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Third Travel Ban Partially Ok’ed by Federal Court

On Monday, a panel of judges in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed a version of the Trump Administration’s third travel ban to take effect.  The proposed ban, which was originally slated to take effect last month, sought to bar many kinds of travelers from eight countries, including those from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.    Before itcould take effect, suits were filed against the Administration in the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit.

In their decision, the judges ruled that the government could implement the ban but not on those individuals with “a bona fide relationship with a person or an entity in the United States.”  The appeal in the Fourth Circuit has not yet been heard.

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