New travel ban to start TONIGHT at 8 ET

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WASHINGTON — Stepsiblings and half-siblings are allowed, but not nieces or nephews. Sons- and daughters-in-law are in, but brothers- and sisters-in-law are not. Parents, including in-laws, are considered “close family,” but grandparents are not.

The State Department issued new guidelines Wednesday night to American embassies and consulates on applying a limited travel ban against foreign visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries. Enforcement of the guidelines will begin at 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.

The guidelines followed the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to allow parts of the Trump administration’s revised travel ban to move forward, while also imposing certain limits, as the court prepares to hear arguments in October on the scope of presidential power over border security and immigration.

The court said the ban could not be imposed on anyone who had “a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

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A bona fide relationship with a “U.S. entity,” according to the cable, “must be formal, documented, and formed in the ordinary course, rather than for the purpose of evading the E.O.,” or executive order.

The new guidelines make clear that someone who has accepted a job offer from a company in the United States or an invitation to deliver a lecture at an American university may enter, but that a nonprofit group may not seek out citizens of the affected countries and count them as clients for the purpose of getting around the ban.

“Also, a hotel reservation, whether or not paid, would not constitute a bona fide relationship with an entity in the United States,” the guidelines note.

Immigration rights advocates who had challenged the travel ban in court said the ruling this week meant the vast majority of people seeking to enter the United States to visit a relative, accept a job, attend a university or deliver a speech would still be able to do so.

But Omar Jadwat, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s immigrants’ rights project, said on Thursday the new guidelines troubled him, particularly as they could be read as creating arbitrary definitions of family relationships.

“Initial reports suggest that the government may try to unilaterally expand the scope of the ban — for example, by arbitrarily refusing to treat certain categories of familial relationships as ‘bona fide,’ ” he said. “These reports are deeply concerning.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/us/politics/homeland-security-prepares-to-issue-travel-restrictions.html

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Suzy Arlington, Virginia 4 hours ago

45's people are saying that if my sister and her husband in Syria got blown up and left three children behind, the children couldn't come to America to live with me. But if my father's third wife's son wanted to come and live with me, that would be ok? 

[Edonis 28,974]

This is such a joke 

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

I hope we can ban Trump from entering the EU

 

[Nene Areola 1,152]

1 minute ago, Derpplause said:

I hope we can ban Trump from entering the EU

 

It's not like he's going there to do anything related to agreements anyways 

[Yuuri 21,636]

America Queen of being founded by immigrants then several hundred years later banning immigrants. When will your country be as dumb as ours?

[Michelle 2,056]

Ugh sometimes I'm not sure how much more I can take from this orange Buffon. What a ****ing embarrassment of a human. 

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I just don't get how someone's grandparent's aren't close family?  

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I can see how a fiance is not a bonafide relationship with a US person, since people could always lie about that sort of thing, but nieces and nephews? 

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[LetsGetHigh 52,683]

Good luck

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

America cancelled. 

Can't believe the times we are living in  

Democrats better get there **** together and get a president in office. Trump can't have a second term and we can't afford 4 more years of Republican nonsense  

[DeleteMyAccount 11,881]

Yea, because banning people is going to solve the problems.... People who have been captured have told us intel that specifically points out how to stop ISIS. This ban will probably make things worse by keeping innocent people stranded in those countries in the MENA.

[Morphine Prince 109,645]

The requirements for entry are so ridiculous. Only an administration like Trump's could implement something as dumb as this.