President Trump’s latest travel ban was set to go into effect at midnight tonight, but U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson of Hawaii had other plans.
Watson temporarily blocked the ban from being implemented Tuesday afternoon, arguing the new version doesn’t properly address concerns of national security and therefore is still discriminatory. The ACLU sued the administration, saying Trump’s efforts to mask a “Muslim ban” by adding countries North Korea and Venezuela wouldn’t cut it.
A reminder on the details of the current and newest version of the ban:
Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet.https://t.co/KJ886okyfC
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2017
President Trump issued an executive order Sunday night expanding travel restrictions from his previous travel ban to include additional countries.
Sudan has been dropped from the original travel ban list, while Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia remain. North Korea, Chad and Venezuela have been added with varying levels of vetting and restrictions for each country. Citizens traveling from North Korea and Venezuela are not affected, only government officials.
According to the White House, a new “baseline for information sharing to support visa and immigration vetting determinations” has been established, requiring that foreign governments bolster identity management, issue secure passports, identify serious criminals, provide information on known or suspected terrorists and more.
The White House and the Department of Justice will no doubt push back on the decision.
(First reported by Townhall News) https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/10/17/president-trumps-newest-travel-ban-has-just-been-blocked-by-a-federal-judge-n2396409 (October 17, 2017)
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