The Trump administration has filed a brief in federal court that defends the guidelines it created to allow implementation of the president’s limping travel ban order — some of these guidelines include barring grandparents from affected nations from entering the United States, Politico reports.
Before Hawaii District Court Judge Derrick Watson, the Justice Department, argued that it’s reading of a Supreme Court order was rooted in federal immigration law. The administration wrote; “The Supreme Court’s decision construing the Executive Order must also be read as having that touchstone in mind, not the broader, free-hand rules now constructed by Plaintiffs”.
The long contested travel ban bars new visas to six majority-Muslim nations for 90 days and refugees for 120 days except they can prove “bona fide relationship” to a person or entity in the United States. The Supreme Court granted the travel ban, allowing it to go into partial effect, Thursday.
According to the Supreme Court, “bona fide” relationship” was a close family member, an employer, or a school. The Trump administration ran with this and then created their own additional guidelines, which allows parents, spouses, and children of someone in the U.S, but excluded grandparents and grandchildren.
Still, with the change, the revised travel ban opponents consider the administration’s definition of a “bona fide” relationship to be too narrow. The plaintiffs in the case are scheduled to file a brief Thursday.
Leave a reply