New Trump Travel Ban Coming Next Week

Bob Ferguson. the Washington state attorney general who led the court challenge to the original Trump order, said the administration’s latest moves amount to “conceding defeat”.

The executive order had also banned us entry of those fleeing war-torn Syria indefinitely, and had banned the admission of all refugees for the next four months. Litigants around the country said they will carefully examine any new policy to see if it raises similar constitutional issues and will continue to pursue legal action if necessary.

During his first solo press conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced plans for a new immigration executive action. “Got a bad decision”, he said. “The Order is ambiguous in this respect and, at the time it was issued, was reasonably interpreted to encompass LPRs”. “The White House counsel is not the President, and he is not known to be in the chain of command for any of the Executive Departments”, the panel said in its unanimous ruling.

A federal judge’s ruling on February 3 haltedenforcement of the executive order, and on February 9, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department’s request to lift that stay. Trump was perfectly correct legally, but he could have executed better, and we hoped he’d skip the next appeal and craft a better order.

“The panel’s decision is based on a misunderstanding of the scope of the order”, the department said, adding the travel ban only applied to “aliens who have never entered this country”.

“The government has pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States”, the court noted. Moreover, the order prohibited refugees from entering the United States for 120 days and barred indefinitely Syrian refugees indefinitely.

The administration may have decided that the chances of success at the Supreme Court are poor.

The states’ due process claim was strong enough to justify denying an emergency stay, the court said. It seems to me that Din does not resolve the issue either way.

On Feb. 3, U.S. District Court Judge James Robart placed a nationwide restraining order on the directive’s travel ban. Reports have the administration pulling back after the court’s ruling and hinting at possibly redrafting the executive order with different wording. Perhaps the revised order will flesh out this provision by offering examples of which visitors may qualify.

Trump on Thursday nevertheless hailed the introduction of the travel ban as smooth.

He had also promised to introduce “additional national security measures”, and this might well include following the lead of Germany, and requiring at least some suspicious immigrants to wear Global Positioning System ankle monitors so they can easily and inexpensively be monitored, says Banzhaf.

Green card holders were detained, and law enforcement officials were unsure of what to do with travelers who were in the air as the order was signed.