Judge orders relaxation of Trump travel ban
A judge has ruled that the President Trump’s travel ban must be relaxed to include wider members of family.
The ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries and on refugees did not count grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces and cousins as ‘bona fide’ family members.
But an order by District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii ordered that these family ties should now be accepted, arguing that the ban had interpreted a Supreme Court ruling too narrowly.
“Common sense, for instance, dictates that close family members be defined to include grandparents. Indeed, grandparents are the epitome of close family members”, he wrote.
The Supreme Court is still considering the current version of the ban, which includes travel to the US from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
It allowed a temporary ban to come into effect in June, pending a full judgement in October.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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