By FARHANA KHERA and JOHNATHAN J. SMITH JULY 18, 2017 Lost amid the uproar over the Trump administration’s travel restrictions on citizens from Muslim-majority countries and the impending showdown at the Supreme Court are the insidious ways that the government has already begun to impose a Muslim ban. It’s doing […]
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Federal Court Expands List of Family Not Subject to Travel Ban
14 Jul
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
On Thursday, July 13, 2017, the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Hawaii issued an order prohibiting the Trump Administration from enforcing its travel ban against additional family members not previously exempted in the Administration’s June 2017 implementation of the ban. The court expanded the list of exempted […]
By Dan Levine July 11, 2017 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that the government cannot immediately deport nearly 200 Iraqi immigrants arrested last month who argued they would face persecution if they were removed from the country. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith in Michigan said he had […]
By REUTERSJULY 11, 2017, 2:12 P.M. E.D.T BOSTON — U.S. immigration officials have detained an Iranian cancer researcher who was headed to a prominent Boston hospital to work as a scholar, a move that hospital officials protested on Tuesday. The detention of Mohsen Dehnavi, along with his wife and three […]