Supreme Court lets Trump ban on most refugees stand
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees.
The justices on Tuesday agreed to an administration request to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the refugee ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the country before the end of October.
The order was not the court's last word on the travel policy that President Donald Trump first rolled out in January. The justices are scheduled to hear arguments on Oct. 10 on the legality of the bans on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries and refugees anywhere in the world.
It's unclear, though, what will be left for the court to decide. The 90-day travel ban lapses in late September and the 120-day refugee ban will expire a month later.
The administration has yet to say whether it will seek to renew the bans, make them permanent or expand the travel ban to other countries.
Lower courts have ruled that the bans violate the Constitution and federal immigration law. The high court has agreed to review those rulings. Its intervention so far has been to evaluate what parts of the policy can take effect in the meantime.
The justices said in June that the administration could not enforce the bans against people who have a "bona fide" relationship with people or entities in the United States. The justices declined to define the required relationships more precisely.
A panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge's order that would have allowed refugees to enter the United States if a resettlement agency in the U.S. had agreed to take them in.
The administration objected, saying the relationship between refugees and resettlement agencies shouldn't count. The high court's unsigned, one-sentence order agreed with the administration, at least for now.
The appeals court also upheld another part of the judge's ruling that applies to the ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Grandparents and cousins of people already in the U.S. can't be excluded from the country under the travel ban, as the Trump administration had wanted. The administration did not ask the Supreme Court to block that part of the ruling.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/12/refugees-ban-trump-supreme-court-242629
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The high court's unsigned, one-sentence order agreed with the administration, at least for now.
So, again the Supreme Court only 30 minutes ago has, for now, prevented any "resettlement agencies" from taking in refugees. More to follow
I would hope so.
Trump said when the announced the ban that he needed a few months to "figure out what is going on" and the ban would end when vetting procedures were put in place.
It is eight months later and presumably he hasn't "figured it out" yet, not that that is a surprise.
Refugees were already vetted for two years under the Obama administration procedures. This entire exercise by Trump is a sham designed to eventually limit/end all immigration from Muslim countries and various non white countries.
"Refugees were already vetted for two years under the Obama administration procedures"
Would this be the same vetting process that Obama said was inadequate when it come to US Citizens owning firearms? Seems to me it would be easier to vet US Citizens than "refugees".
Would this be the same vetting process
Why would it be?
Good news. National security shouldn't be partisan.
Trump said when the announced the ban that he needed a few months to "figure out what is going on" and the ban would end when vetting procedures were put in place.
Yup, that's true and the ninth circuit court as well as other entities challenged his constitutional right to do it
It is eight months later and presumably he hasn't "figured it out" yet, not that that is a surprise.
Let's not forget that much of that time, his travel ban was contested
Refugees were already vetted for two years under the Obama administration procedures. This entire exercise by Trump is a sham designed to eventually limit/end all immigration from Muslim countries and various non white countries.
Sorry, We don't trust the Obama "vetting procedures". The exercise has one goal - to protect US citizens. Hopefully the President will make the ban permanent or at least extend it until we can be confident that we know who is entering the US from failed middle eastern states which enable terrorism.