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U.S. appeals court keeps Trump’s travel ban relaxed

08 September 2017 [17:00] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Ali Mustafayev

A Federal Appeals Court denied the Trump administration’s request to block more travelers from six Muslim-majority nations and permitted all vetted refugees to be admitted.

The September 7- decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals could significantly decrease the number of people stopped from traveling to the U.S. under President Trump’s travel ban.

The ban currently halts nearly all refugee resettlement and travel by foreign nationals from six mostly Muslim countries unless they have close connections in the U.S.

The ban approved in January 2017 barred travel to the U.S. by nationals from Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Iran for 90 days and stopped all refugee resettlement for 120 days.

Trump also more than halved the number of refugees who could eventually be admitted in 2017 to 50,000 from the 110,000 cap established under former President Barack Obama.

Federal appeals courts had blocked the ban until June, when the Supreme Court said it could take effect as long as it did not stop travel of anyone with a “bona fide” relationship to the U.S.

The ban policy of Donald Trump led to mass demonstrations of opposing people throughout the country.

The panel of judges did not decide whether the ban is legal. That question is left to the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear arguments over the issue on October 10.

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