The Supreme Court gave President Trump a partial victory on Monday with their decision to let part of his travel ban be implemented before the court gives an official ruling on the matter. Now the Trump administration is moving forward with implementing the travel ban.
Here are five things you need to know about it.
1. The six countries listed on the 90-day ban are Libya, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. The travel ban in January also had Iraq on the list, which was removed in this version of the ban.
2. The ban does allow for certain family members of American citizens in the aforementioned countries to enter the country. The family members allowed in are parents (including in-laws), spouses, children (including in-laws), siblings (including step and half-siblings) and fiancés. These exceptions would allow in students and workers because they “already get those visas based on relationships the administration has defined as bona fide,” according to The New York Times.
These family members are allowed in because of an injunction that the Supreme Court upheld that the travel ban should allow close family members into the country. The listed family members are who the State Department has defined as close family members.
3. The ban puts a 120-day moratorium on refugees. However, the exemption carved out for family members from the six countries applies to refugees as well.
4. Hawaii filed a motion on Thursday to expand the family carve-out in the travel ban. The state is arguing that the district court needs to rule that extended family members, such as grandparents, aunts and uncles, should be allowed in the country under the travel ban since they’re included in Hawaii’s definition of close family members.
Leftists have taken up the cause on Twitter with the #GrandparentsNotTerrorists hashtag.
5. Left-wing activists are already preparing to fight the travel ban. Via NBC News:
Meanwhile, lawyers and immigration advocates gathered at airports and monitored hotlines across the country as the revised order started taking effect.
“We have a number of civil rights and advocacy groups that are having attorneys essentially stationed at the airport between now and this evening,” Ameena Qazi, executive director of the Los Angeles branch of the National Lawyer’s Guild, told NBC News while en route to Los Angeles International Airport, where it wasn’t yet 8 p.m.
Qazi said her group was planning to have teams of attorneys and organizers at various airports over the next week as they assess the impact of the reinstated order.
Ibrahim Hooper, national spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said his organization would also have “attorneys from our chapters going to different airports around the country.” He added that the group had lawyers available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and possibly New York.
Even as the Supreme Court prepares to eventually make a final ruling, the Left is still going to fight this tooth-and-nail to appease their rabid base.