the U.S. refugee program.
A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against the administration unanimously. Their ruling is another blow to Trump — although the administration has asked the Supreme Court to to step in and save the ban in a different case. Continue reading “Federal appeals court upholds freeze on Trump’s travel ban”
The following article by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd was posted on the Washington Post website February 8, 2017:
People protest President Trump’s travel ban order at Washington Dulles International Airport on Jan. 28. (Yeganeh Torbati/Reuters)
President Trump’s executive order on immigration has a clause that is supposed to protect religious minorities. Trump has made clear he has in mind primarily Christians from the Middle East. If implemented, individuals who can show evidence of being persecuted as Christian will qualify for a fast lane into the United States.
It would also mean that immigration officials would have to hone their theological skills — because they will be in charge of determining who belongs to what religion. Many commentators have noted the constitutional problems with administering a “religious test.” But the practical and theological problems are equally daunting.
Would U.S. definitions for “real” membership in each religion violate the Establishment Clause?
Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday that all travel from Ireland and the United Kingdom to the U.S. will be suspended, effective midnight EST on Monday. He said Americans and legal residents abroad in those countries can return home.
