Vissa flyktingar kan resa in i USA trots inreseförbud
USA:s president Donald Trumps inreseförbud har drabbats av ytterligare ett bakslag. Den här gången är det en amerikansk appellationsdomstol som sätter sig emot den omstridda presidentordern.
De tre domarna avvisade Trumpadministrationens ansträngning att tillfälligt stoppa de flesta flyktingar från att komma in i landet och fastslår att de som har kontakt med ett bosättningsorgan bör undantas från presidentordern.
Appellationsdomstolen fastslår även att regeringen inte har gett en övertygande förklaring till varför förbudet ska innefatta morföräldrar, barnbarn, mostrar, farbröder, syskonbarn och kusiner till amerikanska invånare från de sex länderna.
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Wikipedia (en)
Executive Order 13780, titled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, is an executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump on March 6, 2017, that places limits on travel to the U.S. from certain countries, and by all refugees who do not possess either a visa or valid travel documents. According to its terms on March 16, 2017, this executive order revoked and replaced Executive Order 13769 issued January 27, 2017. Trump has called the new order a "watered down, politically correct version" of the prior executive order.
On March 15, 2017, Judge Derrick Watson of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order enjoining the government from enforcing several key provisions of the order (Sections 2 and 6). By taking into account evidence beyond the words of the executive order itself, the judge reasoned the executive order was likely motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment and thus breached the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution. On the same date, Judge Theodore Chuang of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland reached a similar conclusion (enjoining Section 2(c) only). The Department of Justice stated that it "will continue to defend [the] Executive Order in the courts". Shortly following arguments from the State of Hawaii and the Department of Justice, the restraining order was converted by Watson into an indefinite preliminary injunction on March 29. The federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, refused on May 25, 2017 to reinstate the ban, citing religious discrimination. On June 1, 2017, the Trump administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for the cancellation of the preliminary injunctions and to allow the order to go into effect while the court looks at its ultimate legality later in the year.
On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court partially lifted the halt and will hear oral arguments for the petition to vacate the injunctions in the fall.
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