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USDC Hawaii's Modification of Travel Ban Injunction Stayed In Part

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On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court granted in part the Government's request to stay the injunctions against enforcement of the travel ban for nationals of six countries.  The court left the injunction in effect for, among others, persons with "a close familial relationship" with a person in the United States.  How close is "close"?  The Supreme Court did not say.

The Government's interpretation was largely along the lines of family relationships that Congress has designated as close enough to file an application for a family-based immigration petition, which seemed sensible to me.  The U.S. District Court did not think so and modified its injunction to include "grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States."  Sounds like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan

The District Court also enjoined application of the Executive Order to two classes of refugees, those who "(i) have a formal assurance from an agency within the United States that the agency will provide, or ensure the provision of, reception and placement services to that refugee; or (ii) are in the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program through the Lautenberg Program."

Acting swiftly in response to a petition by the Government, the Court issued this order:

The Government's motion seeking clarification of our order of June 26, 2017, is denied. The District Court order modifying the preliminary injunction with respect to refugees covered by a formal assurance is stayed pending resolution of the Government's appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Gorsuch would have stayed the District Court order in its entirety.
Hmmm.  The District Court's furthest stretch, to refugees who merely have an assurance from an agency but no other contact within the U.S., is stayed, but the rest remains in force.  This is the Supreme Court that our Politically Correct academia keeps telling us is "conservative."

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I'd love to know what right a person has to cross our border merely because that person is a grandparent of someone who is here.

The imperial judiciary lives.

The next challenge will occur when the administration has the temerity to require actual proof of such tenuous relationships-such as a birth certificate, etc.

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