{"id":10493,"date":"2017-03-10T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-travel-ban-more-us-states-launch-legal-challenges\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:38:20","slug":"trump-travel-ban-more-us-states-launch-legal-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-travel-ban-more-us-states-launch-legal-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump travel ban: More US states launch legal challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ismail Issack, father of Miski Shalle, 11, and Muzamil Shalle, 14, embraces his children at JFK airport\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/AD26\/production\/_95062344_ban_ap976.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AP<figcaption>Image caption                                      Ismail Issack embraces his children at JFK airport in New York after the travel ban delayed their reunion                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Several US states 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>New York maintains the new directive is a ban on Muslims while Washington says it is harmful to the state. Oregon and Massachusetts later also joined.<\/p>\n<p>The ban begins on 16 March, with the White House saying it is &quot;very confident&quot; of winning in court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump&#039;s original order was more expansive but it was defeated after a legal challenge initially mounted by Washington and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oregon<\/strong> - said the order hurts residents, employers, universities health care system and economy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington<\/strong> - it has &quot;same illegal motivations as the original&quot; and harms residents, although fewer than the first ban<\/p>\n<p><strong>New York<\/strong> - &quot;a Muslim ban by another name&quot;, said the attorney general<\/p>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> - new ban &quot;remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional attempt to make good on his campaign promise to implement a Muslim ban&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hawaii <\/strong>- argued it would harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students<\/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 mass 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<ul>\n<li>FBI &#039;terror probe&#039; for 300 refugees<\/li>\n<li>Will Trump&#039;s new travel ban be blocked?<\/li>\n<li>Five questions on new US travel ban<\/li>\n<li>A &#039;Trump slump&#039; for tourism?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 order 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>Though the White House has faced mounting criticism over its immigration orders, Trump supporters say the president is fulfilling his campaign promises to protect Americans. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Media caption&#039;We trust President Trump on travel ban&#039;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the other six countries on the original 27 January order, will once more be subject to a 90-day travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq has been taken off the banned list because its government has boosted visa screening and data sharing, White House officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The new directive says refugees already approved by the State Department can enter the US. It also lifts an indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees. <\/p>\n<p>Green Card holders (legal permanent residents of the US) from the named countries will not be affected.<\/p>\n<p>The new order does not give priority to religious minorities, unlike the previous directive. <\/p>\n<p>Critics of the Trump administration had argued that this was an unlawful policy showing preference to Christian refugees.<\/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 APImage caption Ismail Issack embraces his children at JFK airport in New York after the travel ban delayed their reunion Several US states have joined Hawaii in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}