Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 05-12-2017
The US Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to fully enforce the third version of a controversial travel ban that prohibits people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
Al Jazeera reports that the court, with two of its nine justices dissenting, on Monday said the policy can take full effect, even as legal challenges against it make their way through the courts.
The ban applies to people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
Unveiled in September, the latest ban was immediately challenged in federal appeals courts in Richmond, Virginia and San Francisco, California.
Lower courts said in October, just a day before the ban was set to come into full effect that that, the portions of the ban should be put on hold while the challenges proceed.
But yesterday’s order by the Supreme Court suspended the lower courts’ injunctions, allowing the ban to take effect.
The ban is the third attempt by the Trump administration to restrict individuals from several countries from coming to the US.
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