{"id":10186,"date":"2017-03-09T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/more-us-states-challenge-trump-travel-ban\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:16:29","slug":"more-us-states-challenge-trump-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/more-us-states-challenge-trump-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"More US states challenge Trump travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Protesters outside the White House after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on a revised travel ban.\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/316F\/production\/_95055621_5567cfcd-8f73-4287-a173-426616f61310.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  EPA                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The US states of Washington and New York have joined Hawaii in a legal challenge against President Donald Trump&#039;s revised travel ban. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump signed an executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim countries on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>But lawyers for both states argue that an existing injunction against Mr Trump&#039;s first ban remains in place.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota and Oregon are reportedly also filing lawsuits seeking to block the ban, which begins on 16 March. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US &#039;may split families that cross border&#039;<\/li>\n<li>FBI &#039;terror probe&#039; for 300 refugees<\/li>\n<li>Detained Afghan family set for release<\/li>\n<li>Will Trump&#039;s new travel ban be blocked?<\/li>\n<li>Five questions on new US travel ban<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest directive removed Iraq from a previous list of targeted countries after its government agreed to additional visa vetting measures. <\/p>\n<p>The revised ban bars new visas for people from: Somalia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen. It also temporarily blocks all refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The previous order, which Mr Trump signed in January, was blocked in federal courts and sparked protests as well as confusion at airports. <\/p>\n<p>But critics maintain the revised travel ban discriminates against Muslims. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Media captionNew US travel ban: What&#039;s different?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&quot;President Trump&#039;s latest executive order is a Muslim Ban by another name, imposing policies and protocols that once again violate the Equal Protection Clause and Establishment Clause of the United State Constitution,&quot; said New York Attorney General Eric T Schneiderman after announcing his legal challenge. <\/p>\n<p>Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who was the first to sue over the original ban, said he would ask a federal judge to rule that the temporary restraining halting the first travel ban &quot;remains in effect&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;re asserting that the president cannot unilaterally declare himself free of the court&#039;s restraining order and injunction,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-39225773 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright EPA The US states of Washington and New York have joined Hawaii in a legal challenge against President Donald Trump&#039;s revised travel ban. 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