Sunday, 12 February 2017
According to figures provided by the Department of
Homeland Security, approximately 3,000 people from the seven countries
listed in President Donald Trump's travel ban were allowed to enter the
US between February 4 and February 6, 2017.
Trump
signed an executive order last month barring foreign nationals from
Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Yemen from entering the
country for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days, and all refugees from
Syria indefinitely.
But
a federal appeal court ruled that Trump's travel ban will remain
blocked after an earlier court raised concerns about the
constitutionality of the ban among other things. The unanimous ruling
from the three-judge panel means citizens of the seven majority-Muslim
countries were able to travel to the US, despite Trump's executive
order.
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